杰西卡·里斯金（Jessica Riskin），先后毕业于哈佛大学和加州大学伯克利分校，曾任教于麻省理工学院和巴黎政治学院，现在斯坦福大学教授欧洲史和科学史。研究方向包括早期现代科学、政治文化和科学解释史。所著《感性时代的科学》获得美国历史学会的J.拉塞尔·梅杰奖。里斯金认为，自现代科学诞生以来，生命模型之争就从未停止，它极大影响着当今进化生物学、认知科学和人工智能领域的发展。

Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants pursue sunlight. This has not always been the case, nor, perhaps, was it inevit...(展开全部)

杰西卡·里斯金（Jessica Riskin），先后毕业于哈佛大学和加州大学伯克利分校，曾任教于麻省理工学院和巴黎政治学院，现在斯坦福大学教授欧洲史和科学史。研究方向包括早期现代科学、政治文化和科学解释史。所著《感性时代的科学》获得美国历史学会的J.拉塞尔·梅杰奖。里斯金认为，自现代科学诞生以来，生命模型之争就从未停止，它极大影响着当今进化生物学、认知科学和人工智能领域的发展。

Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants pursue sunlight. This has not always been the case, nor, perhaps, was it inevit...(展开全部)

Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of attorney in connection with the property of her late husband, a carpenter on the island of Grenada, and a prenuptial contract ...(展开全部)

Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of attorney in connection with the property of her late husband, a carpenter on the island of Grenada, and a prenuptial contract ...(展开全部)

本书出自国际知名的设计心理学专家之手，内容实用、示例清晰，以创造直观而又有吸引力的设计为宗旨，讨论了100个设计师必须知道的心理学问题，每个问题短小精悍，片刻即可读完，让人轻轻松松地理解设计背后的心理学动机。

本书出自国际知名的设计心理学专家之手，内容实用、示例清晰，以创造直观而又有吸引力的设计为宗旨，讨论了100个设计师必须知道的心理学问题，每个问题短小精悍，片刻即可读完，让人轻轻松松地理解设计背后的心理学动机。

What Makes a Social Crisis? The Societalization of Social Problems Jeffrey C. Alexander In this book, Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis, which he calls societalization. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by the discourse and institutions of the civil sphere. In the steady state, reactions to strains unfold...(展开全部)

Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods and misinformation. Leading politicians and scholars have argued that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that most terrorists come from middle-class, and often college-educated, backgrounds. In What Makes a Terrorist, Alan Krueger argues t...(展开全部)