The Phenomenon of Science
豆瓣
a cybernetic approach to human evolution
Valentin Fedorovich Turchin
简介
宇宙演化的控制论原理，它基于元系统跃迁（Metasystem Transition）的概念，从单细胞有机体到文化和社会，最终到“超级生命”（super-being）的出现。
目录
Chapter 1 The Initial Stages of Evolution
Chapter 2 Hierarchical Structures
Chapter 3 On the Path toward the Human Being
Chapter 4 The Human Being
Chapter 5 From Step to Step
Chapter 6 Logical Analysis of Language
-- about concepts again
-- attributes and relations
-- Hegel's dialectic
-- mathematical logic
-- objects and statements
-- logical connectives
-- predicates
-- quantifiers
-- the connective 'such that'
-- the physical object and logical object
-- functions
-- syntax and semantics
-- logical analysis of language
Chapter 7 Language and Thinking
Chapter 8 Primitive Thinking
Chapter 9 Mathematics before the Greek
Chapter 10 From Thales to Euclid
Chapter 11 From Euclid to Descartes
Chapter 12 From Descartes to Bourbaki
Chapter 13 Science and Metascience
Chapter 14 The Phenomenon of Science