Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another pdf

菲利普·鲍尔是一位自由科学作家。他之前在 Nature 工作了 20 多年，首先担任物理科学编辑（他的简介从生物化学扩展到量子物理和材料科学），然后担任顾问编辑。他为大众媒体撰写的关于科学的著作涵盖了从宇宙学到分子生物学的未来等热点问题。 菲利普是许多关于科学的流行书籍的作者，包括关于水的性质、自然界中的图案形成、艺术中的色彩、社会和政治哲学科学、音乐认知和纳粹德国物理学的著作。他撰写了大量关于艺术与科学之间相互作用的文章，并在维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆（伦敦）、美国宇航局艾姆斯研究中心、伦敦国家剧院和伦敦经济学院等场所向科学和普通观众发表了演讲。 菲利普继续定期为《自然》撰稿。他为《新科学家》、《纽约时报》、《卫报》、《金融时报》和《新政治家》等出版物做出了贡献。他是《展望》杂志的特约编辑（他为此撰写了一个科学博客），同时也是《化学世界》、《自然材料》和意大利科学杂志 Sapere 的专栏作家。他曾多次在广播和电视上播出，并且是 BBC Radio 4 的“科学故事”节目主持人。他是英国皇家化学学会会士，是《化学世界》和《跨学科科学评论》的编委，以及是波鸿鲁尔大学溶剂化科学 RESOLV 网络的董事会成员。 Philip 拥有牛津大学化学学士学位和布里斯托大学物理学博士学位。 菲利普鲍尔是一位作家。他的大部分书都以某种形式关注科学：它的历史、它与艺术和社会的互动、它的成就、乐趣和弯路。他是几家杂志的固定专栏作家，偶尔也是电台主持人和广播员。他多年来一直是《自然》杂志的编辑，很久以前，他还是化学家和物理学家。

Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another pdf 菲利普·鲍尔

Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based not on utopian wishful thinking but rather on Galileo's mechanics to construct a theory of government from first principles. His solution is unappealing to today's society, yet Hobbes had sparked a new way of thinking about human behavior in looking for the "scientific" rules of society. Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Auguste Comte, and John Stuart Mill pursued this idea from different political perspectives. Little by little, however, social and political philosophy abandoned a "scientific" approach. Today, physics is enjoying a revival in the social, political and economic sciences. Ball shows how much we can understand of human behavior when we cease to try to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions-whether in circumstances of cooperation or conflict-can have on our laws, institutions and customs. Lively and compelling, Critical Mass is the first book to bring these new ideas together and to show how they fit within the broader historical context of a rational search for better ways to live.