邁克爾·R·多夫 (Michael R. Dove耶魯大學人類學家 ) 主張採用一種結合民間智慧和科學知識的自然歷史研究方法，作為幫助反駁科學懷疑論的方法Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History

 Q&A: Yale anthropologist Michael Dove discusses his new book, which argues for an approach to the study of natural history that incorporates both folk wisdom and scientific knowledge as a way to help counter skepticism of science: bit.ly/41MCKfF #Yale

Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History

• 作者： Dove, Michael R.
• 原文出版社：Yale University Press
• 出版日期：2024

問與答：耶魯大學人類學家 Michael Dove 討論他的新書，該書主張採用一種結合民間智慧和科學知識的自然歷史研究方法，作為幫助反駁科學懷疑論的方法：

內容簡介

This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped with the historic distancing of scientific knowledge from folk knowledge

For millennia, the field of natural history promoted a knowledgeable and unifying view of the world. In contrast, the modern rise of narrow scientific disciplines has promoted a dichotomy between nature and culture on the one hand and between scientific and folk knowledge on the other. Drawing on the fields of anthropology, history, and environmental science, Michael R. Dove argues that the loss of this historic holistic vision of the world is partly to blame for contemporary environmental degradation and science skepticism.

Dove bases this thesis on a study of four pioneering natural historians across four centuries: Georg Eberhard Rumphius (seventeenth century), Carl Linnaeus (eighteenth century), Alfred Russel Wallace (nineteenth century), and Harold C. Conklin (twentieth century). Dove studies their field craft and writing; the political, cultural, and environmental circumstances in which they worked; the sources of their insight; and the implications of their work for modern society. Most of all, the book seeks to discover what enabled those natural historians to straddle boundaries that today seem impassable and to distill that wisdom for a modern world greatly in need of a holistic vision of people and environment.

 內容簡介

這部自然史編年史認為，現代環境危機和科學懷疑論的興起是與科學知識與民間知識的歷史性疏離共同發展的

幾千年來，自然史領域促進了知識淵博且統一的世界觀。相較之下，狹隘科學學科的現代興起一方面促進了自然與文化之間的二分法，另一方面也促進了科學與民間知識之間的二分法。邁克爾·R·多夫 (Michael R. Dove) 借鑒人類學、歷史學和環境科學領域的經驗，認為這種歷史性的整體世界觀的喪失是當代環境退化和科學懷疑論的部分原因。

多夫的這篇論文是基於對四個世紀的四位先驅自然歷史學家的研究：喬治·埃伯哈德·魯菲烏斯（Georg Eberhard Rumphius）（十七世紀）、卡爾·林奈（Carl Linnaeus）（十八世紀）、阿爾弗雷德·拉塞爾·華萊士（Alfred Russel Wallace）（十九世紀）和哈羅德·C·康克林（Harold C. Conklin）（二十世紀）。多夫研究他們的野外技巧和寫作；他們工作的政治、文化和環境環境；他們洞察力的來源；以及他們的工作對現代社會的影響。最重要的是，這本書試圖發現是什麼讓這些自然史學家能夠跨越今天看來無法逾越的界限，並為一個非常需要對人與環境進行整體視野的現代世界提煉出這種智慧。

作者簡介

邁克爾·R·多夫 (Michael R. Dove) 是耶魯大學社會生態學瑪格麗特·K·穆瑟 (Margaret K. Musser) 教授；人類學教授兼館長；以及《苦澀陰影：人類意識的生態挑戰》一書的作者。他在亞洲進行了數十年的實地研究，現在住在康乃狄克州基林沃斯。

作者簡介

Michael R. Dove is the Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology at Yale University; professor and curator of anthropology; and author of Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness. He has carried out decades of field research in Asia and now lives in Killingworth, CT.

所有心情：

555555