This is a hugely important book that rediscovers three crucial, but long overlooked themes in German idealism: mythology, madness and laughter. "Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism" explores some long neglected but crucial themes in German idealism. Markus Gabriel, one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary philosophy, and Slavoj Zizek, the celebrated contemporary philosopher and cultural critic, show how these themes impact on the problematic relations between being and appearance, reflection and the absolute, insight and ideology, contingency and necessity, subjectivity, truth, habit and freedom. Engaging with three central figures of the German idealist movement, Hegel, Schelling and Fichte, Gabriel and Zizek, who here shows himself to be one of the most erudite and important scholars of German idealism, ask how is it possible for Being to appear in reflection without falling back into traditional metaphysics. By applying idealistic theories of reflection and concrete subjectivity, including the problem of madness and everydayness in Hegel, this hugely important book aims to reinvigorate a philosophy of finitude and contingency, topics at the forefront of contemporary European philosophy.

The study of concepts has advanced dramatically in recent years, with exciting new findings and theoretical developments. Core concepts have been investigated in greater depth and new lines of inquiry have blossomed, with researchers from an ever broader range of disciplines making important contributions. In this volume, leading philosophers and cognitive scientists offer original essays that present the state-of-the-art in the study of concepts. These essays, all commissioned for this book, do not merely present the usual surveys and overviews; rather, they offer the latest work on concepts by a diverse group of theorists as well as discussions of the ideas that should guide research over the next decade. The book is an essential companion volume to the earlier Concepts: Core Readings, the definitive source for classic texts on the nature of concepts.
The essays cover concepts as they relate to animal cognition, the brain, evolution, perception, and language, concepts across cultures, concept acquisition and conceptual change, concepts and normativity, concepts in context, and conceptual individuation. The contributors include such prominent scholars as Susan Carey, Nicola Clayton, Jerry Fodor, Douglas Medin, Joshua Tenenbaum, and Anna Wierzbicka.

The Philosophy of Death is a discussion of the basic philosophical issues concerning death, and a critical introduction to the relevant contemporary philosophical literature. Luper begins by addressing questions about those who die: What is it to be alive? What does it mean for you and me to exist? Under what conditions do we persist over time, and when do we perish? Next, he considers several questions concerning death, including: What does dying consist in; in particular, how does it differ from ageing? Must death be permanent? By what signs may it be identified? Is death bad for the one who dies? If so why? Finally he discusses whether, and why, killing is morally objectionable, and suggests that it is often permissible; in particular, (assisted) suicide, euthanasia and abortion may all be morally permissible. His book is a lively and engaging philosophical treatment of a perennially fascinating and relevant subject.

影片承接《黑客帝国3：矩阵革命》的故事，尼奥（基努·里维斯 Keanu Reeves 饰）和崔妮蒂（凯瑞-安·莫斯 Carrie-Anne Moss 饰）联手归来，继续与AI世界的机械大军展开对抗。在这里，一个是矩阵创造出来，周而复始的日常世界，另一个则是隐藏其后，真实的人类世界。为了弄清楚自己所处的“现实”究竟是真是假，尼奥不得不再次做出选择。

《佛学反对对象性思维》是一本唯识学研究专著。主要以对象性思瞄与反对，象性思维的张力为主线，考察了自然、巫术、实体等思维中的对象性思维根源及佛学反对它们的合理性，同时提请重视“现在”概念，以突出唯识学的反对象性思维主张。《佛学反对对象性思维》由常峥嵘著。

A ground-breaking innovation in epistemology
Moss shows how the idea of probabilistic knowledge and belief illuminates issues in many areas of philosophy
Traditional philosophical discussions of knowledge have focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs. Sarah Moss argues that in addition to full beliefs, credences can constitute knowledge. For instance, your 0.4 credence that it is raining outside can constitute knowledge, in just the same way that your full beliefs can. In addition, you can know that it might be raining, and that if it is raining then it is probably cloudy, where this knowledge is not knowledge of propositions, but of probabilistic contents.
The notion of probabilistic content introduced in this book plays a central role not only in epistemology, but in the philosophy of mind and language as well. Just as tradition holds that you believe and assert propositions, you can believe and assert probabilistic contents. Accepting that we can believe, assert, and know probabilistic contents has significant consequences for many philosophical debates, including debates about the relationship between full belief and credence, the semantics of epistemic modals and conditionals, the contents of perceptual experience, peer disagreement, pragmatic encroachment, perceptual dogmatism, and transformative experience. In addition, accepting probabilistic knowledge can help us discredit negative evaluations of female speech, explain why merely statistical evidence is insufficient for legal proof, and identify epistemic norms violated by acts of racial profiling. Hence the central theses of this book not only help us better understand the nature of our own mental states, but also help us better understand the nature of our responsibilities to each other.

根据现代汉语的语法分类，系词“是”是一个非常特殊的词，它既不同 一般的词 ，也不同 一般的语法词。语法词舆词 词相对，是以语羲和语法功能祗 的一种分类。语法词没有实羲，祗有语法意羲或功能意羲或功能意羲；词 词具有具 实在的意羲。由 语法词和词 词舆汉语早期纯粹根据语羲的虚实所分的虚词和实词大致相 ，因此，语法词常常被直接看成虚词。汉语的系词“是”没有实在间羲，这一点舆虚词的特点相符；但虚词的一个重要语法特 是不能单独句子成分，而系词“是”却主要作述语，这一点又舆虚词的特点不符合。鉴 系词是“是”主要作带 述语，语法功能舆及物 词相同，语法学界将它 入 词；但它没有具 意羲，又舆其他 词很不同，因此历史上曾被 祗“同 词”。
本书将把它作为语法词看待，并将运用相应的语法理论来对它近行研究。

In the last 60 years, the use of the notion of category has led to a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Conceptual Mathematics, Second Edition, introduces the concept of ’category’ for the learning, development, and use of mathematics, to both beginning students and general readers, and to practicing mathematical scientists. The treatment does not presuppose knowledge of specific fields, but rather develops, from basic definitions, such elementary categories as discrete dynamical systems and directed graphs; the fundamental ideas are then illuminated by examples in these categories.

《伊洛渊源录》，十四卷，宋朱熹著。此次校点整理以上海图书馆藏元至正九年刻本为底本，以日本文政七年刻本、浙江图书馆藏明成化年间刻本为校本。整理者为戴扬本。
《道命录》，南宋学者李心传撰。此次整理，以续修四库全书影印北京大学图书馆藏清影元刻本为底本，参校北京图书馆藏明刻本。同时书稿照録《永乐大典》本作为附录。是首次校点整理。校点者袁良勇。
《考亭渊源录》，明代学者宋端仪撰。此次校点以"隆庆本"为底本，校点者还参考了《宋史》、《晦庵集》、《朱子语类》等十余种重要文献典籍。该书为首次整理本，由彭荣先生校点。

《制度经济学的演化:美国制度主义中的能动性、结构和达尔文主义》是著名经济学家杰弗里.M.霍奇逊2004年的著作，它不仅详细地梳理了美国制度主义思潮的演化历程，而且包含了制度与演化分析的最前沿思想，包含了达尔文主义和维多利亚时期社会科学、凡勃伦的制度主义、重构制度经济学等，同时还对制度主义经典思想分别作了阐述。
简要地说，《制度经济学的演化:美国制度主义中的能动性、结构和达尔文主义》的内容可以按如下几条主线理解。第一，以凡勃伦制度主义为标尺，在回顾美国制度主义历史的同时对各时期的代表人物进行了点评。第二，以达尔文主义为线索，反复强调了科学研究中的累计因果原则，并就生物学和经济学、社会学的关系进行了分析。第三，以涌现哲学为线索，反复强调了层级本体论的重要性，并就此对科学研究中的还原论（更具体地说，是对解释性的还原论）进行了批评。
《制度经济学的演化:美国制度主义中的能动性、结构和达尔文主义》的结构非常清晰。第一部分提出了基本的方法论问题并表明了观点，这些问题在后面的部分中会反复出现。第二部分则就社会科学中的演化思想进行了溯源，尤其是对多层演化论进行了分析，并就涌现哲学、层级本体论等问题进行了系统的讨论。对于读者来说，这两部分的内容对理解全书起着基础性作用。第三部分全面评述了凡勃伦的工作，关于凡勃伦制度主义的讨论也集中在这一部分。第四部分则是对康芒斯、艾尔斯等美国制度主义者的评述，并就美国制度主义衰落的原因进行了讨论。第五部分是就凡勃伦制度主义复兴的讨论，其中第20章可以说是作者对能动性与结构之间的向上和向下因果关系理论的一种发展。

Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools -- theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning -- to investigate how meaning and communication develop. He shows how signaling games themselves evolve, and introduces a new model of learning with invention. The juxtaposition of atomic signals leads to complex signals, as the natural product of gradual process. Signals operate in networks of senders and receivers at all levels of life. Information is transmitted, but it is also processed in various ways. That is how we think -- signals run around a very complicated signaling network. Signaling is a key ingredient in the evolution of teamwork, in the human but also in the animal world, even in micro-organisms. Communication and co-ordination of action are different aspects of the flow of information, and are both effected by signals.

本書作者運用社會人類學的方法，從佛教的「意識形態」、「儀式」、「僧伽制度」等角度，切入流通在緬甸的上座部佛教，而在「佛教與世界」篇中作最後的評論。閱讀本書可以對照出原始佛教規範性教理實現於人間時所產生的變遷。不論是佛陀弟子想瞭解自己所信解的是怎樣的佛教，或是一般把佛教當成人類社會中文化之一的人，要瞭解這影響世界很大地區人口的宗教文化，它都提供一個探究的入口。
我們之所以引介此書，就因為它看待佛教的角度、它的研究方法，直到四十年後的今天仍然歷久彌新。而作者本身對人類學的關懷：佛教教理及信眾間的互動關係，也非常值得參考。閱讀本書並模擬本書的作法，對我們生存的佛教空間，必能更深入體解，也更能掌握。相信對弘揚佛法、延續慧命，助益良多。

In Kafka Deleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditional readings that see in Kafka's work a case of Oedipalized neurosis or a flight into transcendence, guilt, and subjectivity, Deleuze and Guattari make a case for Kafka as a man of joy, a promoter of radical politics who resisted at every turn submission to frozen hierarchies.

本书是《斯宾诺莎文集》第1卷，含斯宾诺莎的两部著作：《简论上帝、人及其心灵健康》和《知性改进论》。《简论上帝、人及其心灵健康》分为两卷和两个附录，第一卷为“论上帝”，第二卷为“论人和属于人的东西”，附录一为“论实体、自然、上帝”，附录二为”论人的心灵。第一卷有十章内容，对上帝的存在、上帝是什么、上帝的作用等问题进行了论述；第二卷有二十八章内容，阐明了他关于人的境况的看法，对人如何受被动感情的影响、人的理性的御用以及用什么方法能够达到人的康乐和最完善的自由等问题进行了阐述。《知性改进论》是斯宾诺莎关于方法论和认识论的著作。

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity—all are encompassed in this volume.

This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. Eliade's vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled. In addition to reviewing recent interpretations of the individual traditions, he explores the interactions of the three religions and shows their continuing mutual influence to be subtle but unmistakable.

"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . . . Everyo ne who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."--Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review
‘A History of Religious Ideas, volume 1 will arouse the interest of all historians of western religion, since it includes chapters on the religions of Canaan and Israel. However, the book must be read cover to cover if one wants to grasp the significance of its gigantic historical scope...Not only has the work unity through Eliade's authorship, but it lays the foundation of the history of religious' edifice of which he has been one of the principal architects.' --Kees W. Bolle, Church History.

从1810年开始构思写作的《世界时代》是谢林自许的其整个哲学的“代表作”（Magnum Opus），尽管这部著作在他活着的时候从未以完整成书的形式出版。在长达十八年的时间里，谢林一直试图以“世界时代”的形式对自己的哲学体系作出最终的决定性的阐述，并为此创作了二十多份不同的书稿。这个计划最终搁浅，“世界时代哲学”逐渐演变成了后来的“否定哲学-肯定哲学”或“神话哲学-天启哲学”的奠基性导论。谢林《世界时代》的二十多份书稿绝大多数已经遗失或毁于战火。本书收录了该书1811年和1813年的两部已正式排印的原稿、1814年的第81号手稿、以及1815年的残篇，这是国内外学界迄今为止最为完整的《世界时代》文本辑录。在《世界时代》这部著作里，谢林按照“过去-现在-未来”的框架，刻意地用一种夹杂着历史叙述与辩证法推演的语言阐述了上帝和人在永恒和时间之内的命运：从自身内部的不同本原之间的纠缠和斗争出发，通过斗争和分离，让一切各安其位，统一在唯一的绝对精神之下。在这个过程中，谢林几乎讨论了所有重要的哲学问题，其中关于“神性”、“存在者-存在”、“自由”、“恶”、“时间”的论述尤其具有无与伦比的深刻性和重大影响。因此，无论是就谢林的主观意愿而言，还是就客观影响而言，《世界时代》都是整个谢林哲学的核心枢纽，对于理解谢林的早期哲学和后期哲学都具有至关重要的意义。