This indispensable new edition brings Chalmers' popular text up to date with contemporary trends and confirms its status as the best introductory textbook on the philosophy of science.

Over the last 25 years this account to dethrone empiricist thought has become both a bestseller and a standard university text with translations into fifteen languages.

This revised and extended edition offers a concise and illuminating treatment of major developments in the field over the last two decades, with the same accessible style which ensured the popularity of previous editions. Of particular importance is the examination of Bayesianism and the new experimentalism, as well as new chapters on the nature of scientific laws and recent trends in the realism versus anti-realism debate.


"Crisp, lucid and studded with telling examples… As a handy guide to recent alarums and excursions (in the philosophy of science) I find this book vigorous, gallant and useful."

New Scientist

This is an account of the schism that developed in linguistics during the 1960s and 70s, between Noam Chomsky with his revolutionary ideas about mental structure and universal grammar, and his disciples who took his ideas in a direction he was unhappy with. The repercussions of this divisive and acrimonious dispute remain in the ways that linguists look at language and the mind.

《无聊的哲学》内容简介：如果有人问你，“你有过无聊的时候吗？”恐怕你的答案会是，“当然有”。为什么我们会感觉到无聊？是因为无事可做，还是因为重复单调？为什么无聊会让我们感觉不舒服？无聊是怎么折磨我们的？无聊的时候．我们看电影、逛街、上网，让自己忙起来，希望能借此摆脱无聊，但是我们真的能据此走出无聊吗？为什么哲学家说“无法忍耐无聊的一代是平庸的—代”？
无聊是现代人的“专利”，人类的快乐与愤怒是保持不变的，然而当下人们的无聊感却是与日俱增，世界明显变得越来越无聊。在人类历史的绝大部分时间，无聊是身份的象征，只有上层阶级才有无聊所必需的物质条件，在浪漫主义时代以前，无聊只是边缘现象一一只有僧倡和贵族才感到无聊。随着无聊蔓延到社会的各个角落，它已不再具有排他性。
作者认为，无聊是无法靠意志克服的，它对于人类有着独特的和重要的意义。透过无聊，我们去获得另一种看世界的智慧。

希拉里•普特南系当代美国著名哲学家。《理性、真理与历史》是他的代表作之一，《理性、真理与历史》自1981年问世以来，短短数年时间便拥有了当代经典的声望，美国哲学学会曾为此书召开专题讨论会。
普特南广泛、透彻地把握了当代哲学重大问题和主要潮流，在本书中对波及语言哲学、逻辑哲学、精神哲学等众多哲学分支的大量哲学问题进行了深入浅出的阐述，尤其对真理的本质、合理性和历史等问题提出了独到的见解，其目的在于打破一系列长期支配哲学家及普通人的二分法思维方式，克服主观与客观之间、事实与价值之间、独断论与相对主义之间等的一系列对立。

This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from philosophy of language to their work on the nature of law and legal interpretation. By making this body of recent work available in a single volume, readers will gain both a general overview of the various interactions between language and law, and also detailed analyses of particular areas in which this interaction is manifest. The contributions to this volume are grouped under three main general areas: The first area concerns a critical assessment, in light of recent advances in philosophy of language, of the foundational role of language in understanding the nature of law itself. The second main area concerns a number of ways in which an understanding of language can resolve some of the issues prevalent in legal interpretation, such as the various ways in which semantic content can differ from law's assertive content; the contribution of presuppositions and pragmatic implicatures in understanding what the law conveys; the role of vagueness in legal language, for example. The third general topic concerns the role of language in the context of particular legal doctrines and legal solutions to practical problems, such as the legal definitions of inchoate crimes, the legal definition of torture, or the contractual doctrines concerning default rules. Together, these three key issues cover a wide range of philosophical interests in law that can be elucidated by a better understanding of language and linguistic communication.

本书对存在主义哲学作了全面、系统的介绍， 被美国和西方哲学界公认为英语国家中介绍、研究存在主义的最优秀的著作。

结构主义及解构主义时代，是法国知识界激情燃烧的岁月。法国知识分子经历了痛苦和磨难。他们曾经喜怒哀乐，他们曾经悲欢离合，他们曾经是有血有肉的人生，总之是曲折动人的感情为卑贱鸣冤叫屈，他们曾经为侩子手高唱赞歌……总之，总之是惊涛骇浪的思想，总之是那个时代特有的强烈共鸣。思想的波折坎坷……尽在其中矣。他们最终创造另外一个崭新的知识王国，重烩了人类的知识地图，改变了世界的走向，成为21世纪最具冲击力的思想之源！

In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.
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Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
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For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
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Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds.
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Focault interprets his writtings about sexuality, politics and punishment.

For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture. At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s. Today, Debord's work continues to be in the forefront of debates about the fate of consumer society and the operation of modern social power. In a sweeping revision of Marxist categories, the notion of the spectacle takes the problem of the commodity from the sphere of economics to a point at which the commodity as an image dominates not only economic exchange but the primary communicative and symbolic activity of all modern societies.Guy Debord was one of the most important participants in the activities associated with the Situationist International in the 1960s. Also an artist and filmmaker, he is the author of Memoires and Commentaires sur la societe du spectacle. A Swerve Edition, distributed for Zone Books.

The individual volumes of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed History of Western Philosophy have been hailed as "wonderfulauthoritativehugely rewarding" (Times Higher Education Supplement) and "genial and highly accessible" (London Review of Books). Now these four splendid books have been combined into one magnificent paperback volume, providing a continuous sweeping account of the great thought of the Western world. Here readers will find not only an authoritative guide to the history of philosophy, but also a compelling introduction to every major area of philosophical inquiry. Kenny tells the story of philosophy chronologically, his lively narrative bringing the great philosophers to life and filling in the historical and intellectual background to their work. Kenny also looks closely at each of the main areas of philosophical exploration: knowledge and understanding; science; metaphysics; mind and soul; the nature and content of morality; political philosophy; and God. A New History of Western Philosophy is a stimulating chronicle of the intellectual development of Western civilization, allowing readers to trace the birth and growth of philosophy from antiquity to the present day.

《畏惧与颤栗 恐惧的概念 致死的疾病》是索伦·奥碧·克尔凯郭尔著作汉语翻译包括了《畏惧与颤栗》、《恐惧的概念》和《致死的疾病》。其中《畏惧与颤栗》、《恐惧的概念》是出自索伦·克尔凯郭尔研究中心的《索伦·克尔凯郭尔文集》第四卷（1997年版），而《畏惧与颤栗 恐惧的概念 致死的疾病》则是出自中心的《索伦·克尔凯郭尔文集》第十一卷（2006年版）。

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Frankl's timeless memoir and meditation on finding meaning in the midst of suffering With a new Foreword by Harold S. Kushner and a new Biographical Afterword by William J. Winslade Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful. At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America. Beacon Press, the original English-language publisher of Man's Search for Meaning, is issuing this new paperback edition with a new Foreword, biographical Afterword, jacket, price, and classroom materials to reach new generations of readers.
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挑衅固有认知的真实故事，颠覆三观的思想实验
在自己、亲人与陌生人之间,
如何配置我们的责任与爱才是心灵的自洽之道？
本书书名源自一个古老的哲学问题：如果你妈妈和陌生人同时溺水，你会怎么做？延伸开去，这个问题还可以是：爱人犯了可怕的重罪，应该举报吗？你眼前有个人在受苦，同时新闻报道里有一百个人在别处受苦，谁更令你揪心？垂死的老人和奄奄一息的小孩，你选择救谁……在践行善举时，以何种方式帮 助他人、远近亲疏及数量之别令你感到困扰吗？以血缘为中心的道德观是否具有天然的正当性？反过来，抹除亲人和陌生人界限的无差别的爱是否 更高尚？
本书讲述了一些利他主义者的故事，他们不断探索最合理、最呼应自己内在需求的行善方式，有些行为极端得令人震撼和敬畏。这些真实的故事让我们直面“人生的意义究竟是什么”这一终极问题。在一个被陌生人的需要淹没的世界里，我们总要面对如下诘问：我们应该伸出多少援手？我们能够帮助多少？在自己、亲人与陌生人之间，如何配置我们的责任与爱，才是心灵的自洽之道？

Philosophy of Language: a Contemporary Introduction introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics, includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force and surveys approaches to metaphor. Part IV, new to this edition, examines the four theories of metaphor. Features of Philosophy of Language include: New chapters on Frege and puzzles, inferentialism, illocutionary theories of meaning and relevance theory chapter overviews and summaries clear supportive examples study questions annotated further reading glossary

In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, Davidson, Austin, Grice and Wittgenstein. Theoretical jargon is kept to a minimum and is fully explained whenever it is introduced. The range of topics covered includes sense and reference, definite descriptions, proper names, natural-kind terms, de re and de dicto necessity, propositional attitudes, truth-theoretical approaches to meaning, radical interpretation, indeterminacy of translation, speech acts, intentional theories of meaning, and scepticism about meaning. The book will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the nature of linguistic meaning.

1981年4月，解释学和解构论两大思潮的代表人物伽达默尔与德里达进行了面对面的争论。这是二者的首次学术聚会和交锋，引起了普遍关注。
伽达默尔首先在会上作了一个题为“文本与阐释”的主题报告，差不多可被视为伽达默尔哲学解释学的一个总结性文本。在次日的圆桌讨论中， 德里达向伽达默尔提出了三个问题，作为他对伽氏报告的反应；而伽达默尔也作了答复。之后，德里达又在会上作了报告。以上文本为伽达默尔－德里达这次争论的 全部材料，构成本书第一部分“巴黎对话”。
事后几年里，伽达默尔对这次巴黎论战一直念念不已，又相继作了三篇文章，意在重梳他与德里达的异同，进一步回应来自德里达的对解释学哲 学的解构论挑战。关于巴黎论战，来自多国的各路哲学家进行了评论，本书选译了其中的两篇。它们与上述伽达默尔的三篇后续文章一起，构成本书第二部分，立题 为“不可能的对话？”。
两派都在学界具有极大的影响力，各自亦有着不同的立场，这场巴黎论战因而备受关注。读者阅读此书，除了有机会全面了解此一重大事件，还可以更深刻地理解解释学、解构论乃至海德格尔之后的西方哲学走向。

This brilliant exposition of the critique of identity is a classic in contemporary philosophy and one of Deleuze's most important works. Of fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers,Difference and Repetition develops two central concepts--pure difference and complex repetition--a;and shows how the two concepts are related. While difference implies divergence and decentering, repetition is associated with displacement and disguising. Central in initiating the shift in French thought away from Hegel and Marx toward Nietzsche and Freud, Difference and Repetition moves deftly to establish a fundamental critique of Western metaphysics.