More than any other writer of the twentieth century, Henri Poincaré brought the elegant, but often complicated, ideas about science and mathematics to the general reader. A genius who throughout his life solved complex mathematical calculations in his head, and a writer gifted with an inimitable style, Poincaré rose to the challenge of interpreting the philosophy of science to scientists and nonscientists alike. His lucid and welcoming prose made him the Carl Sagan of his time. This volume collects his three most important books: Science and Hypothesis (1903); The Value of Science (1905); and Science and Method (1908).

"Intention", first published in 1957, has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned.

" The Way We Think is a dazzling tour of the complexities of human imagination."--George Lakoff, co-author of Philosophy in the Flesh and Where Mathematics Comes From . In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition--the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the cutting-edge research in cognitive science is increasingly focused on the more mysterious, creative aspects of the mind. The Way We Think is a landmark synthesis that exemplifies this new direction. The theory of conceptual blending is already widely known in laboratories throughout the world; this book is its definitive statement. Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner argue that all learning and all thinking consist of blends of metaphors based on simple bodily experiences. These blends are then themselves blended together into an increasingly rich structure that makes up our mental functioning in modern society. A child's entire development consists of learning and navigating these blends. The Way We Think shows how this blending operates; how it is affected by (and gives rise to) language, identity, and concept of category; and the rules by which we use blends to understand ideas that are new to us. The result is a bold, exciting, and accessible new view of how the mind works.

A master practitioner gives us an entertaining tour of the historian's workshop and a spirited defense of the search for historical truth. E. H. Carr's What Is History? , a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy successor. In his compact, intriguing survey, Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of documentation and powerful computer models to the skilled investigator's sudden insight, all employed with the aim of reconstructing a verifiable, usable past. Evans defends this commitment to historical knowledge from the attacks of postmodernist critics who see all judgments as subjective. Evans brings "a remarkable range, a nose for the archives, a taste for controversy, and a fluent pen" ( The New Republic ) to this splendid work. "Essential reading for coming generations."-Keith Thomas

The book includes fifteen essays and an interview. The essays are grouped in three parts: Mathematics; Mathematics and Physics; and Language, Consciousness, and Book reviews. Most of the essays are about some aspects of epistemology and the history of sciences, mainly mathematics, physics, and the history of language. English translations of some of the essays, originally published in Russian, appear for the first time in this selection. One of them is the introduction to the book Computable and Uncomputable, where the idea of a quantum computer was first proposed in 1980. Another is an essay on the mythological trickster figure, where the evolutionary role of manipulative behavior is discussed in connection with the problem of the origin of human language. With the foreword by Freeman Dyson, this book will be of interest to anyone interested in the philosophy and history of mathematics, physics, and linguistics.

作为尼采注疏集中最重要的一部作品：《扎拉图斯特拉如是说》，采用最新的中译本版本，在KSA版、PÜTZ版和GALLIMARD法文版注释的同时，为适合汉语学术语境以及读者更好理解行文，主编刘小枫教授对译文作了体察入微的精心修订，每一处细微的改动都从内容（哲学方面）和形式（诗的韵律方面）更贴切地传达了尼采的大义，而且还特意对涉及经文处加了【中译编者注】，这都将使本书成为目前国内学术界最完备的研究本《扎拉图斯特拉如是说》。
此书完全值得每一位关注并热爱尼采的学内外人士重新阅读。

本书是初稿系约翰·塞尔在1984年英国广播公司举办的里思学术系列广播讲座上的演讲稿，经修改后以《心、脑与科学》书名于当年出版、被西方哲学评论家誉为“比他以往任何著作都更广，更深地表述了他的心的哲学观点”。
当代英美分析哲学及语言哲学往往拘泥于命题，语词的研究，而忽略了哲学的基本问题。塞尔将语言哲学的观点用于研究心身问题。塞尔将语言哲学的观点用于研究心身问题，使语言哲学也开始回归传统的哲学基本问题，而且，其研究方法富于当代语言哲学的色彩。

A brilliantly clear and penetrating exposition of developments in physical science and mathematics brought about by the advent of non-Euclidean geometries, including in-depth coverage of the foundations of geometry, the theory of time, Einstein’s theory of relativity and its consequences, other key topics.

Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words 'Phusis kruptesthai philei.' How the aphorism, usually translated as 'Nature loves to hide,' has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, Hadot traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus' words. Over time, Hadot finds, 'Nature loves to hide' has meant that all that lives tends to die; that Nature wraps herself in myths; and (for Heidegger) that Being unveils as it veils itself. Meanwhile the pronouncement has been used to explain everything from the opacity of the natural world to our modern angst.

Five chapters in the book's first part, "Some Elementary Neuroscience," sketch the history of the science of nervous systems and provide a general introduction to neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropsychology. In the second part, "Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science," chapters place the mind-body problem within the wider context of the philosophy of science. Drawing on recent research in this area, a general account of intertheoretic reduction is explained, arguments for a reductionist strategy are developed, and traditional objections from dualists and other anti reductionists are answered in novel ways. The third part, "A Neurophilosophical Perspective," concludes the book with a presentation and discussion of some of the most promising theoretical developments currently under exploration in functional neurobiology and in the connectionist models within artificial intelligence research.Patricia Churchland is Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego. A Bradford Book.

德勒兹一生中与迦塔利合写过多部作品，《卡夫卡——为弱势文学而作》和《什么是哲学》是其中的两部。
在《卡夫卡》中，作者强调卡夫卡喜欢用一种称为“弱势”的文学术语，从语言、政治和群体上定义自己，同时又指出，弱势文学是大文学中彻底革命的元素。
在《什么是哲学？》中，作者指出：哲学作为创造概念的活动，应该告诉我们什么是概念的创造性本质，什么是随之相生的纯粹的内在性、内在平面和概念性的人物。正是通过这一点，哲学区别于科学和逻辑。
目 录
卡夫卡——为弱势文学而作
第一章 内容和表达
低垂的头和抬起的头——照片和音响
第二章 夸大的俄狄浦斯情结
双重超越：社会三角，动物之变
第三章 什么是弱势文学
语言行为——政治因素——群体因素
第四章 表达的构成成分
情书和邪恶盟约——短篇小说和动物之变——小说和机能性布局
第五章 内在性和欲望
反法律、负罪感和其他——过程、比邻，延续和无限度
第六章 层出不穷的系列
权力问题——欲望、片断和路线
第七章 联接手段
女人和艺术家——艺术的反美学倾向
第八章 单元，系列，强度
卡夫卡所说的两种营养造状态——单元的各种形式与小说的构造——矫揉造作
第九章 什么是配置？
话语和欲望，表达和内容
法汉译名对照表
什么是哲学
导论 问题因而就是
Ⅰ哲学
1.什么是概念？
2.内在性平面
3.概念性人物
4.地理哲学
Ⅱ哲学、科学逻辑和艺术
5.函项与概念
6.前景与概念
7.感知物、情态和概念
结论 从混沌到大脑
法汉译名对照表
译者谨识

Together, and for the first time in any language, the 24 essays gathered in these volumes provide a composite picture of the history of religion in ancient China from the emergence of writing ca. 1250 BC to the collapse of the first major imperial dynasty in 220 AD. It is a multi-faceted tale of changing gods and rituals that includes the emergence of a form of “secular humanism” that doubts the existence of the gods and the efficacy of ritual and of an imperial orthodoxy that founds its legitimacy on a distinction between licit and illicit sacrifices. Written by specialists in a variety of disciplines, the essays cover such subjects as divination and cosmology, exorcism and medicine, ethics and self-cultivation, mythology, taboos, sacrifice, shamanism, burial practices, iconography, and political philosophy.
Produced under the aegis of the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine (UMR 8155) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris).

This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy that have accompanied the trajectory and fate of the theory and practice of spiritual exercises. Hadot's book demonstrates the extent to which philosophy has been, and still is, above all else a way of seeing and of being in the world.

《批判性思维教程》是在北京大学和中国青年政治学院开设“逻辑与批判性思维”课程的基础上写成的。2003年秋，“逻辑与批判性思维”作为一门通选课在北京大学首次开设，2004年纳入暑期学校课程。从2004年起，每年讲授两轮。春季的授课对象主要是“元培计划”的学生；暑期的授课对象主要是其他院系一年级的本科生。2000年秋，中国青年政治学院开始对“普通逻辑”课程进行改革，逐渐向“批判性思维”过渡，到2003年秋与北京大学同步开设“逻辑与批判性思维”课程。

The Rebel is an essay on artistic, historical, and metaphysical rebellion, in which he lays out the difference between revolution and revolt.
Camus sees revolt as a peaceful, evolutionary process that requires leadership but not violence. He criticizes Hegel's work, accusing it of glorifying power and the state over social morality and ethics, and he accuses Marx of co-opting Hegelian philosophy to allow "any means to an end". Camus prefers Mediterranean humanism, a philosophy grounded in nature and moderation, to the violence and historicism he sees as part and parcel to what he calls the "Absolutist" philosophies. The attacks on Hegel, Marxism and nihilism in The Rebel had a profound effect on Camus' peers.
The book was described as intellectual treason by leftist critics, and a review by Francis Jeanson in Les Temps Modernes accused Camus of being a traitor to the left. After Camus attempted to defend himself in a letter to the publication, Jean-Paul Sartre, the editor of Les Temps Modernes at the time, published an open letter in response that tallied 19 pages. The letter included personal attacks, and marked the end of the two philosophers' friendship.

《时间与自由意志》内容简介：亨利·路易·柏格森于1859年10月18日生于巴黎。1878年他进师范学校，1881年得哲学学士学位，1889年得文学博士学位。他在法国各省立中学和巴黎各公立中学主持各种讲座之后，于1897年担任高等师范学院的主任讲师；自1900年起一直在法兰西大学当教授。1901年他当选为伦理政治科学研究院的研究员，因而荣任法国科学院的院士。

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with the history of the British Empire, he demonstrates the importance of ideology as an essential linking between the processes of state-formation and empire-building. This book sheds light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing fascinating accounts of the 'British problem' in the early modern period, of the relationship between Protestantism and empire, of theories of property, liberty and political economy in imperial perspective, and of the imperial contribution to the emergence of British 'identities' in the Atlantic world.

Being and Event is the greatest work of Alain Badiou, France's most important living philosopher. Long-awaited in translation, Being and Event makes available to an English-speaking readership Badiou's groundbreaking work on set theory - the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. The book makes the scope and aim of Badiou's whole philosophical project clear, enabling full comprehension of Badiou's significance for contemporary philosophy. Badiou draws upon and is fully engaged with the European philosophical tradition from Plato onwards; Being and Event deals with such key figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Rousseau, Heidegger and Lacan.
This wide-ranging book is organised in a careful, precise and novel manner, reflecting the philosophical rigour of Badiou's thought. Unlike many contemporary Continental philosophers, Badiou - who is also a novelist and dramatist - writes lucidly and cogently, making his work far more accessible and engaging than much philosophy, and actually a pleasure to read. This English language edition includes a new preface, written by Badiou himself, especially for this translation.
Being and Event is a must-have for Badiou's significant following and anyone interested in contemporary Continental philosophy.