Two books have been particularly influential in contemporary philosophy of science: Karl R. Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery, and Thomas S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Both agree upon the importance of revolutions in science, but differ about the role of criticism in science's revolutionary growth. This volume arose out of a symposium on Kuhn's work, with Popper in the chair, at an international colloquium held in London in 1965. The book begins with Kuhn's statement of his position followed by seven essays offering criticism and analysis, and finally by Kuhn's reply. The book will interest senior undergraduates and graduate students of the philosophy and history of science, as well as professional philosophers, philosophically inclined scientists, and some psychologists and sociologists.

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then—diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions—continue to confront us today. This new edition, published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of its original publication, contains an improved and expanded index and a new introduction by noted Arendt scholar Margaret Canovan which incisively analyzes the book's argument and examines its present relevance. A classic in political and social theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless and perpetually timely.

Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system—Wiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting. He hoped that machines would release people from relentless and repetitive drudgery in order to achieve more creative pursuits. At the same time he realized the danger of dehumanizing and displacement. His book examines the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science, technology, as he anticipates the enormous impact—in effect, a third industrial revolution—that the computer has had on our lives.

Although it is on occasion important and useful to distinguish between factual claims and value judgments, the distinction becomes, Hilary Putnam argues, positively harmful when identified with a dichotomy between the objective and the purely "subjective." Lively, concise, and wise, his book prepares the way for a renewed mutual fruition of philosophy and the social sciences.

在爬梳大量古典文献资料的基础上，作者对《中庸》做出了具有创造力与理论深度的独特解读，将中庸理解为上下（古今、天地）通达的智慧，从而实现了对已有《中庸》研究框架与模式的突破同时，作品展示了作者的人文关怀和当下关怀，在古典哲学研究中具有一定的前沿性。

本书写于1930年。当时作者虽相当了解法西斯主义，但对国家社会主义几乎一无所知。当作者还在为书稿的完成而喜悦时，十分震惊地听说国家社会党人在1930年的选举中赢得了最初的胜利。书稿被搁置一旁有一年之久。因为我不想让它在我的三卷本《哲学》之有问世。《哲学》在1931年发表。该书发表后几星期，本书也出版了。
为了阐明那个时代，作者利用了仅属于那些特别岁月的事实材料，因而本书在许多方面感染了当时的气氛。尽管自它问世以来已发生了种种事情，但是若考虑一下今天的哲学状况和世界情景，那么作者认为，它在现在和当时一样有效。
作者为德国存在主义哲学家, 主张哲学是对存在的主观解释, 认为哲学应当为人的自由而呼吁, 应当注重人的生存, 并以此作为一切现实的核心。本书为其重要著作。

《自由的逻辑》内容简介：迈克尔·博兰尼与哈耶克、波普尔同为“朝圣山学会”的重要代表人物，二战以来捍卫自由的有力斗士。然而，我国学界对哈耶克、波普尔介绍甚多，对博兰尼却少有提及。《自由的逻辑》是博兰尼的重要代表作，初版于1951年。正与哈耶克的《通往奴役之路》、波普尔的《开放社会及其敌人》具有相同的写作背景及目的，亦与这两部捍卫自由的名著有异曲同工之力。《自由的逻辑》收入了作者二战前后的数篇论文，雄辩地阐述了他一如既往倡导的主题，即科学发展与经济进步应以自由的实现为基本前提，而阉割自由的计划体制则有可能牺牲科学及经济发展。

To those weary and wary of the cacophony about what's wrong with education in America and what ought to be done about it, Oakeshott's voice beckons. As usual, his approach to the subject is subtle, comprehensive, and radical -- in the sense of summoning readers to the root of the matter. That root, Oakeshott believed, is the very nature of learning itself and, concomitantly, the means (as distinct from the method) by which the life of learning is discovered, cultivated, and pursued. As Oakeshott has written, "This, then, is what we are concerned with: adventures in human self-understanding. Not the bare protestation that a human being is a self-conscious, reflective intelligence and that he does not live by bread alone, but the actual enquiries, utterances, and actions in which human beings have expressed their understanding of the human condition. This is the stuff of what has come to be called a liberal' education -- liberal' because it is liberated from the distracting business of satisfying contingent wants". Includes a foreword by Timothy Fuller that reiterates the timelessness of Oakeshott's reflections amid the continuing clamour that characterises discourse about liberal education.

Two important dialogues offer crucial insights into mystical and aesthetic aspects of Platonic doctrine. Symposium attempts to find the ultimate manifestation of the love that controls the world, leading to mystic union with eternal and supercosmic beauty. Phaedrus discusses the psychology of love, resulting in the concept of the familiar Platonic "forms" as objects of transcendental emotion. Jowett translation.

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Incorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy
•The extensively revised English translation incorporates many hundreds of changes to Anscombes original translation
•Footnoted remarks in the earlier editions have now been relocated in the text
•What was previously referred to as Part 2 is now republished as Philosophy of Psychology A Fragment, and all the remarks in it are numbered for ease of reference
•New detailed editorial endnotes explain decisions of translators and identify references and allusions in Wittgenstein's original text
•Now features new essays on the history of the Philosophical Investigations, and the problems of translating Wittgensteins text

Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction is the first systematic textbook in the philosophy of economics. It introduces the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical problems that arise in economics, and presents detailed discussions of the solutions that have been offered. Throughout, philosophical issues are illustrated by and analysed in the context of concrete cases drawn from contemporary economics, the history of economic ideas, and actual economic events. This demonstrates the relevance of philosophy of economics both for the science of economics and for the economy. This text will provide an excellent introduction to the philosophy of economics for students and interested general readers alike.

First published in 2001, Causality in Macroeconomics addresses the long-standing problems of causality while taking macroeconomics seriously. The practical concerns of the macroeconomist and abstract concerns of the philosopher inform each other. Grounded in pragmatic realism, the book rejects the popular idea that macroeconomics requires microfoundations, and argues that the macroeconomy is a set of structures that are best analyzed causally. Ideas originally due to Herbert Simon and the Cowles Commission are refined and generalized to non-linear systems, particularly to the non-linear systems with cross-equation restrictions that are ubiquitous in modern macroeconomic models with rational expectations (with and without regime-switching). These ideas help to clarify philosophical as well as economic issues. The structural approach to causality is then used to evaluate more familiar approaches to causality due to Granger, LeRoy and Glymour, Spirtes, Scheines and Kelly, as well as vector autoregressions, the Lucas critique, and the exogeneity concepts of Engle, Hendry and Richard.

What assumptions and methods allow us to turn observations into causal knowledge, and how can even incomplete causal knowledge be used in planning and prediction to influence and control our environment? In this book Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour, and Richard Scheines address these questions using the formalism of Bayes networks, with results that have been applied in diverse areas of research in the social, behavioral, and physical sciences.The authors show that although experimental and observational study designs may not always permit the same inferences, they are subject to uniform principles. They axiomatize the connection between causal structure and probabilistic independence, explore several varieties of causal indistinguishability, formulate a theory of manipulation, and develop asymptotically reliable procedures for searching over equivalence classes of causal models, including models of categorical data and structural equation models with and without latent variables.The authors show that the relationship between causality and probability can also help to clarify such diverse topics in statistics as the comparative power of experimentation versus observation, Simpson's paradox, errors in regression models, retrospective versus prospective sampling, and variable selection. The second edition contains a new introduction and an extensive survey of advances and applications that have appeared since the first edition was published in 1993.

《道德經》，又稱《道德真經》、《老子》、《五千言》、《老子五千文》，是中國古代先秦諸子分家前的一部著作，為其時諸子所共仰，傳說是春秋時期的老子李耳所撰寫，是道家哲學思想的重要來源，道德經分上下兩篇，原文上篇《德經》、下篇《道經》，不分章，後改為《道經》37章在前，第38章之後為《德經》，並分為81章，是中國歷史上首部完整的哲學著作。

《死亡的尊严与生命的尊严》除了从科际整合的宏观角度把“死亡学”连贯到精神医学、精神治疗、哲学、宗教学乃至一般科学（如心理学与文化人类学），以便揭示“死亡学”研究的现代意义之外，更进一步从作者熟研半生的世界各大宗教传统，特别是耶、佛、儒、道诸家，汲汲观照生死，观照生命的尊严与死亡的尊严，了脱生死的智慧，并以此来探讨现代人的死亡问题及其精神超克，以及生死的终极意义。