The first edition of this book profoundly challenged and divided students of philosophy, sociology, and the history of science when it was published in 1976. In this second edition, Bloor responds in a substantial new Afterword to the heated debates engendered by his book. "Bloor's book came out as a broadside that announced a new approach to the history and philosophy of science, an approach that became known as the strong programme.' . . . Now, any book published in history and philosophy of science must take Bloor and the strong programme into account."--Robert J. Richards, University of Chicago

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Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers numerous intriguing examples, Davis Baird gives us the tools to "read" the material products of science and technology and to understand their place in culture. Making a provocative and original challenge to our conception of knowledge itself, "Thing Knowledge" demands that we take a new look at theories of science and technology, knowledge, progress, and change. Baird considers a wide range of instruments, including Faraday's first electric motor, eighteenth-century mechanical models of the solar system, the cyclotron, various instruments developed by analytical chemists between 1930 and 1960, spectrometers, and more.

《国学基本教材:孟子大学中庸卷》编辑目标，在于陶铸高中学生优雅的气质，高尚的品德，并启迪人生意义，弘扬中华文化。本书选辑的篇章，以能反映中华文化精髓，培养伦理道德观念，且具有时代意义者为标准。台湾版《高中中国文化基本教材》是从1963年开始编写，经过近半个世纪的精心打磨、不断修订而成的。这套教材很好地继承了上个世纪前半叶中国传统国文教材的精华，同时又能融通古今，与时俱进，富于现代气息，将中国传统文化基本典籍的精髓集于六册教科书中，为学生从文化上、精神上“做中国人，做一个现代中国人”打下良好的基础。

本书以法国希腊哲学学者、汉学家于连的有关中国思想研究为基础，用对话形式探讨了中国思想和从希腊传统发展而来的西方思想在沟通与交流方面的一些问题。如何看待异域的文化，为什么深入异域的思想文化，分析有别自身的他者不是为了比较优劣，而是为了更深入地反思自己的文化，这是西方研究中国和中国研究西方都应该思考的一个重要问题。远去是为了归来。

人生的智慧就是如何尽量称心、愉快地度过一生这样一门艺术。关于这方面的教诲在哲学上可称为“幸福论”。因此，这本著作教导人们如何才能享有一个幸福的生存。
对于人的幸福起着首要关键作用的，是属于人的主体的美好素质，这些包括高贵的品格、良好的智力、愉快的性情和健康良好的体魄。
在这世上存在三种力：明智、力量和运气。我相信运气至为重要。

More than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase 'irrational exuberance' to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of 'tulipomania', a speculative madness surrounding the value of tulips in the 18th century that was the ruin of many Dutch and English investors. This is only one of the 'extraordinary popular delusions' documented by Mackay in a fascinating study of group psychology. He also describes notorious witch hunts, haunted houses, the Crusades, beliefs in fortune tellers and in the magical power of alchemy, veneration of relics, bogus health cures and health scares, and many other examples of human credulity and flights from reason. This work is a true classic in the study of paranormal beliefs, a funny, shocking, and unbelievable yet true history of human gullibility.

Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives?In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice which, despite their many specific achievements have taken us, he argues, in the wrong direction in general. At the heart of Sen’s argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. But it is in the nature of reasoning about justice, argues Sen, that it does not allow all questions to be settled even in theory; there are choices to be faced between alternative assessments of what is reasonable; several different and competing positions can each be well-defended.Far from rejecting such pluralities or trying to reduce them beyond the limits of reasoning, we should make use of them to construct a theory of justice that can absorb divergent points of view. Sen also shows how concern about the principles of justice in the modern world must avoid parochialism, and further, address questions of global injustice. The breadth of vision, intellectual acuity and striking humanity of one of the world's leading public intellectuals have never been more clearly shown than in this remarkable book.

《历史的历史：从远古到20世纪的历史书写》是一部关于各种历史的历史，西方两千五百年文明里的史家和历史作品，都可以在本书里综览，读者可以看到希罗多德、修昔底德、李维、塔西佗、比德、弗罗瓦萨尔、克拉伦登、吉本、麦考莱、米什莱、普雷斯科特、帕克曼等西方史学长河里的明星。
在这部气势恢宏的史学史巨著中，作者把史学放在文明和社会的框架里来叙述，以饶富文学趣味的精彩笔调详析史家及其作品，告诉我们史家如何选择、讲述、研究和评断历史，使希腊到今日的史家作品再次恢复生气，向读者诉说着不同种类“历史”诞生及衰落的“历史”，点出“历史”的核心问题：史家如何处理自身经验和时代问题。
对于想一窥史学堂奥的读者而言，这是一部深具收藏价值的史学史导读。本书也希望改变我们对历史的看法，它驱除了历久不散的迷思。书中提及史家对自身时代与文明的看法，其观点不仅出人意表，也令人耳目一新。

本书是日本近代启蒙思想家福泽谕吉的主要著作之一。
本书阐明了文明的涵义，认为西洋文明高于日本文明，并指出日本必须以西洋为目标，努力学习，急起直追。
本书体现了日本新兴资产阶级的进取和现实精神，可以帮助读者了解日本资本主义初期的政治思想状况。

福泽谕吉（1835—1901），日本明治维新前后一位西方近代文明的启蒙者和伟大的教育家。本书写于1872—1876年，是福泽谕吉启蒙思想的代表作之一。全书共分十七篇，分别论述了学问的主旨、学者的本份、国民的职责、平等权利、文明开化、品德修养以及个人的自主和国家的独立等问题。本书集中反映了作者对封建意识形态的批判，表达了其强调科学精神、提倡实学、主张发展资本主义和维护国家独立的思想观点，是近代日本思想史上的一部名著。

《这个时代的无知与傲慢:索罗斯给开放社会的建言》内容简介：索罗斯是当代西方著名的哲学家卡尔波普的学生，他的思想和世界观深受其哲学思想影响。他在《这个时代的无知与傲慢:索罗斯给开放社会的建言》一书中谈到了其对人类行为的易错性，思维与真相等问题的理解，认为“我们身处一个不完美的社会，人类行为具有彻底的易错性”，试图从认识论层面重新激发人们对当今世界的看法。
索罗斯还在书中谈到了自己对911事件、反恐战争、以及美国民主自由世界观的看法，针砭时弊地指出这个时代缺陷———暴政、暴戾、无知以及傲慢；同时，也提出了他对开放世界的谏言。

"现代性"问题必然会对正在思考中国现代化之路的中国知识分子造成极大的困惑，因为它意味着：现代化的进程并不只是一套正面价值的胜利实现，而且同时还伴随着巨大的负面价值。 自由、民主、法制这些基本的正面价值实际上都只是在商品化社会中才能顺利地建立起来的，但是商品化社会由于瓦解了文化传统而必然造成"神圣感的消失"，尤其商品化社会几乎无可避免的"商品拜物教"和"物化"现象以及"大众文化"的泛滥，更使知识分子强烈地感到在现代社会中精神生活的沉沦、价值基础的崩溃。人类在现代社会中所面临的最根本二难困境正在于此。
目 录
八十年代的现代性批判与九十年代转型
八十年代中国文化讨论五题
古今中西之争
从“理性的批判”到“文化的批判”
《中国当代文化意识》前言
儒学与现代

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