This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper. The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented. How can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while privileging its core of rationality as unquestionable? This book includes expert contributions from thinkers such as Tony Lawson, K. Vela Velupillai and John McCall, who discuss this issue with renewed academic rigour.

艺术高于生活、艺术反映现实的唯美主义思想，在这部小说中得到了充分的体现。主人公道连一步步走向堕落，并沦为杀人犯，在他自身的容貌上并没有得到反映，他依然像以往那么年轻英雄。但作为艺术作品的画像，却记录他的种种劣迹，画像中的他变得难看和衰老了，说明只有艺术才能反映人的个性和思想的变化，而现实现实是做不到的。
道连·格雷本是个单纯的少年，在他的生活中，对他影响最大的是两个人：画家霍尔华德和朋友亨利勋爵。霍尔华德为艺术而生活，他在道连身上所投注的感情，转化为了他艺术的灵感，尤其表现在创作道连·格雷的画像上，使这幅画作成了他绘画生涯中难得的精品。画像是他艺术和情感的结晶，给他带来欢乐的同时，也给他造成了不少痛苦。所以他时刻关心道连，生怕他过多地受到亨利勋爵的不良影响。也正是他所作的这幅画像，引出了一连串问题，推动着小说情节的发展。而玩世不恭的亨利勋爵，是道连的“精神导师”，一个享乐主义者，有着一整套似是而非的个人主义理论，用雄辩的口才和充满智慧的警语包装起来，轻而易举地使人接受。他谆谆教导道连要充分享受生活，趁年轻的时候及时行乐，不要抵制诱惑，相反要随心所欲，去实现自已的每个幻想。道连是他的个人主义理论的试验品，所以他要时刻跟踪他，观察这种试验的效果。他之所以接近道连，还有一个深层的原因，那就是道连身上有着他所珍视而又缺乏的东西：青春。道连在亨利的“教导”下，个性由单纯变为世故，灵魂由纯洁转为污秽，最后走向自身的毁灭。道连、霍尔华德和亨利三个人物，通过性格上的互补和依赖，紧密地联系在一起，成了小说结构内在的黏合剂。 本书是一部内涵非常丰富的小说，要充分地挖掘综，对读者来说是一个挑战，正是因为如此，它也就更富有吸引力。

Carl Jacob Candoris, Mathematiker, Dandy, Weltbürger und Jazz-Fan, legt mit fünfundneunzig Jahren seine Lebensbeichte ab. Der mit der Aufzeichnung betraute Schriftsteller Sebastian Lukasser, selbst schon über fünfzig und Sohn eines langjährigen Protegés von Candoris, vermischt die Geschichten von seiner und Candoris’ Familie zu dem Panorama eines ganzen Jahrhunderts. Der epische, zu Herzen gehende Roman erzählt von persönlichen und politischen Hoffnungen, von Kunst und Leben, von Geist und Ungeist einer Epoche.

Few other economists have been read and cited as much as R.H. Coase, a scholar who approached economics as a philosopher: with contemplation, careful scrutiny of real conditions and consideration of the practical implications of theory. "These essays bear rereading. Coase's careful attention to actual institutions not only offers deep insight into economics but also provides the best argument for Coase's methodological position. The clarity of the exposition and the elegance of the style also make them a pleasure to read and a model worthy of emulation."--Lewis A. Kornhauser, Journal of Economic Literature

自休谟与洛克以来，客观主义的认识论认为真正的知识必须经得起经验的检验，不得超越经验，如果知识与经验冲突，人们必须随时准备抛弃这种“知识”。依据这种认识论，我们必须尽力排除求知过程之中的个人系数，才能达至完全客观的理想该书认为，这种以主客观分离为基础的认识论不仅是错误的，而且还是有害的。事实上，求知是一种技能，是一种个人怀着责任感与普遍性意图、从启发性前兆不断趋近真实的过程，一旦缺少了个人的求知热情与参与，任何有意义的知识都无法获得。而个人对求知的寄托、科学社群对知识主张的共识，以及社会对自由思维的尊重，都是人类知识增长过程中环环相扣的要素。
严密的理路、详尽的论证，《个人知识》所呈现的，不仅是一个科学家对自己志业的热情与省思，更是一个公民对自由社会的忠贞与执着。

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.

Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific discovery. Taking readers through the history of modern science, Whitehead shows how cultural history has affected science over the ages in relation to such major intellectual themes as romanticism, relativity, quantum theory, religion, and movements for social progress.