Shows the value of the Bayesian methodology for the addressing the core issues in the field
Provides clear, comprehensive, and accessible explanations
Discusses a wide range of questions, from philosophical foundations to practical applications in science
Combines mathematical modeling with conceptual analysis, simulations, case studies, and empirical results
How should we reason in science? Jan Sprenger and Stephan Hartmann offer a refreshing take on classical topics in philosophy of science, using a single key concept to explain and to elucidate manifold aspects of scientific reasoning. They present good arguments and good inferences as being characterized by their effect on our rational degrees of belief. Refuting the view that there is no place for subjective attitudes in 'objective science', Sprenger and Hartmann explain the value of convincing evidence in terms of a cycle of variations on the theme of representing rational degrees of belief by means of subjective probabilities (and changing them by Bayesian conditionalization). In doing so, they integrate Bayesian inference—the leading theory of rationality in social science—with the practice of 21st century science. Bayesian Philosophy of Science thereby shows how modeling such attitudes improves our understanding of causes, explanations, confirming evidence, and scientific models in general. It combines a scientifically minded and mathematically sophisticated approach with conceptual analysis and attention to methodological problems of modern science, especially in statistical inference, and is therefore a valuable resource for philosophers and scientific practitioners.

Over the last four decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died two years ago, he was considered to be a thinker on a par with Foucault, Barthes, and Lacan--a public intellectual as influential to his generation as Sartre was to his.
"Science of Science and Reflexivity" will be welcomed as a companion volume to Bourdieu's now seminal "An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology." In this posthumous work, Bourdieu declares that science is in danger of becoming a handmaiden to biotechnology, medicine, genetic engineering, and military research--that it risks falling under the control of industrial corporations that seek to exploit it for monopolies and profit.
Science thus endangered can become detrimental to mankind. The line between pure and applied science, therefore, must be subjected to intense theoretical scrutiny. Bourdieu's goals in "Science of Science and Reflexivity" are to identify the social conditions in which science develops in order to reclaim its objectivity and to rescue it from relativism and the forces that might exploit it. In the grand tradition of scientific reflections on science, Bourdieu provides a sociological analysis of the discipline as something capable of producing transhistorical truths; he presents an incisive critique of the main currents in the study of science throughout the past half century; and he offers a spirited defense of science against encroaching political and economic forces.
A masterful summation of the principles underlying Bourdieu's oeuvre and a memoir of his own scientific journey, "Science of Science and Reflexivity" is a capstone to one of the most important and prodigious careers in the field of sociology.

Epistemology, as generally understood by philosophers of science, is rather remote from the history of science and from historical concerns in general. Rheinberger shows that, from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth century, a parallel, alternative discourse sought to come to terms with the rather fundamental experience of the thoroughgoing scientific changes brought on by the revolution in physics. Philosophers of science and historians of science alike contributed their share to what this essay describes as an ongoing quest to historicize epistemology. Historical epistemology, in this sense, is not so concerned with the knowing subject and its mental capacities. Rather, it envisages science as an ongoing cultural endeavor and tries to assess the conditions under which the sciences in all their diversity take shape and change over time.

A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.
This book contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn’s unfinished book, The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development, which Kuhn himself described as a return to the central claims of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and the problems that it raised but did not resolve. The Plurality of Worlds is preceded by two related texts that Kuhn publicly delivered but never published in English: his paper “Scientific Knowledge as a Historical Product” and his Shearman Memorial Lectures, “The Presence of Past Science.” An introduction by the editor describes the origins and structure of The Plurality of Worlds and sheds light on its central philosophical problems.
Kuhn’s aims in his last writings are bold. He sets out to develop an empirically grounded theory of meaning that would allow him to make sense of both the possibility of historical understanding and the inevitability of incommensurability between past and present science. In his view, incommensurability is fully compatible with a robust notion of the real world that science investigates, the rationality of scientific change, and the idea that scientific development is progressive.

Defining the lives of a majority of the world’s population, the question of ‘the city’ has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time – uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research. Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute ‘the city’ today. Case studies range from the ‘laboratory urbanism' of an Austrian ski resort and a ‘sustainable’ Swedish shopping mall to the ‘urbicidal’ refurbishments of Haifa.
Review
This collection unfolds new urban research. The unlimited city extends to all urban practices: passers-by, tourists, sports players and the homeless who merge with indigenous people, settlers, prostitutes and workers to striate the common local space or resist administrative tasks. Research becomes central to this collective assemblage, transversing between times and hierarchies. A great experiment!
-- Anne Querrien, co-editor of the French journal Multitudes and former co-editor of Les Annales de la Recherche Urbaine
From the Inside Flap
Author approvedAdd endorsementDispels the old question of what the city is, asking instead what it can doDefining the livelihood of a majority of the worlds population, the question of the city has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research.Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattaris philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute the city today.Dispelling the old question of what the city is, asking instead what it can do, this collection provides a nuanced mapping of situations emerging in concrete urban settings across the globe, ranging from the laboratory urbanism of an Austrian ski resort to a sustainable Swedish shopping mall.Hélène Frichot is Associate Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture. Catharina Gabrielsson is Assistant Professor in Urban Theory and Jonathan Metzger is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Studies. They are all based at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden.
From the Back Cover
Author approved Add endorsement Dispels the old question of what the city is, asking instead what it can do Defining the livelihood of a majority of the world’s population, the question of ‘the city’ has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time – uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research. Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute ‘the city’ today. Dispelling the old question of what the city is, asking instead what it can do, this collection provides a nuanced mapping of situations emerging in concrete urban settings across the globe, ranging from the ‘laboratory urbanism‘ of an Austrian ski resort to a ‘sustainable’ Swedish shopping mall. Hélène Frichot is Associate Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture. Catharina Gabrielsson is Assistant Professor in Urban Theory and Jonathan Metzger is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Studies. They are all based at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden.

艾蒂安·巴里巴尔是当今法国著名的马克思主义哲学家，曾是法国马克思主义理论代表阿尔都塞的学生和最重要的合作者。本书对欧洲哲学史传统中重要的唯物主义代表斯宾诺莎的几大基础文本做了细致的解读，力图呈现出斯宾诺莎与现代革命思想之间的深刻联系，特别是提供了阿尔都塞学派自身的知识密码，既是阿尔都塞学派政治哲学史研究的代表作品，也开创了当代左翼思想家解读斯宾诺莎的先河。

为什么要收录这些几乎长达二十年的访谈文字？有时候，一些发声持续了如此长的时间以至于我们不知道它们是否仍然是斗争的一部分，或是已经和解。诚然，哲学与对时代的愤怒不可分离，但它同样也给我们带来了安宁。
哲学不是一种强权。宗教、国家、资本主义、科学、法律、舆论、电视这些都是强权，但哲学不是。哲学内部会有大的斗争（观念论与实在论，等等），但这些都是欢笑之争。因为不是强权，哲学不能对那些强权发动战役，而只能对它们发动一场没有战役的战争，一场游击战。哲学不同强权讲话，哲学没有什么要说的，也没有什么要与之沟通的，它只是在发声。那些强权不满足于只是外在的，它们同样贯穿于我们每一个人身上，因此，我们每一个人都处于不断的发声和与自己的游击战之中——这就是哲学的用处。

First published 10 years ago, Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy rapidly established itself as a landmark text in contemporary continental thought. DeLanda here draws on the realist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to the domain of philosophy of science. As well as contemporary philosophical insights, the book also tackles new developments in geometry, complexity theory and chaos theory to bring new insights to our understanding of a scientific knowledge liberated from traditional ideas of essence. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this edition includes a new preface by Delanda, revisiting the themes of his book ten years on.

This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology. The strong Anglophone interest in historical epistemology, since at least the 1990s, is typically attributed to its simultaneously philosophical and historical synthetic approach to the study of science. Yet this account, considered by critics to be an unreflective assumption, has prevented historical epistemology from developing a clear understanding and definition, especially regarding how precisely historical and philosophical reflections on the sciences should be combined. Thus, this book uniquely analyses how the problems and tensions inherent to the “contemporary” phase of historical epistemology can be clarified by reference to the “classical” French phase. The archaeological method of Michel Foucault, which draws on and transforms fundamental insights by Gaston Bachelard and Georges Canguilhem, is used to exert an enduring influence on the field―especially through the work of Ian Hacking and his philosophical cum historical analyses of “styles of scientific reasoning”. Though this book is of great value to academic specialists and graduate students, the fact it addresses questions broad in scope ensures it is also relevant to a range of scholars in many disciplines and will provoke discussion among those interested in foundational issues in history and philosophy of science.

如果把人比作一棵树，那么这棵树不仅需要阳光、水分、大地的滋养，还需要自由、责任、荣誉、平等、秩序、集体等供灵魂成长、发育的养分。只有如此，这棵树才能有茁壮的根系，才能健康地成长。一个人通过真实、活跃地参与某一集体的生存实践而拥有一个扎根的状态。但是战争、饥荒、贫穷、疾病、失业、异化的教育等等都会切除人们的根系，使人处于拔根的状态。
本书写于薇依生命的最后一年，是她应戴高乐自由法兰西内务部之约，为法国光复后如何进行建设而写的一份报告。面对被战争拔根的法国人，薇依针对当时的各种问题进行了广泛深入的思考。战后的法国该如何建设，工人、农民、知识分子、党派、法兰西民族该如何扎根，薇依用激情澎湃的文字，给出了她的答案。

本书精心挑选了柏格森的两部著作《论意识的直接材料》与《物质与记忆》进行阐述，对柏格森的思想进行了较为全面的阐述。本书探讨了柏格森的生平、主要思想以及后来的哲学家对柏格森的解读。通过对柏格森所处时代的科学发展背景的探讨，作者首次揭示出柏格森的思想演变与他所处时代的科学发展的关系。柏格森在这两本书中逐渐发展出了他与众不同的时间概念，这个时间概念不是指的物理或科学时间，而是生命体的时间，也就是生命。柏格森哲学对其后的后现代哲学、当代的文学艺术理论都产生了巨大的影响，本书则言简意赅地用较短的篇幅展现了这—影响。

理解科学与宗教的关系对于深入理解西方近代科学的兴起或科学革命起着至关重要的作用。彼得·哈里森是目前研究科学与宗教关系的顶尖学者，在这本书中，他考察了圣经在自然科学的兴起过程中所起的作用，显示了圣经的内容，尤其是它被诠释的方式，对公元3世纪到17世纪的自然观产生了深远的影响。近代科学的兴起与新教处理文本的方法有关，这种方法宣告了中世纪象征世界的结束，为科学地研究自然和用技术开发自然确立了条件。

本书为科学知识提供了一个以宗教为基础的解释，作者哈里森展示了16世纪和17世纪出现的研究自然的方法是如何直接从神学的讨论中得到启发，其内容关于人类的堕落以及精神和感官在多大程度上受到了原初事件的破坏。他认为，科学方法*初是作为改善人类罪行造成的认知损害的技术而设计的。现代科学在诞生之初就被定义为一种重新获得亚当关于自然的知识的方法。与通常认为科学与宗教冲突的观点相反，哈里森认为神学上的考虑对科学方法的构建至关重要。

《哥白尼革命》是科学哲学家托马斯·库恩（Thomas S. Kuhn，1922－1996）的代表作之一，是其部著作，也是其影响大的《科学革命的结构》一书的姊妹篇，《科学革命的结构》中的核心观念——“范式”及科学增长模式——在本书中均有雏形。 本书脱胎于库恩在哈佛大学讲授的科学通识课，它不仅准确地详述了许多天文学概念和技术性细节，还以大量篇幅描述了哥白尼革命各个发展阶段的社会文化背景，将科学的内部史和外部史自然地结合在一起，突出了哥白尼革命多元性的结构和意义。

本书是一部经典的科学史著作。它考察了中世纪科学的成就，并从哲学、宗教、体制等方面令人信服地表明，与流行的看法相反，近代科学并非源于16、17世纪的科学革命，而是植根于古代和中世纪。有四种关键因素使中世纪欧洲为新科学做了准备：（1）希腊-阿拉伯的自然哲学著作于12、13世纪被译成拉丁文；（2）中世纪大学的发展；（3）基督教面对世俗学问所作出的调整；（4）亚里士多德自然哲学的转变。本书语言流畅，内容平易，适合对科学史和西方文化史感兴趣的人士阅读。

科学革命的一个成果是，人们开始设想一种研究政府、个体行为和社会的社会科学，其运作方式能与新兴的自然科学相媲美。这样便启动了这两个领域之间漫长而复杂的双向互动，时至今日仍然影响着学术和公共政策。本书从科学史的视角考察了自然科学在概念、原理或方法上对社会科学产生的巨大影响，以及科学革命时期自然科学与社会科学的关系，为这个鲜有人问津的学术领域提供了重要资料。
以科学史的眼光重新审视社会科学与自然科学之间的关系，通过丰富的历史细节展现了现代自然科学在概念和方法上对社会科学产生的巨大影响，并引发我们思考二者真正意义上的“互动”。
——李猛，北京大学哲学系教授
谈物质世界和社会世界各自是什么的著作很多，谈自然科学和社会科学互动的著作很少，像这样的经典就更少。
——朱天飚，浙江大学人文高等研究院教授、常务副院长

This is a book about the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) which shows how relevant Bergson is to much contemporary philosophy. The book takes as its point of departure Bergson's insistence on precision in philosophy. It then discusses a variety of topics including laughter, the nature of time as experienced, how intelligence and language should be construed as a pragmatic product of evolution, and the antinomies of reason represented by magic and religion. This is not just another exposition of Bergson's work. It offers an account of why Bergson commanded such a massive reading public in his own day and why he deserves to be read now. Written in a terse and clear style, this book will prove appealing to teachers and students of philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, religious studies and literature.

“《知识机器》是继库恩的《科学革命的结构》（1970）之后最重要的科哲成就。”
——刘闯（复旦大学、中国科学院哲学研究所）
-
关注科学变革人类社会的强大力量
当代哲学家的深刻回顾与新思考
纽约大学教授、古根海姆奖得主迈克尔·斯特雷文斯新作
尹烨、江晓原、田涛、万维钢 倾情推荐
-
科学为什么如此强大？
科学为什么在人类历史上来得如此之晚？
是什么铁律在统治和支配着科学？
这本书要回答的，就是以上问题。作者回顾了科学诞生和发展的历史，对哲学家的思想及研究进行了梳理和总结，提出了统治科学的“铁律”。在这本书中，他对两千年间多位杰出的思想家、科学家进行了栩栩如生的刻画，也用生动的笔触和形象的比喻带领读者走到许多个科学争辩的历史现场，还原了科学工作的真实面貌，呈现了一场细致入微的科学与思考的探索之旅。
斯特雷文斯将近现代科学称作“知识机器”，它是能够给人类社会带来巨大变革的机器，能够不断创新并且具有实证性。通过对科学历程的梳理，斯特雷文斯向我们揭示，科学家绝非毫无偏见或者私心的完人，但在科学铁律的约束下，他们自发地把偏见与私欲排除在了科学实证研究的范围之外，在科学争论中，一切都按照游戏规则来。这正是《知识机器》中所揭示的，是解释的铁律造就了近现代科学，并令这一知识机器以如此大的能量持续改造人类社会及文明。
如今，面对全球气候问题、肆虐的流行病等种种问题，我们人类尤其需要来自知识机器的建议。对此，作者也给出了自己的建议——“重视和赞扬知识机器，给予它成长所需的自主权”。