Dr. Jan English Lueck is a Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University and an active Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future. In 2004, she was selected Outstanding Professor at San Jose State University. Dr. English Lueck has a doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied social change and community life among alternative h...(展开全部)

Dr. Jan English Lueck is a Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University and an active Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Future. In 2004, she was selected Outstanding Professor at San Jose State University. Dr. English Lueck has a doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied social change and community life among alternative h...(展开全部)

This Element provides an opinionated introduction to the debate in moral philosophy over identifying the basic elements of well-being and to the related debate over the nature of happiness. The question of the nature of happiness is simply the question of what happiness is (as opposed to what causes it or how to get it), and the central philosophical question about well-being i...(展开全部)

In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaña argues for a cluster of theses related to the rationality of action and belief. His starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief. From there, Comesaña provides a novel account of empirical evidence according to which said evidence consists of the content of undefeated experiences. Thi...(展开全部)

In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaña argues for a cluster of theses related to the rationality of action and belief. His starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief. From there, Comesaña provides a novel account of empirical evidence according to which said evidence consists of the content of undefeated experiences. Thi...(展开全部)

Well-being occupies a central role in ethics and political philosophy, including in major theories such as utilitarianism. It also extends far beyond philosophy: recent studies into the science and psychology of well-being have propelled the topic to centre stage, and governments spend millions on promoting it. We are encouraged to adopt modes of thinking and behaviour that sup...(展开全部)

Grounded in the reality of the violence and abuse inherent in prostitution—and reeling from the death of a friend to prostitution in Spain—Kajsa Ekis Ekman exposes the many lies in the ‘sex work’ scenario. Trade unions aren’t trade unions. Groups for prostituted women are simultaneously groups for brothel owners. And prostitution is always presented from a woman’s point of view...(展开全部)

"What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism—as well as existentialism and much of postmodern thought— Being and Time forever changed the intellectual map of the...(展开全部)

◆ 作者介绍————————————————————————————— 加布里埃尔·马赛尔(Gabriel Marcel，1889—1973)，法国哲学家，与海德格尓、雅斯贝尔斯、萨特并列为20世纪四大存在哲学大师，影响深远。其哲学奠定后来梅洛-庞蒂的知觉／身体现象学，诠释现象学巨擘保罗·利科亦视其为自己早期的引路人。著有《是与有》《临在与不死》《论人的尊严》等。

◆ 作者介绍————————————————————————————— 加布里埃尔·马赛尔(Gabriel Marcel，1889—1973)，法国哲学家，与海德格尓、雅斯贝尔斯、萨特并列为20世纪四大存在哲学大师，影响深远。其哲学奠定后来梅洛-庞蒂的知觉／身体现象学，诠释现象学巨擘保罗·利科亦视其为自己早期的引路人。著有《是与有》《临在与不死》《论人的尊严》等。