Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with the challenge of scientific natu...(展开全部)

布罗尼斯拉夫·马林诺夫斯基（Bronislaw Malinowski，1884年—1942年），生于波兰，在英国成为著名人类学家。他是现代人类学的奠基人之一，倡导以功能论的思想和方法论从事文化的研究，著有《文化论》，讲述功能派的文化理论；《西太平洋的航海者》典范地展示现代田野工作与民族志方法；《文化动态论》，讲述文化变迁分析的方法，指出文化不是历史的残存，而是人生活的工具。 李安宅，1900年生，河北省迁安县人。字仁斋，笔名任责。中国著名社会学、人类学、民族学家。1926年燕京大学社会学系毕业，后赴美国深造。1938年赴甘肃拉卜楞寺对藏传佛教进行实地考察，后任教于成都华西大学。1947年到1949年在美英从事研究工作。1950年进藏任教。1962年任教于四川师范学院，1985年逝世。一生致力于民族学、宗教学、社会学、藏学的研究。译著和专著有《巫术科学...(展开全部)

The author reviews the Confucian tradition through the two concepts, religion and humanities. Chinese scholars always adopt Zongjiao and Renwen from the ancient Chinese documents as the Chinese translation of religion and humanities. In respect of their own contexts of culture, the Chinese words and the English words share some similarities in meaning, but also have some vital ...(展开全部)

Beyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today. Countering conventional aesthetic theories - those maintaining that authorial intention, art history, morality and emotional responses are irrelevant to the experience of art - Noel Carroll argues for a more pluralistic and commonsen...(展开全部)

Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use. Leading thinkers in the field explore various ways this idea may be challenged as well as obstacles to dev...(展开全部)