Our world is enormously sophisticated and nature's complexity is literally inexhaustible. As a result, projects to describe and explain natural science can never be completed. This volume explores the nature of complexity and considers its bearing on our world and how we manage our affairs within it. Rescher's overall lesson is that the management of our affairs within a social...(展开全部)

Our world is enormously sophisticated and nature's complexity is literally inexhaustible. As a result, projects to describe and explain natural science can never be completed. This volume explores the nature of complexity and considers its bearing on our world and how we manage our affairs within it. Rescher's overall lesson is that the management of our affairs within a social...(展开全部)

As science probes the nature of life, society, and technology ever more closely, what it finds there is complexity. The sophisticated group behavior of social insects, the unexpected intricacies of the genome, the dynamics of population growth, and the self-organized structure of the World Wide Web - these are just a few examples of complex systems that still elude scientific u...(展开全部)

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that se...(展开全部)

尼尔·约翰逊（Neil Johnson），美国乔治·华盛顿大学的物理学教授，他在那里领导了一项将跨学科基础研究与数据科学相结合以解决复杂实际问题的新倡议。在此之前，约翰逊在牛津大学、哥伦比亚大学和迈阿密大学等多个学术机构都担任物理学教授和复杂科学项目负责人。

Touching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grgoire Chamayou examines the systematic and organized search for individuals and small ...(展开全部)

An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an emptiness as ineffectual as a shadow. In fact, 'nothing' is one of the most powerful ideas the human mind has ever conceived. This shor...(展开全部)

Touching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grgoire Chamayou examines the systematic and organized search for individuals and small ...(展开全部)

布莱恩·奥康纳（Brian O’Connor），当代社会哲学家，爱尔兰都柏林大学学院哲学教授，毕业于牛津大学哲学系，曾在剑桥大学做过访问学者，著有《德国唯心主义选集与导读》《闲散的哲学》《阿多诺与消极辩证法》

Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems-situations characterized by interdependent decision processes in which common interests are at stake. Conventions ar...(展开全部)