托马斯·谢林，1921年出生于美国加利福尼亚州的奥克兰市，是美国著名学者、经济学家，也是有限战争理论的奠基人之一，还是外交事务、国家安全、核战略以及军备控制方面的研究专家。1944年获伯克利加利福尼亚大学文学学士学位，1948年获哈佛大学文学硕士学位，1951年获哈佛大学哲学博士学位。他曾获政治经济学领域著名的“弗兰克·赛德曼奖”；他曾因对预防核战争的相关行为的研究而获“国家自然科学奖”。其主要著作有《国民收入行为》、《国防经济学》、《冲突的战略》等等。

Thomas Schelling is a political economist "conspicuous for wandering" an errant economist. In "Choice and Consequence," he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as awesome as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating a...(展开全部)

This open access book makes a case for extending logic beyond its traditional boundaries, to encompass not only statements but also also questions. The motivations for this extension are examined in detail. It is shown that important notions, including logical answerhood and dependency, emerge as facets of the fundamental notion of entailment once logic is extended to questions...(展开全部)

A barrier to entailment exists if you can't get conclusions of a certain kind from premises of another. One of the most famous barriers in philosophy is Hume's Law, which says that you can't get normative conclusions from descriptive premises, or in slogan form: you can't get an ought from an is. This barrier is highly controversial, and many famous counterexamples were propose...(展开全部)

From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America’s political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans. He launched George W. Bush to national renown by unseating a popular Democratic governor, and then orchestrated a GOP White House win at a time when voters had little r...(展开全部)

From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America's political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans. He launched George W. Bush to national renown by unseating a popular Democratic governor, and then orchestrated a GOP White House win at a time when voters had little r...(展开全部)