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)

Bias seems to be everywhere. Biased media outlets decisively influence the political opinions and votes of millions of people. Discriminatory policies favor some racial groups over others. We tend to judge ourselves more favorably than our peers, and more favorably than the evidence warrants. But what is it, exactly, for a person or thing to be biased? In Bias: A Philosophical ...(展开全部)

An investigation into Aristotle's metaphysics of nature as expounded in the Physics. It focuses in particular his conception of change, a concept which is shown to possess a unique metaphysical structure, with implications that should engage the attention of contemporary analysis. First published in hardback in 1982, the book is now available for the first time in paperback. 'A...(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)

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)

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)

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》

斯坦利·罗森（1929-2014），美国波士顿大学荣休教授，著名哲学家。师从施特劳斯和科耶夫，其关注点为哲学的基本问题，以及哲学史上从柏拉图到海德格尔等里程碑式的人物。主要代表作有：《柏拉图的<会饮>》、《虚无主义：哲学反思》、《柏拉图<理想国>新解》、《启蒙的面具：读<查拉图斯特拉如是说>》、《存在之问：颠转海德格尔》、《诗与哲学之争》等。 译者马津，中山大学国际翻译学院讲师。分别于2000年、2005年和2012年获得中山大学外国语学院英语语言文学专业学士、硕士和博士学位，2011年获得法国让∙莫兰里昂第三大学跨文化研究博士学位。研究方向为当代西方批评理论和跨文化研究。