Epistemic norms play an increasingly important role in many current debates in epistemology and beyond. Paramount among these are debates about belief, action, and assertion. Three primary questions organize the literature. What epistemic requirements constrain appropriate belief? What epistemic requirements constrain appropriate assertion? What epistemic requirements constrain...(展开全部)

Epistemic Blame is the first book-length philosophical examination of our practice of criticizing one another for epistemic failings. People clearly evaluate and critique one another for forming unjustified beliefs, harbouring biases, and pursuing faulty methods of inquiry. But what is the nature of this criticism? Does it ever amount to a kind of blame? And should we blame one...(展开全部)

Epistemic Blame is the first book-length philosophical examination of our practice of criticizing one another for epistemic failings. People clearly evaluate and critique one another for forming unjustified beliefs, harbouring biases, and pursuing faulty methods of inquiry. But what is the nature of this criticism? Does it ever amount to a kind of blame? And should we blame one...(展开全部)

This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, and Don DeLillo, Wood relates their fiction to questions of re...(展开全部)

关于作者 詹姆斯·伍德（James Wood），1965年生，英国批评家、散文家、小说家，曾任《卫报》首席文学批评家、《新共和》资深编辑，现为《纽约客》专栏作家、哈佛大学文学教授，著有《破格》（1999）、《忤逆上帝之书》（2004）、《不负责任的自我》（2004）、《 小说机杼》（2009）、《私货》（2013）、《最接近生活的事物》（2015）。 关于译者 黄远帆，上海外国语大学比较文学和世界文学系文学硕士。译有《小说机杼》、《破格》、《每个爱情故事都是鬼故事：大卫·福斯特·华莱士传》等。

关于作者 詹姆斯·伍德（James Wood），1965年生，英国批评家、散文家、小说家，曾任《卫报》首席文学批评家、《新共和》资深编辑，现为《纽约客》专栏作家、哈佛大学文学教授，著有《破格》（1999）、《忤逆上帝之书》（2004）、《不负责任的自我》（2004）、《 小说机杼》（2009）、《私货》（2013）、《最接近生活的事物》（2015）。 关于译者 黄远帆，上海外国语大学比较文学和世界文学系文学硕士。译有《小说机杼》、《破格》、《每个爱情故事都是鬼故事：大卫·福斯特·华莱士传》等。

This book recalls an era when criticism could change the way we look at the world. In the tradition of Matthew Arnold and Edmund Wilson, James Wood reads literature expansively, always pursuing its role and destiny in our lives. In a series of essays about such figures as Melville, Flaubert, Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, and Don DeLillo, Wood relates their fiction to questions of re...(展开全部)

Philip Pettit has drawn together here a series of interconnected essays on three subjects to which he has made notable contributions. The first part of the book deals with the rule-following character of thought. The second discusses the many factors to which choice is rationally responsive - and by reference to which choice can be explained - consistently with being under the ...(展开全部)

Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek’s essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is at heart an ethical one—we may not always be good or just, but we are always subject to their criteria...(展开全部)