Some combinations of attitudes--of beliefs, credences, intentions, preferences, hopes, fears, and so on--do not fit together right: they are incoherent. A natural idea is that there are requirements of "structural rationality" that forbid us from being in these incoherent states. Yet a number of surprisingly difficult challenges arise for this idea. These challenges have recent...(展开全部)

In Kant and the Demands of Self-Consciousness, Pierre Keller examines Kant's theory of self-consciousness and argues that it succeeds in explaining how both subjective and objective experience are possible. Previous interpretations of Kant's theory have held that he treats all self-consciousness as knowledge of objective states of affairs, and also that self-consciousness can b...(展开全部)

Jon Elster has written a comprehensive, wide-ranging book on the emotions in which he considers the full range of theoretical approaches. Drawing on history, literature, philosophy and psychology, Elster presents a complete account of the role of the emotions in human behaviour. While acknowledging the importance of neurophysiology and laboratory experiment for the study of emo...(展开全部)

An important division in the human mind is between perception and reasoning. Perceptual experiences are conscious, but much of our reasoning is unconscious. Reasoning can be better or worse, but perception is considered beyond reproach. We reason from information that we have already, but perception is a means of getting new information. The Rationality of Perception argues tha...(展开全部)

Ralph Wedgwood gives a general account of the concept of rationality. The Value of Rationality is designed as the first instalment of a trilogy - to be followed by accounts of the requirements of rationality that apply specifically to beliefs and choices. The central claim of the book is that rationality is a normative concept. This claim is defended against some recent objecti...(展开全部)

Professor Tambiah, one of today's leading anthropologists, is known particularly for his penetrating and scholarly studies of Buddhism. In this accessible and illuminating book he deals with the classical opposition between magic, science and religion. He reviews the great debates in classical Judaism, early Greek science, Renaissance philosophy, the Protestant Reformation, and...(展开全部)

罗伯特·海涅曼(RobertA．Heineman)，美国阿尔弗雷德大学政治学教授，曾经被选为联邦政府、州政府和地方政府的幕僚。他的主要著作有《威权与自由主义传统》(1984，1994)、《政治学导论》(1996)。 威廉·布卢姆(William T.Blutun)。美国罗彻斯特大学政治学名誉退休教授。他在芝加哥大学获得博士学位，主要著作包括《政治系统理论》(1965，1972，1978)、《建立一个奥地利国家》(1973)、《意识形态和态度》(1974)以及《暴力还是自由》(1984)。 史蒂文·彼得森(Steven A．Peterson)，美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学(哈里斯堡)公共事务学院院长、政治与公共事务学院教授。曾任纽约州政治学学会会长和东北部政治学学会会长。他在《政治学》、《美国政治学》《西部政治季刊》和《政府制度》上发表多篇论...(展开全部)

This is a book about structures that shows students how to "see" structures as integral to architecture, and how knowledge of structures is the basis for understanding both the mechanical and conceptual aspects inherent to the art of building. Analyzing the structural principles behind many of the best known works of architecture from past and present alike, this book places th...(展开全部)

In Rationality and the Reflective Mind, Keith Stanovich attempts to resolve the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive science--the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. He shows how the insights of dual-process theory and evolutionary psychology can be combined to explain why humans are sometimes irrational even though they possess remarkably adapti...(展开全部)

Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato’s true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial Plato’s Philosophers, Catherine Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understan...(展开全部)