With the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to his work, Ian Hacking here offers his reflections on the philosophical uses of history. The focus of this volume, which collects both recent and now-classic essays, is the historical emergence of concepts and objects, through new uses of words and se...(展开全部)

With the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to his work, Ian Hacking here offers his reflections on the philosophical uses of history. The focus of this volume, which collects both recent and now-classic essays, is the historical emergence of concepts and objects, through new uses of words and se...(展开全部)

Formal ontology as a main branch of metaphysics investigates categories of being. In the formal ontological approach to metaphysics, these ontological categories are analysed by ontological forms. This analysis, which the Element illustrates by some category systems, provides a tool to assess the clarity, exactness and intelligibility of different category systems or formal ont...(展开全部)

Formal ontology as a main branch of metaphysics investigates categories of being. In the formal ontological approach to metaphysics, these ontological categories are analysed by ontological forms. This analysis, which the Element illustrates by some category systems, provides a tool to assess the clarity, exactness and intelligibility of different category systems or formal ont...(展开全部)

Our experience of objects (and consequently our theorizing about them) is very rich. We perceive objects as possessing individuation conditions. They appear to have boundaries in space and time, for example, and they appear to move independently of a background of other objects or a landscape. In Ontology Without Boundaries Jody Azzouni undertakes an analysis of our concept of ...(展开全部)

In the decades following Quine, debates about existence have taken center stage in the metaphysics. But neo-Quinean ontology has reached a crisis point, given the endless proliferation of positions and lack of any clear idea of how to resolve debates. The most prominent challenge to mainstream ontological debates has come from the idea that disputants can be seen as using the q...(展开全部)

In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgements can properly be considered objective - a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century. Looking at the efforts of philosophers from the Enlightenment through the twentieth century, Hilary Putnam traces the ways in which ethical problems ...(展开全部)

Looking at the efforts of philosophers from the Enlightenment through the 20th Century, Hilary Putnam traces the ways in which ethical problems arise in a historical context. Putnam's central concern is ontology - indeed, the very idea of ontology as the division of philosophy concerned with what (ultimately) exists. Reviewing what he deems the disastrous consequences of ontolo...(展开全部)

Amie Thomasson is Professor of Philosophy and Cooper Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami. She is the author of Ordinary Objects and Fiction and Metaphysics, and co-editor (with David W. Smith) of Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. In addition, she has published more than 50 book chapters and articles on topics in metaphysics, metaontology, ficti...(展开全部)

作者介绍 威尔弗里德·斯托克·塞拉斯（Wilfrid Stalker Sellars，1912－1989） 美国哲学家，先后在密歇根大学、布法罗大学、牛津大学和哈佛大学学习，在爱荷华大学、明尼苏达大学、耶鲁大学和匹兹堡大学执教。一生著述百余，内容涉猎广泛、视野宽阔、原创深刻、系统连贯、极富启发。主要著作有《科学、感知与实在》《哲学视角》《科学与形而上学：康德主题变奏曲》《哲学与哲学史文集》《自然主义与存在论》《纯粹语用学与种种可能世界》《康德与前康德主题：威尔弗里德·塞拉斯讲座》《康德的先验形而上学：塞拉斯的卡西尔讲座及其他文集》《在理由的空间：威尔弗里德·塞拉斯文选》等。荣誉主要有洛克讲座（1966）、杜威讲座（1974）、卡卢斯讲座（1977）、卡西尔讲座（1979）等，尤其是伦敦大学讲座（1956），内容以“经验主义与心灵哲学”为题发表，被公...(展开全部)