Ernest Sosa extends his distinctive approach to epistemology, intertwining issues concerning the role of the will in judgment and belief with issues of epistemic evaluation. Questions about skepticism and the nature of knowledge are at the forefront. The answers defended are new in their explicit and sustained focus on judgment and epistemic agency. While noting that human know...(展开全部)

简介：故事由选择来决定（自由选择）

The central problem of social theory is 'structure and agency'. How do the objective features of society influence human agents? Determinism is not the answer, nor is conditioning as currently conceptualised. It accentuates the way structure and culture shape the social context in which individuals operate, but it neglects our personal capacity to define what we care about most...(展开全部)

New Materialisms rethinks the relevance of materialist philosophy in the midst of a world shaped by forces such as digital and biotechnologies, global warming, global capital, and population flows. Moving away from modes of inquiry that have prioritized the study of consciousness and subjectivity over matter, the essays in this collection show that any account of experience, ag...(展开全部)

Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view, and questions the criteria that accord art status only to a certain class of obj...(展开全部)

Review This book changes the very basis of the way art has been viewed in the human sciences. It presents what is the first fundamental theory for an anthropology of art. Its publication is a major event. Maurice Bloch, FBA, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics. This is a remarkable work ... witty, elegant, broad in its compass and scintillating in its detail. ...(展开全部)

[close] Christine M. Korsgaard presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation. Moral philosophy aspires to understand the fact that human actions, unlike the actions of the other animals, can be morally good or bad, right or wrong. Few moral philosophers, however, have exploited the idea that actions might be morally good or bad in virtue of bein...(展开全部)

德克•佩里布姆（1957— ） 康奈尔大学哲学与伦理学专业的“苏珊•林恩•塞奇”坐席教授，研究领域包括自由意志和道德责任、精神哲学、宗教哲学，以及伊曼纽尔•康德的作品。在线版《斯坦福大学哲学百科全书》中“行动理论”部分的合编者，并为该百科全书撰写词条。著作包括《没有自由意志的生活》（2001）、《意识与物理主义的前景》（2011）、《自由意志、能动性与生命的意义》（2014）等。

德克•佩里布姆（1957— ） 康奈尔大学哲学与伦理学专业的“苏珊•林恩•塞奇”坐席教授，研究领域包括自由意志和道德责任、精神哲学、宗教哲学，以及伊曼纽尔•康德的作品。在线版《斯坦福大学哲学百科全书》中“行动理论”部分的合编者，并为该百科全书撰写词条。著作包括《没有自由意志的生活》（2001）、《意识与物理主义的前景》（2011）、《自由意志、能动性与生命的意义》（2014）等。

This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded in a power-distributional view of institutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also over prevailing institutional arrangements. Five empirical essays then bring th...(展开全部)