在线阅读本书 In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and human?

在线阅读本书 In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and human?

Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what’s essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false beliefs. It...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·欧文·韦瑟罗尔（James Owen Weatherall） 美国加州大学尔湾分校逻辑与科学哲学系主任，逻辑与科学哲学教授，数学行为科学研究所研究员，科学哲学协会期刊《科学哲学》副主编。曾在斯坦福大学、匹兹堡大学、澳大利亚国立大学、剑桥大学、伦敦政治经济学院等高校担任客座研究员。主要研究涉及经典场论和量子场论的数学与概念基础、一般科学哲学，尤其对构建金融模型、范畴论、原子物理、量子控制、量子力学等有浓厚兴趣。著有《对冲之王：华尔街量化投资传奇》（The Physics of Wall Street）、《虚空：关于虚无的奇异物理学》（Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing）等。 凯林·奥康纳（Cailin O’Connor） 美国加州大学尔湾分校逻辑与科学哲学系教授，生物学和行为科学哲学家，进化博弈理论家。曾任...(展开全部)

◎ 作者简介 大卫•班布里基（David Bainbridge），英国剑桥大学临床兽医解剖学家，圣凯瑟琳学院（St Catharine’s College）的艺术与人文领域研究员。受过完整兽医师训练，在摄政公园动物学研究中心（Institute of Zoology）、 皇家兽医学院（Royal Veterinary College）、康奈尔大学、悉尼大学和牛津大学做过人类、动物怀孕的研究。曾出版科普作品，以动物学方法研究人类生理特性，包括怀孕、基因和性别、头脑和青春期。 …………………… ◎ 译者简介 周沛郁，台湾森林系硕士。在森林里待了七年之后，还是放不开对文学和语言的热爱，于是投身翻译。

David Bainbridge is a vet with a particular interest in evolutionary zoology - and he has just turned forty. As well as the usual concerns about greying hair, failing eyesight and goldfish levels of forgetfulness, he finds himself pondering some bigger questions: have I come to the end of my productive life as a human being? And what I am now for? By looking afresh at the lates...(展开全部)

This re-issue of F. W. Maitland's translation of a vital section from Otto Gierke's monumental Das Deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht makes available once again one of the seminal texts in the historiography of political thought. Famed, inter alia, for the elegance and lucidity of Maitland's own expository introduction, Political Theories of the Middle Age is concerned in essence wi...(展开全部)

Panda Books Shen Rong At Middle Age--人到中年