This remarkable collection contains some of the very best work on themes developed by Hans Kelsen, regarded by many as the most influential legal philosopher of the twentieth century. The volume addresses in rich detail the topic where debate on Kelsen's work has been liveliest: 'normativity' as Kelsen's alternative to both traditional legal positivism and natural law theory. T...(展开全部)

肖恩•塞耶斯（Sean Sayers），英国肯特大学哲学系荣休教授，《马克思与哲学书评》主编，世界知名的马克思主义哲学家，主要以新黑格尔主义的马克思主义视角对黑格尔和马克思哲学进行研究，在社会哲学、伦理学、认识论、形而上学和逻辑学等领域都有所建树，并曾对弗洛伊德的精神分析学说进行过阐释。目前的研究主题集中在马克思与黑格尔的关联性上。主要著作有《马克思主义与人性》《现实与理性》《黑格尔、马克思与辩证法》等。

The various perspectives of the field of personality provide the organizing framework for this text. Each perspective is presented in two chapters and is introduced by a prologue that describes the assumptions and themes of the perspective. As the book's title implies, there are many perspectives a person might take on personality, many ways to think about human nature. This b...(展开全部)

Informative, yet engaging – viewpoints of personality psychologists today Written in an informal, conversational style, Carver and Scheier engage students by helping them understandhow various perspectives of the field of personality can apply to their own lives. This book describes a range of viewpoints that are used by personality psychologists today. Each per...(展开全部)

The various perspectives of the field of personality provide the organizing framework: each perspective is presented in two chapters and is introduced by a prologue that describes the assumptions and themes of the perspective. Engaging and very successful, this new edition introduces hundreds of new citations; presents the ideas logically and orderly and concludes with a unique...(展开全部)

Claims about what is metaphysically necessary or possible have long played a central role in metaphysics and other areas of philosophy. Such claims are traditionally thought of as aiming to describe a special kind of modal fact or property, or perhaps facts about other possible worlds. But that assumption leads to difficult ontological, epistemological, and methodological puzzl...(展开全部)

It is not an exaggeration to say that Allan Gibbard is one of the most significant contributors to philosophy over the last five decades. Gibbard’s work covers an impressive number of subfields within philosophy, including ethics, philosophy of language, decision theory, epistemology, and metaphysics. It also engages with, and makes significant contributions to, work from the n...(展开全部)

Do we control what we believe? Are we responsible for what we believe? These two questions are connected: the kind of responsibility we have for our beliefs depends on the form of control that we have over them. For a number of years David Owens has investigated what form of control we must have over something in order to be held to the norms governing that thing, and has argue...(展开全部)

What does talk of meaning mean? All thinking consists in natural happenings in the brain. Talk of meaning though, has resisted interpretation in terms of anything that is clearly natural, such as linguistic dispositions. This, Kripke's Wittgenstein suggests, is because the concept of meaning is normative, on the 'ought' side of Hume's divide between is and ought. Allan Gibbard...(展开全部)