Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence, written in 1780-2, is the continuation of An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, and thus part of the introduction to the projected penal code on which Bentham worked in the late 1770s and early 1780s. The work emerged from Bentham's attempt to distinguish between civil and penal law, which led him into a...(展开全部)

理查德·A. 波斯纳（Richard A. Posner, 1939- ），先后以第一名毕业于耶鲁大学文学系（1959）和哈佛法学院（1962）。曾任美国联邦最高法院大法官助手、政府律师。联邦司法部副部长助理，总统交通政策特别工作组首席法律顾问等职。后任斯坦福大学和芝加哥大学法学院教授和L.B. 弗雷曼讲座法学教授，联邦上诉法院法官，并担任芝加哥大学法学院法律经济学高级讲座主持人。1981年出任联邦第七巡回区上诉讼院至今（1993-2000年任首席法官），同时担任芝加哥大学法学院高级讲师。 “他是著述最丰的联邦法官，前无古人。任职上诉法院、仍属最高产的法学家之列，同样前无古人。如果以引证率测度影响力，那么当仁不让，波斯纳是世界的最有影响的法学家”（莱西格语）。

理查德·A. 波斯纳（Richard A. Posner, 1939- ），先后以第一名毕业于耶鲁大学文学系（1959）和哈佛法学院（1962）。曾任美国联邦最高法院大法官助手、政府律师。联邦司法部副部长助理，总统交通政策特别工作组首席法律顾问等职。后任斯坦福大学和芝加哥大学法学院教授和L.B. 弗雷曼讲座法学教授，联邦上诉法院法官，并担任芝加哥大学法学院法律经济学高级讲座主持人。1981年出任联邦第七巡回区上诉讼院至今（1993-2000年任首席法官），同时担任芝加哥大学法学院高级讲师。 “他是著述最丰的联邦法官，前无古人。任职上诉法院、仍属最高产的法学家之列，同样前无古人。如果以引证率测度影响力，那么当仁不让，波斯纳是世界的最有影响的法学家”（莱西格语）。

In Impossibility, John D. Barrow--one of our most elegant and accomplished science writers--argues convincingly that there are limits to human discovery, that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable. Barrow first examines the limits of the human mind: our brain evolved to meet the demands of our immediate environment, and much that lies outside...(展开全部)

Barrow, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Sussex, has written a very engaging and even playful book. He attempts to show how certain "laws" governing "Nature" help us to separate the possible from the impossible....Barrow's book enjoyable, informative, and thought provoking.

In Impossibility, John D. Barrow--one of our most elegant and accomplished science writers--argues convincingly that there are limits to human discovery, that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable. Barrow first examines the limits of the human mind: our brain evolved to meet the demands of our immediate environment, and much that lies outside...(展开全部)

Barrow, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Sussex, has written a very engaging and even playful book. He attempts to show how certain "laws" governing "Nature" help us to separate the possible from the impossible....Barrow's book enjoyable, informative, and thought provoking.

Most of us believe that there are limits to the sacrifices that morality can demand of us. We also think that certain types of acts are simply forbidden, even when necessary for promoting the overall good. Here Kagan argues that attempts to defend these sorts of moral limit are inadequate. In thus rejecting two of the most fundamental features of commonsense morality, the book ...(展开全部)

At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world? How can we state success conditions for knowledge claims without somehow transcending our discursive and fallible nature as knowers? By distinguishing different forms of scepticism, Markus Gabriel shows how all objective knowledge ...(展开全部)

Caspar Hare presents a novel approach to questions of what we ought to do, and why we ought to do it. The traditional way to approach this subject is to begin by supposing a foundational principle, and then work out its implications. Consequentialists say that we ought to make the world impersonally better, for instance, while Kantian deontologists say that we ought to act on u...(展开全部)