The way society is organized means that we all get made into members of various types of people, such as judges, wives, or women. These 'human social kinds' may be brought into being by oppressive social arrangements, and people may suffer oppression in virtue of being made into a member of a certain human social kind; this much is obvious. In Ontology and Oppression, Katharine...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The remarkable French thinker Simone Weil is one of the leading intellectual and spiritual figures of the twentieth century. A legendary essayist, political philosopher and member of the French resistance, her literary output belied her tragically short life. Most of her work was published posthumously, to widespread acclaim. Always concerned with the nature of individ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The remarkable French thinker Simone Weil is one of the leading intellectual and spiritual figures of the twentieth century. A legendary essayist, political philosopher and member of the French resistance, her literary output belied her tragically short life. Most of her work was published posthumously, to widespread acclaim. Always concerned with the nature of individ...(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)

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)

This book is a defense of an ontology of propositions and of some logical resources for representing them. It begins with an austere formulation of a theory of propositions in a first-order extensional logic, but then uses the commitments of this theory to justify an enrichment to modal logic—the logic of necessity and possibility—as an appropriate framework for regimented lang...(展开全部)

"Analyzing Oppression" presents a new, integrated theory of social oppression, which tackles the fundamental question that no theory of oppression has satisfactorily answered: if there is no natural hierarchy among humans, why are some cases of oppression so persistent? Cudd argues that the explanation lies in the coercive co-opting of the oppressed to join in their own oppress...(展开全部)

Dans le présent recueil qui réunit les études consacrées par Simone Weil à la critique sociale et politique, les Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l'oppression sociale développent le raisonnement principal, qui commande tous les autres parce qu'il a été le souci privilégié de l'auteur, le tourment qui n'a jamais quitté Simone Weil, même, et surtout, à l'intérieur de...(展开全部)

Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide is a clear and accessible survey of ontology, focusing on the most recent trends in the discipline. Divided into parts, the first half characterizes metaontology: the discourse on the methodology of ontological inquiry, covering the main concepts, tools, and methods of the discipline, exploring the notions of being and existence, ...(展开全部)

This Element gives an introduction to the emerging discipline of natural language ontology. This is an area at the interface of semantics, metaphysics, and philosophy of language that is concerned with which kinds of objects are assumed by our best semantic theories. The Element reviews different strategies for identifying a language's ontological commitments. It observes that,...(展开全部)