In the US, one out of every 138 residents is incarcerated. The size of the prison population has quadrupled since 1980. Approximately 2.4% of Americans are either on probation and parole. The US has the highest rate of criminal punishment in the Western world. The problem with American criminal law, as the philosopher of law Douglas Husak and many others see it, is that there i...(展开全部)

Book Description This new edition of Andrew Ashworth's popular and authoritative textbook incorporates all changes in the field of criminal law since the publication of the last edition in 1999. It addresses the underlying principles and rationales of criminal law, and has a more theoretical and stimulating approach than standard textbooks. It is an accessible, readable text th...(展开全部)

【英】杰瑞米·侯德（Jeremy Horder） 1989年获得牛津大学博士学位，曾执教于牛津大学、伦敦国王学院，2013年起为伦敦政治经济学院刑法学教授。著有《激怒与责任》《犯罪免责》《杀人罪和法律改革的政治》等书，已发表学术论文五十余篇。 译者 时延安，中国人民大学法学院教授、博士生导师，教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地中国人民大学刑事法律科学研究中心主任；中国犯罪学学会副会长，中国刑法学研究会常务理事。曾在纽约大学法学院、牛津大学犯罪学中心访学。在《中国社会科学》等刊物发表论文100余篇，出版3部专著，主编、译著12部。 史蔚，中国人民大学刑法学博士研究生，德国哥廷根大学联合培养博士研究生。

Andrew Ashworth addresses the underlying principles and rationales of criminal law, providing students with a depth and maturity of analysis that confronts the major challenges in criminal law. The book incorporates all the recent developments in criminal law, including the Sexual Offences Act 2003, and addresses current controversies such as the debate over the shape of the la...(展开全部)

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.

RA: 无限的东西不能是许多个，因为许多(many-ness)是一个有限的概念。要有无限，你必须辨识或定义无限为合一(Unity)；否则这个词汇就没有任何意义。在一个无限的造物者之中只有合一的存在。你们都看过合一的简单例子，一个三棱镜(prism)展现所有颜色来自于阳光这是关于合一的简化示范。 事实上，没有对或错，也没有极性，你们舞动着穿越心身灵复合体(complex)，你们此刻以不同的变貌娱乐自己，但一切终会在某个时点达成和谐。 这些变貌在任何情况下都不是必须的，而是由你们每一位所选择，做为另一种理解包罗万有的完整合一的方式。现在不是说一个类似或有点像的东西，你是一切事物，每一个存有，每一个表情，每一个事件，每一种情境，你是合一，你是无限。你是爱/光，光/爱。你是你本是。这就是一的法则。

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)

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