Beyond Aesthetics brings together philosophical essays addressing art and related issues by one of the foremost philosophers of art at work today. Countering conventional aesthetic theories - those maintaining that authorial intention, art history, morality and emotional responses are irrelevant to the experience of art - Noel Carroll argues for a more pluralistic and commonsen...(展开全部)

Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with the challenge of scientific natu...(展开全部)

哈里•G. 法兰克福（Harry G. Frankfurt）是最近三十多年来英语世界最有影响的哲学家之一，普林斯顿大学哲学系退休教授。他的主要研究领域包括道德哲学、心智与行动哲学以及17世纪理性主义特别是笛卡尔哲学。凭借On Bullshit（《论扯淡》，中译本，2008），法兰克福成为亚马逊十大畅销作家之一。其著作还包括On Truth(2006), Taking Ourselves Seriously and Getting It Right(2006), The Reasons of Love(2004), Necessity, Volition, and Love(1999), The Importance of What We Care about(1988, 2005), Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen, The...(展开全部)

This volume is a collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics, free will, and the philosophy of mind. The essays deal with such central topics as freedom of the will, moral responsibility, the concept of a person, the structure of the will, the nature of action, the constitution of the self, and the theory of personal ideals. By focusing on the distinctive nature of human fr...(展开全部)

This volume contains a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, of two works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. Through Climacus, Kierkegaard contrasts the paradoxes of Christianity with Greek and modern philosophical thinking. In Philosophical Fragments he begins with Greek Platonic philosophy, exploring the implications of venturing beyo...(展开全部)

This volume contains a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, of two works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. Through Climacus, Kierkegaard contrasts the paradoxes of Christianity with Greek and modern philosophical thinking. In Philosophical Fragments he begins with Greek Platonic philosophy, exploring the implications of venturing beyo...(展开全部)

乔治•摩尔(George Moore，1873－1958)，英国哲学家，分析哲学的两位创始人之一（另一位是罗素）。1892年起就读于剑桥大学三一学院，1898年至1904年为该院研究员，1911年起在该院任教，1939年退休。1921年至1947年任《精神》(Mind) 杂志主编。主要著作有：《伦理学原理》（1903）、《哲学研究》（1922）、《哲学的几个主要问题》（1953）和《哲学论文集》（遗著，1959）。

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as...(展开全部)