This comprehensive text with readings offers a historical overview of all major subdivisions of Western Philosophy perspectives. Written in an engaging and captivating style, it makes philosophy accessible without oversimplifying the material, and shows that philosophy's powerful ideas affect the lives of real people. The sixth edition includes new pedagogical tools and expande...(展开全部)

布鲁克·诺埃尔·穆尔（Brooke Noel Moore），美国加利福尼亚大学奇科分校教授，曾担任哲学与历史系系主任，1996年获得大学杰出教授称号，撰有《思想的力量》《批判性思维》《宇宙、上帝和哲学》《道德哲学导论》等哲学著作。 肯尼思·布鲁德（Kenneth Bruder），美国大学教授，在哲学教学和教材撰写方面享有声誉。

The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this further additi...(展开全部)

以赛亚·伯林爵士（Sir Isaiah Berlin，1909—1997） 英国哲学家、观念史学家、20世纪著名自由主义知识分子。生于俄国犹太家庭，童年目睹俄国革命，1921年随父母前往英国。1928年进入牛津大学攻读哲学，1939年借撰写《卡尔·马克思》的契机转向观念史研究。1957年就职牛津大学社会与政治理论教授，发表具有开创性的“两种自由概念”演说，同年获封爵士。参与创办牛津大学沃尔夫森学院并出任首任院长。作为杰出的观念史学家和学科主要奠基人，先后被授予耶路撒冷文学奖和伊拉斯谟奖。

The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this further additi...(展开全部)

Where do the best ideas come from? And how do we apply these ideas to the problems we face - at work, in the education of our children, and in the biggest shared challenges of our age: rising obesity, terrorism and climate change? In this bold and inspiring new audiobook, Matthew Syed argues that individual intelligence is no longer enough; that the only way to tackle these com...(展开全部)

This book grew out of a sense that contemporary philosophy lacks a self-image that does it justice. Of the self-images that philosophy inherited from the twentieth century, the most prominent – natural-ism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and so on – seemed obviously inadequate to most of the most interesting work in contemporary philosophy: as descriptions, false when b...(展开全部)

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy. * Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson* Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy* Explains ...(展开全部)

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy. * Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson* Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy* Explains ...(展开全部)

This book grew out of a sense that contemporary philosophy lacks a self-image that does it justice. Of the self-images that philosophy inherited from the twentieth century, the most prominent – natural-ism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and so on – seemed obviously inadequate to most of the most interesting work in contemporary philosophy: as descriptions, false when b...(展开全部)