In 1784, the German newspaper Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its audience to reply to the question "What is Enlightenment?" Immanuel Kant took the opportunity to investigate the purported truths and assumptions of his age. Two hundred years later, Michel Foucault wrote a response to Kant's initial essay,positioning Kant as the initiator of the discourse and critique of moderni...(展开全部)

In 1784, the German newspaper Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its audience to reply to the question "What is Enlightenment?" Immanuel Kant took the opportunity to investigate the purported truths and assumptions of his age. Two hundred years later, Michel Foucault wrote a response to Kant's initial essay, positioning Kant as the initiator of the discourse and critique of modern...(展开全部)

When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a theory as proliferative, ecstatic, and hallucinatory as the postmodern world it endeavored to describe. Arguing against the predetermined outcomes of dialectical thought with his renowned...(展开全部)

When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a theory as proliferative, ecstatic, and hallucinatory as the postmodern world it endeavored to describe. Arguing against the predetermined outcomes of dialectical thought with his renowned...(展开全部)

A new field of counterinvestigation in journalism, human rights, art and law Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, human rights violations, environmental crimes and technological domination. At the same time, areas not usually thought of as artistic make powerful use of aesthetics. Journalists and legal professionals pore over opensource videos and...(展开全部)

Theories of Truth provides a clear, critical introduction to one of the most difficult areas of philosophy. It surveys all of the major philosophical theories of truth, presenting the crux of the issues involved at a level accessible to nonexperts yet in a manner sufficiently detailed and original to be of value to professional scholars. Kirkham's systematic treatment and metic...(展开全部)

Theories of Truth provides a clear, critical introduction to one of the most difficult areas of philosophy. It surveys all of the major philosophical theories of truth, presenting the crux of the issues involved at a level accessible to nonexperts yet in a manner sufficiently detailed and original to be of value to professional scholars. Kirkham's systematic treatment and metic...(展开全部)

奎因 （W.V.O.Quine.1908－ 美国当代著名哲学家。 1933－1978年在哈佛大学工作， 历任讲师、教授、高级研究员 和讲座教授。主要著作有：《从 逻辑的观点看》（1953），《语词 和对象》（1960），《逻辑哲学》 （1970），等等。

迈克尔·康奈利是深受比尔·克林顿、米克·贾格尔等人喜爱的悬疑小说家，他被《GQ》称为“世界上最好的悬疑小说家”。他的小说迄今销售了7400多万册，被翻译成40种文字，并且几乎每一部都能登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜的榜首。迈克尔·康奈利从事小说创作之前，在《洛杉矶时报》担任犯 罪新闻记者，丰富的经历为他的写作提供了坚实的基础。1992年，他创作了以洛杉矶警探哈里·博斯为主角的小说《黑色回声》，获得1993年爱伦·坡奖的最佳处女作奖。目前，“哈里·博斯系列”小说已出版了20部。

威廉•詹姆斯（William James，1842—1910），美国心理学家和哲学家，美国机能主义心理学和实用主义哲学的先驱，美国心理学会的创始人之一。1875年，建立美国第一个心理学实验室。1904年当选为美国心理学会主席，1906年当选为国家科学院院士。主要著有《心理学原理》（1890）、《对教师讲心理学和对学生讲生活理想》（1899）、《实用主义》(1907)、《多元的宇宙》（1909）。