拉尔夫•巴尔顿•培里（1896-1957） 美国哲学家，美国实用主义者威廉•詹姆士的学生，新实在论的创始人之一。1876年 7月3日生于佛蒙特州的波尔特尼，1896年获普林斯顿大学文学士学位，1897年和1899年先后获哈佛大学硕士和哲学博士学位。他曾短期在威廉斯和史密斯两学院任教，1902～1946年在哈佛大学任讲师、教授，1946～1948年任格拉斯哥大学吉福德讲座讲师。1920年曾被选为美国哲学学会东部分会主席。培里的著作甚多,涉及哲学、科学、艺术、宗教等各个领域，主要的有：《自我中心的困境》(1910)、《实在论的独立性理论》（1912）、《现代哲学倾向》(1912)、《一般价值论》(1926)、《威廉•詹姆士的思想和性格》（2卷，1935）、《价值的领域》(1954)等。

拉尔夫•巴尔顿•培里（1896-1957） 美国哲学家，美国实用主义者威廉•詹姆士的学生，新实在论的创始人之一。1876年 7月3日生于佛蒙特州的波尔特尼，1896年获普林斯顿大学文学士学位，1897年和1899年先后获哈佛大学硕士和哲学博士学位。他曾短期在威廉斯和史密斯两学院任教，1902～1946年在哈佛大学任讲师、教授，1946～1948年任格拉斯哥大学吉福德讲座讲师。1920年曾被选为美国哲学学会东部分会主席。培里的著作甚多,涉及哲学、科学、艺术、宗教等各个领域，主要的有：《自我中心的困境》(1910)、《实在论的独立性理论》（1912）、《现代哲学倾向》(1912)、《一般价值论》(1926)、《威廉•詹姆士的思想和性格》（2卷，1935）、《价值的领域》(1954)等。

A study of American pragmatism, this book looks at all the different stages from the Emersonian roots, through the dilemma of the mid-century pragmatic intellectual up to the decline and resurgence of American pragmatism. It also discusses prophetic pragmatism.

Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West's basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey is the central figure in West's pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied mid-century representatives of the tradition as Sidney Hook, C. Wright Mills, W. E. B. Du B...(展开全部)

This series of interviews, conducted in the form of exchanges between Roy Bhaskar, the originator of critical realism (and the later philosophy of meta-reality) and Mervyn Hartwig, a leading commentator on critical realism (and the editor of and principal contributor to the recently published "Dictionary of Critical Realism"), tells a riveting story of the formation and develop...(展开全部)

The last two hundred years have seen a massive increase in the size of the world economy and equally massive inequalities of wealth and power between different parts of the world. They have also witnessed the rise to dominance of the capitalist mode of production. Marxists, from Marx himself through to present day thinkers, have argued that these changes are profoundly intercon...(展开全部)

This text is one of the cornerstones of the critical realist position, which is now widely seen as offering a viable alternative to move positivism and post modernism. This revised edition includes a new foreword. "A Realist Theory of Science" (originally 1975, reprinted Verso, 1996).

This text is one of the cornerstones of the critical realist position, which is now widely seen as offering a viable alternative to move positivism and post modernism. This revised edition includes a new foreword. "A Realist Theory of Science" (originally 1975, reprinted Verso, 1996).