Gerald Gaus was one of the leading liberal theorists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He developed a pioneering defence of the liberal order based on its unique capacity to handle diversity and disagreement, and he presses the liberal tradition towards a principled openness to pluralism and diversity. This book brings together Gaus's most seminal and crea...(展开全部)

公共理性是当代西方政治哲学中的核心理念之一。《公共理性》所收录的文章，在分别展示霍布斯式、康德式和罗尔斯式的公共理性理念的基础上，着重探讨了该理念在当代政治哲学中与民主的公民身份和政治辩护之间的内在关联，从而揭示了该理念的基本抱负：公民通过恰当的公共推理寻求共享的公共理性，以期在现代多元社会获得政治共识，并解决政治合法性乃至社会正义的原则问题。但共享的公共理性是否必要或可能，公共理性是否能达到政治中立并排除认识论上的真理诉隶，公共理性的约束是否限制了政治商谈的活力，则是批评者们提出问题的地方。

公共理性是当代西方政治哲学中的核心理念之一。《公共理性》所收录的文章，在分别展示霍布斯式、康德式和罗尔斯式的公共理性理念的基础上，着重探讨了该理念在当代政治哲学中与民主的公民身份和政治辩护之间的内在关联，从而揭示了该理念的基本抱负：公民通过恰当的公共推理寻求共享的公共理性，以期在现代多元社会获得政治共识，并解决政治合法性乃至社会正义的原则问题。但共享的公共理性是否必要或可能，公共理性是否能达到政治中立并排除认识论上的真理诉隶，公共理性的约束是否限制了政治商谈的活力，则是批评者们提出问题的地方。

A radical and original critique of modern liberal theory that examines the assumptions about the nature of the individual as a bearer of rights in liberal theory.

A radical and original critique of modern liberal theory that examines the assumptions about the nature of the individual as a bearer of rights in liberal theory.

This unique volume presents a new approach ??? the general theory of information ??? to scientific understanding of information phenomena. Based on a thorough analysis of information processes in nature, technology, and society, as well as on the main directions in information theory, this theory synthesizes existing directions into a unified system. The book explains how this ...(展开全部)

This unique volume presents a new approach ??? the general theory of information ??? to scientific understanding of information phenomena. Based on a thorough analysis of information processes in nature, technology, and society, as well as on the main directions in information theory, this theory synthesizes existing directions into a unified system. The book explains how this ...(展开全部)

"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins. In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity today is beyond the scope of anything we have known before. ...(展开全部)

Harvard Professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson takes readers through time--tracing the processes that create new species, the five cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution over the past 600 million years, and how humans are destroying diversity at a projected rate of 20 percent over the next 30 years. "In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence somet...(展开全部)

Harvard Professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson takes readers through time--tracing the processes that create new species, the five cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution over the past 600 million years, and how humans are destroying diversity at a projected rate of 20 percent over the next 30 years. "In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence somet...(展开全部)