What can reason (or more broadly, thinking) do for us and what can't it do? This is the question examined by Herbert A. Simon, who received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering work on decision-making processes in economic organizations." The ability to apply reason to the choice of actions is supposed to be one of the defining characteristics of our sp...(展开全部)

What can reason (or more broadly, thinking) do for us and what can't it do? This is the question examined by Herbert A. Simon, who received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering work on decision-making processes in economic organizations." The ability to apply reason to the choice of actions is supposed to be one of the defining characteristics of our sp...(展开全部)

作者簡介 J. L. Schellenberg 當代最著名的宗教哲學家之一。英國牛津大學哲學博士，現為加拿大聖文森山大學哲學教授（Mount Saint Vincent University）、戴爾豪斯大學（Dalhousie University）兼任教授。著有《神的隱匿與人的理性》、《演化的宗教》、《懷疑的智慧》等9本重要宗教哲學專著，其中《神的隱匿與人的理性》一書提出了「上帝隱匿論證」，被譽為當代宗教哲學最重要的幾本經典著作之一，並成為近年多本國際學術文集、期刊專刊的討論專題。 譯者簡介 陳樂知 臺灣大學哲學系副教授、澳洲雪梨大學哲學博士。現為臺大傳統與科學形上學研究中心（TSM）執行長；臺灣邏輯、方法論、科學與科技哲學學會（LMPST Taiwan）祕書長。專長為心智哲學、形上學、宗教哲學與自然主義哲學，曾於國際頂尖哲學期刊如Oxf...(展开全部)

作者簡介 J. L. Schellenberg 當代最著名的宗教哲學家之一。英國牛津大學哲學博士，現為加拿大聖文森山大學哲學教授（Mount Saint Vincent University）、戴爾豪斯大學（Dalhousie University）兼任教授。著有《神的隱匿與人的理性》、《演化的宗教》、《懷疑的智慧》等9本重要宗教哲學專著，其中《神的隱匿與人的理性》一書提出了「上帝隱匿論證」，被譽為當代宗教哲學最重要的幾本經典著作之一，並成為近年多本國際學術文集、期刊專刊的討論專題。 譯者簡介 陳樂知 臺灣大學哲學系副教授、澳洲雪梨大學哲學博士。現為臺大傳統與科學形上學研究中心（TSM）執行長；臺灣邏輯、方法論、科學與科技哲學學會（LMPST Taiwan）祕書長。專長為心智哲學、形上學、宗教哲學與自然主義哲學，曾於國際頂尖哲學期刊如Oxf...(展开全部)

Reason in Action collects John Finnis's work on the theory of practical reason and moral philosophy. The essays in the volume range from foundational issues of meta-ethics to the practical application of natural law theory to ethical problems such as nuclear deterrence, obscenity and free speech, and abortion and cloning. Defending the objectivity of some evaluative and moral ...(展开全部)

Unlike most texts in critical thinking, Reason in the Balance focuses broadly on the practice of critical inquiry, the process of carefully examining an issue in order to come to a reasoned judgment. Although analysis and critique of individual arguments have an important role to play, this text goes beyond that dimension to emphasize the various aspects that go into the practi...(展开全部)

Unlike most texts in critical thinking, Reason in the Balance focuses broadly on the practice of critical inquiry, the process of carefully examining an issue in order to come to a reasoned judgment. Although analysis and critique of individual arguments have an important role to play, this text goes beyond that dimension to emphasize the various aspects that go into the practi...(展开全部)

Transcendentalism never came to an end in America. It just went underground for a stretch, but is back in full force in Robert Brandom’s new book. Brandom takes up Kant and Hegel and explores their contemporary significance as if little time had expired since intellectuals gathered around Emerson in Concord to discuss reason and idealism, selves, freedom, and community. Brandom...(展开全部)

Transcendentalism never came to an end in America. It just went underground for a stretch, but is back in full force in Robert Brandom's new book. An emphasis on our capacity to reason, rather than merely to represent, has been growing in philosophy over the last thirty years, and Robert Brandom has been at the center of this development. This is a paradigmatic work of contempo...(展开全部)

Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude began to change with the publication of Descartes’ Error in 1995. Antonio Damasio—"...(展开全部)