克里普克，美国逻辑学家，哲学家。曾任教于哈佛、哥伦比亚、康奈尔和洛克菲勒等大学，1977年任普林斯顿大学哲学教授，后升任麦科什讲座哲学教授。他是模态逻辑语义学的创始人和因果-历史指称论的首倡者之一，认为名词的指称主要取决于与使用该名词有关的社会历史的传递链条。以此出发，他进一步阐发了有关专名和通名的理论，并由此构成了现代分析哲学的一个历史转折点。著有《命名和必然性》等。

Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It co nfronts important issues left open in that work -- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in fiction and in myth; negative existential statements; the ontology of fiction and myth (whether it is true that...(展开全部)

John Locke is often thought of as one of the founders of the Enlightenment, a movement that sought to do away with the Bible and religion and replace them with scientific realism. But Locke was extremely interested in the Bible, and he was engaged by biblical theology and religion throughout his life. In this new book, K.I. Parker considers Locke’s interest in Scripture and how...(展开全部)

This volume makes available for the first time critical editions of John Locke's A Vindication and A Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, in which Locke defends his interpretation of the New Testament and of the Christian Religion against charges of heterodoxy. These works contribute greatly to our understanding of Locke's Christian commitments, which it is...(展开全部)

As Emmanuel Levinas states in the preface to Existence and Existents, “this study is a preparatory one. It examines . . . the problem of the Good, time, and the relationship with the other [person] as a movement toward the Good.” First published in 1947, and written mostly during Levinas's imprisonment during World War II, this work provides the first sketch of his mature thoug...(展开全部)

If the phrase "the philosophy of difference" defines French anti-Hegelianism, then we have to say that there would be no philosophy of difference without Logic and Existence. Derrida's notion of differance, Deleuze's logic of sense, and Foucault's reconception of history all stem from this book. This first English translation of the virtually unknown Logic and Existence is esse...(展开全部)

As Emmanuel Levinas states in the preface to Existence and Existents, “this study is a preparatory one. It examines . . . the problem of the Good, time, and the relationship with the other [person] as a movement toward the Good.” First published in 1947, and written mostly during Levinas's imprisonment during World War II, this work provides the first sketch of his mature thoug...(展开全部)

奥拉夫·阿斯海姆，挪威奥斯陆大学哲学系教授。长期致力于逻辑哲学、语言哲学研究及会通分析哲学与现象学的工作，近年从事计算机博弈哲学研究。著有《指称与意向性》、《索引词与直接指称》、《作为双命题态度的愿望》、《真理与视域》等。 张建军，南京大学哲学系教授、南京大学现代逻辑与逻辑应用研究所所长。 万林，扬州大学副教授、南京大学现代逻辑与逻辑府用研究所兼职研究员。

乔治·O·阿贝尔曾是美国洛杉矶加利福尼亚大学的天文学教授。他出生于洛杉矶地区并在那里上中学，在美国空军短期工作后进入加州理工学院，在那里得到学士、硕士位，最后在1957年获得博士学位。随后，他一直在加州大学洛杉矶分校任职，并在休假期间曾经作为慕尼黑物理和天体物理学马克斯·普朗克研究所的特遨学者和爱丁堡皇家天文台的特邀教授。他的研究对象是密集星系团、宇宙宏观结构以及和宇宙学有关的其他问题。他在国内和国际的科学组织以及天文普及方面都很活跃。他除有许多研究论文和一般文章外，还写过几部被广泛选用的天文学教科书，其中包括《宇宙的探索》。1981年10月7日，乔治·阿贝尔因病逝世。

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