This book aims to change how we think about what metaphysics can do, and why it matters. Traditionally, metaphysics has been presented as aiming to discover deep truths about the world. But this leads to a rivalry with science, mysteries about how we could gain this knowledge, and a despairing skepticism about our ability to gain knowledge in metaphysics. Rethinking Metaphysics...(展开全部)

In Rethinking Metaphysics, Amie Thomasson aims to change how we think about metaphysics: what it can do, and why it matters. Traditional metaphysics has aimed to discover deep truths about the world. But this has led to rivalries with science, epistemological mysteries, and a despairing scepticism about how we could gain knowledge in metaphysics. Thomasson argues that the probl...(展开全部)

简介：如果…这一切都没有发生就好了……但是……不可能了。这真的只是幻想吗？

Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds your knowledge of and confidence in making inferences from data. Reflecting the need for scripting in today's model-based statistics, the book pushes you to perform step-by-step calculations that are usually automated. This unique computational approach ensures that you understand enough of the details...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer nowadays. And yet, at the same time, history has never been more popular - whether in the press, on the television or at the movies. In understanding our present it seems we cannot escape the past. So if you want to explore this tantal...(展开全部)

凱斯．詹京斯 （Keith Jenkins） 英國史學家。曾任教於西蘇薩克斯高等教育暨史學方法研究院，現任齊切斯特研究所歷史高級講師，及研究所教育資格檢定（PGCE）史學方法導師。致力於後現代主義史學觀念的探討及歷史教育的發展。 著有《後現代歷史學－從卡耳和艾爾頓到羅逖與懷特》（ON「WHAT IS HISTORY」：From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White）等書。

A groundbreaking vision of anthropology as the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” Bold, unexpected, and pro...(展开全部)