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)

This major work from Quentin Skinner presents a fundamental reappraisal of the political theory of Hobbes. Using, for the first time, the full range of manuscript as well as printed sources, it documents an entirely new view of Hobbes' intellectual development, and reexamines the shift from a humanist to a scientific culture in European moral and political thought. By examining...(展开全部)

This major work from Quentin Skinner presents a fundamental reappraisal of the political theory of Hobbes. Using, for the first time, the full range of manuscript as well as printed sources, it documents an entirely new view of Hobbes' intellectual development, and reexamines the shift from a humanist to a scientific culture in European moral and political thought. By examining...(展开全部)

Leading philosophers and psychologists join forces to investigate a set of problems to do with agency and self-awareness, in seventeen specially written essays. In recent years there has been much psychological and neurological work purporting to show that consciousness and self-awareness play no role in causing actions, and indeed to demonstrate that free will is an illusion. ...(展开全部)

Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature offers an engaging philosophical overview of Tibetan Buddhist thought. Integrating competing and complementary perspectives on the nature of mind and reality, Douglas Duckworth reveals the way that Buddhist theory informs Buddhist practice in various Tibetan traditions. Duckworth draws upon a contrast between phenomenology and onto...(展开全部)

埃文·汤普森（Evan Thompson），不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华大学哲学教授，加拿大皇家学会院士。他著有《生命中的心智：生物学、现象学和心智科学》（Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind）和《色彩视角：认知科学与认知的哲学研究》（Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Perception） 他与人合著有《身心合一：认知科学与人类经验》（The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience），与人合编有《自我，没有自我：从分析学、现象学与印度传统角度出发》（Self, No Self? Perspectives ...(展开全部)

本书作者埃文·汤普森是一位著名的心智哲学家，因其关于佛教和认知科学的开创性作品闻名于世。在这部最新作品中，他将神经科学对睡眠、做梦、冥想的最新研究成果与印度、西方哲学思想相结合，以全新视角审视了自我与大脑的关系。 汤普森向读者展示了，自我是一个不断变化的过程，而不是一个静止不变的东西。清醒的时候，我们对当下的身体有一定的认同，但如果思绪纷乱或陷入遐想，我们的自我想象就会变成对过去的回忆或对未来的预期。当我们睡着的时候，被外界束缚的印象消失了，但自我会在梦的状态下重新出现。 如果我们处于清醒的梦境中，我们就会不再仅仅认同梦中的自我。这个时候，我们的“自我感觉”包括做梦的自我，也就是作为梦想家的“我”。最后，当我们冥想的时候，无论是在清醒状态或是清醒的梦境中，我们都可以观察到出现的任何图像或想法，以及我们是如何将它们认定为“我”的。我们还可以体验纯粹的意...(展开全部)