Self-Consciousness and Objectivity undermines a foundational dogma of contemporary philosophy: that knowledge, in order to be objective, must be knowledge of something that is as it is, independent of being known to be so. Sebastian Rödl revives the thought—as ancient as philosophy but largely forgotten today—that knowledge, precisely on account of being objective, is self-know...(展开全部)

Self-Consciousness and Objectivity undermines a foundational dogma of contemporary philosophy: that knowledge, in order to be objective, must be knowledge of something that is as it is, independent of being known to be so. Sebastian Rödl revives the thought—as ancient as philosophy but largely forgotten today—that knowledge, precisely on account of being objective, is self-know...(展开全部)

Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is consciousness itself an illusion? Am I conscious now? Now considered the 'last great mystery of science', consciousness was once viewed with extreme scepticism and rejected by mainstream scientists. It is now a significant area of research, albeit a contentious one, as well as a rapidly expanding area of study ...(展开全部)

张伟(张任之)，中山大学哲学系教授、博士生导师，中山大学哲学系系主任，中山大学马克思主义哲学与中国现代化研究所所长，兼任中国现象学专业委员会理事长。主要研究方向为现象学、伦理学和欧陆哲学。出版中文著作 3部,德文、英文著作 3部,另有译著、编著多部,在《中国社会科学》《哲学研究》等刊物发表论文多篇。 谢裕伟，中山大学哲学系博士后、助理研究员，德国海德堡大学哲学博士，南京大学哲学学士、硕士。主要研究领域为德国古典哲学和德国现象学。著有德文专著1部，在《哲学研究》《世界哲学》等刊物上发表论文和译文多篇，曾获“熊伟青年学术奖”。

How and why are languages constantly changing? Historical linguistics seeks to find out by going beyond the history of individual languages to discover the general principles which underlie language change. But our evidence is severely limited. Most of the world's languages are still unwritten, and even in areas with long written traditions, such as Europe and the Near East, do...(展开全部)

John Clark is Chief Executive Officer of the University of Western Sydney, Hawskbury. He was previously Director of the Speech. Hearing and Language Centre at Macquarie University. Sydney. Colin Yallop is Associate Professor in Linguistics at Macquarie and is Director of the Universty's Dictionary Research Centre.

Incorporated in this 2003 volume are the first two books in Mukai's series on moduli theory. The notion of a moduli space is central to geometry. However, its influence is not confined there; for example, the theory of moduli spaces is a crucial ingredient in the proof of Fermat's last theorem. Researchers and graduate students working in areas ranging from Donaldson or Seiberg...(展开全部)