Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road. In this book, Andrei Marmor offers a pathbreaking and comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in soci...(展开全部)

苏珊•菲斯克(Susan T. Fiske) 1978年获哈佛大学社会心理学博士学位，现为美国普林斯顿大学“尤金•希金斯”心理学教授、心理学与公共事务教授，美国国家科学院、美国艺术与科学院院士。曾当选心理科学协会（APS）主席、人格与社会心理学会（SPSP）主席、行为与脑科学联合会主席。现为《心理学年鉴》（Annual Review of Psychology）的主编以及国际顶级期刊《美国国家科学院院刊》（PNAS）的编委。 荣获美国心理学协会（APA）的心理学杰出科学贡献奖、美国心理科学协会的威廉•詹姆士奖、社会与人格心理学会的唐纳德•坎贝尔奖以及古根海姆学者奖等众多重量级奖项。 谢利•泰勒(Shelley E. Taylor) 1972年获耶鲁大学社会心理学博士学位，曾先后在耶鲁大学和哈佛大学任教，现为美国加州大学洛杉矶分校心理学杰出教授，美国国...(展开全部)

A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization. Language is not only one of the most complex cognitive functions that we command, it is also the aspect of the mind that makes us uniquely human. Research suggests that the human brain exhibits a language readiness not found in the brains of other species. This volume brings together contributions fr...(展开全部)

It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language: how we understand, produce, and store language. This new edition contains new chapters on how children learn to read, and how language is used in everyday settings. It also describes recent research on the impact of new techniques of brain imaging. The text is comprehensive and written in a livel...(展开全部)

Law, Language, and Legal Determinancy discusses the role of language within law, and the role of philosophy of language in understanding the nature of law. The book argues that the major re-thinking of the common and 'common sense' views about law that have been proposed by various recent legal theorists are unnecessary.

Modern systems theory provides a new paradigm for the analysis of society. In this volume, Niklas Luhmann, its leading exponent, explores its implications for our understanding of law. Luhmann argues that current thinking about how law operates within a modern society is seriously deficient. In this volume he lays out the theoretical and methodological tools that, he argues, ...(展开全部)

A distinguished professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago, a prolific writer and award-winning thinker, Martha Nussbaum stands as one of our foremost authorities on law, justice, freedom, morality, and emotion. In From Disgust to Humanity, Nussbaum aims her considerable intellectual firepower at the bulwark of opposition to gay equality: the politics of disgu...(展开全部)

安德烈·布林克（André Brink, 1935-2015）是著名的南非小说家、翻译家、文学理论家、种族隔离制度坚定的反对者、南非开普敦大学英语文学教授、美国普林斯顿大学客座教授。 创作的小说作品有：《风中一瞬》《干燥的白季节》《余音袅袅》《南辕北辙》《沙漠随想》等，这些作品已被翻译成三十多种文字。