The nature of perception has long been a central question in philosophy. It is of crucial importance not just in the philosophy of mind, but also in epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science. The essays in this 1992 volume not only offer fresh answers to some of the traditional problems of perception, but also examine the subject in light of contempor...(展开全部)

What do we see? We are visually conscious of colors and shapes, but are we also visually conscious of complex properties such as being John Malkovich? In this book, Susanna Siegel develops a framework for understanding the contents of visual experience, and argues that these contents involve all sorts of complex properties. Siegel starts by analyzing the notion of the contents ...(展开全部)

In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus a...(展开全部)

This collection of essays by one of the preeminent Kant scholars of our time transforms our understanding of both Kant's aesthetics and his ethics. Guyer shows that at the very core of Kant's aesthetic theory, disinterestedness of taste becomes an experience of freedom and thus an essential accompaniment to morality itself. At the same time he reveals how Kant's moral theory in...(展开全部)

Two most important essays by the famous German mathematician: one provides an arithmetic, rigorous foundation for the irrational numbers, thereby a rigorous meaning of continuity in analysis. The other is an attempt to give logical basis for transfinite numbers and properties of the natural numbers.

The Primacy of Perception brings together a number of important studies by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that appeared in various publications from 1947 to 1961. The title essay, which is in essence a presentation of the underlying thesis of his Phenomenology of Perception, is followed by two courses given by Merleau-Ponty at the Sorbonne on phenomenological psychology. "Eye and Mind" ...(展开全部)

An important division in the human mind is between perception and reasoning. Perceptual experiences are conscious, but much of our reasoning is unconscious. Reasoning can be better or worse, but perception is considered beyond reproach. We reason from information that we have already, but perception is a means of getting new information. The Rationality of Perception argues tha...(展开全部)

'In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unfortunate optimism of science – and also the insidious stickiness of honey, and the mystery of anger.' - James Elkins Maurice Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important thinkers of the post-war era. Central to his thought was th...(展开全部)

安·拉布里奥拉（1843——1904）是意大利第一个马克思主义哲学家，杰出的理论家和社会主义活动家。

室利•阿罗频多(1872－1950)，印度 “三圣”（圣雄甘地、圣诗泰戈尔、圣哲阿罗频多）之一，居印度近代以来最著名的精神哲学家之列。民族主义者，自由斗士，诗人，哲学家，瑜伽修行者。 　　7岁就去英国求学，毕业于剑桥大学。21岁时回国，开始研究本土文化，渐渐参加独立运动。到34岁已为名教授而被推为大学校长；到36岁已为秘密结社之魁首，主持暴动暗杀等事。同年其秘密结社败露被捕，入狱一年，诉讼获释。获释后仍继续其爱国运动，但得讯又将被逮捕，于是间关抵达南印度之一海滨埠头，名“捧地舍里”（pondicherry），当时是法国属地，为英国势力所不及，时正38岁（1910）。从此隐居著述，凡四十年，以至去世，从未离该地。阿罗频多一生著述有一百多种，其代表性的著作有《神圣人生论》、《薄伽梵歌论》、《综合瑜伽论》等。 　　在中国，其思想的研究者和传播者为徐梵澄（1...(展开全部)