Early in the last century the successes of science led a group of French thinkers to apply the principles of science to the study of society. These thinkers purported to have discovered the supposed 'laws' of society and concluded that an elite of social scientists should assume direct control of social life. The Counter-Revolution of Science is Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek's...(展开全部)

Early in the last century the successes of science led a group of French thinkers to apply the principles of science to the study of society. These thinkers purported to have discovered the supposed 'laws' of society and concluded that an elite of social scientists should assume direct control of social life. The Counter-Revolution of Science is Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek's...(展开全部)

The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that seem to escape scientific resolution and call for, in Gadamer's view, philosophical reflection of a hermeneutic sort.In effect, Gadam...(展开全部)

-作者简介- 布鲁诺•拉图尔，法国当代著名科学哲学家、人类学家和社会学家，行动者网络理论创立者之一，科学技术论（Science and Technology Studies）学界的重要代表人物。他先后任教于巴黎高等矿业学校、巴黎政治学院。主要著作有《实验室生活：科学事实的建构过程》（1979，与伍尔加合著）、《细菌：战争与和平》（1984）、《科学在行动：怎样在社会中跟随科学家和工程师》（1987）、《我们从未现代过：对称性人类学论集》（1991）、《阿哈米斯或对技术的爱》（1992）、《潘多拉的希望：科学论中的实在》（1999）、《自然的政治：如何把科学带入民主》（1999）、《重组社会：行动者网络理论导论》（2005）、《实存模式探究：现代人的人类学》（2013）等。 -译者简介- 史晨，哲学博士，南京大学哲学系助理研究员，主要研究方向为科技哲学...(展开全部)

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new "bête noire of the science worshipers," gives us his most ph...(展开全部)

-作者简介- 布鲁诺•拉图尔，法国当代著名科学哲学家、人类学家和社会学家，行动者网络理论创立者之一，科学技术论（Science and Technology Studies）学界的重要代表人物。他先后任教于巴黎高等矿业学校、巴黎政治学院。主要著作有《实验室生活：科学事实的建构过程》（1979，与伍尔加合著）、《细菌：战争与和平》（1984）、《科学在行动：怎样在社会中跟随科学家和工程师》（1987）、《我们从未现代过：对称性人类学论集》（1991）、《阿哈米斯或对技术的爱》（1992）、《潘多拉的希望：科学论中的实在》（1999）、《自然的政治：如何把科学带入民主》（1999）、《重组社会：行动者网络理论导论》（2005）、《实存模式探究：现代人的人类学》（2013）等。 -译者简介- 史晨，哲学博士，南京大学哲学系助理研究员，主要研究方向为科技哲学...(展开全部)

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new "bête noire of the science worshipers," gives us his most ph...(展开全部)

This volume of new translations unites three shorter works by Arthur Schopenhauer that expand on themes from his book The World as Will and Representation. In On the Fourfold Root he takes the principle of sufficient reason, which states that nothing is without a reason why it is, and shows how it covers different forms of explanation or ground that previous philosophers have t...(展开全部)

"Schopenhauer's analyses of causation and related concepts . . . rival and probably surpass in their depth and brilliance the more celebrated discussions of David Hume. Where Hume grossly oversimplified these problems and left them riddled with paradoxes, Schopenhauer disentangled them and shed light on what had seemed hopelessly dark." --Richard Taylor, University of Rochester...(展开全部)

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and rearrange contemporary societies. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies provides...(展开全部)