In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in "We Have Never Been Modern, "a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what "have" we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the past twenty-five years, Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his nam...(展开全部)

In this new book, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern, a work that interrogated the connections between nature and culture. If not modern, he asked, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? Over the last twenty-five years, Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is...(展开全部)

How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existentia...(展开全部)

National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples w...(展开全部)

Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today—as online videos, images, text files, e-mails, blog posts, Facebook events.Yet, despite their ubiquity, the nature of digital objects remains unclear. On the Existence of Digital Objects conducts a philosophical examination of digital obj...(展开全部)

There is more to metaphysics than was taken up in the first edition. In the past century, many philosophers have thought hard about what (if anything) ethical evaluations are really about, and in the past few decades, many philosophers have been thinking hard about what (if anything) metaphysical research accomplishes. This second edition includes two new chapters, ‘The Metaphy...(展开全部)

Few thinkers have been as influential upon current discussions and theoretical practices in the age of media archaeology, philosophy of technology, and digital humanities as the French thinker Gilbert Simondon. Simondon’s prolific intellectual curiosity led his philosophical and scientific reflections to traverse a variety of areas of research, including philosophy, psychology,...(展开全部)

◎作者简介 伊恩·斯图尔特是英国沃里克大学数学教授，英国皇家学会院士，国际知名数学科普作家。1995年斯图尔特教授荣获法拉第奖章，2002年获得美国科学促进会公众理解科学技术奖，2008年因其向公众推广数学知识的杰出贡献而成为塞曼奖章的首位获得者。他的著作超过80种，包括《自然之数》《给年青数学人的信》和翻译成13种语言的《上帝掷骰子吗？》。他是《新科学家》杂志的数学顾问、《不列颠百科全书》的顾问，曾担任《科学美国人》杂志的“数学游戏”专栏撰稿人。 ◎译者简介 杨昔阳，泉州师范学院数学与计算机科学学院教授，主要研究方向为应用数学与数学教育，发表过多篇学术论文，代表译作有《爱+恨数学：还原最真实的数学》。