J.M.库切 J. M. Coetzee 1940年生于南非，当代最重要的作家之一，两次获得布克奖，2003年诺贝尔文学奖得主。作品包括《等待野蛮人》《迈克尔·K的生活和时代》《耻》《夏日》《耶稣的童年》，等等。库切现居澳大利亚。 阿拉贝拉·库尔茨 Arabella Kurtz 英国心理学家，曾在英国国家卫生局的法医心理健康部门担任要职，目前是英国莱斯特大学临床心理学高级导师。

Praise for THE GOOD STORY "Coetzee's writing is characteristically spare and penetrating....Kurtz proves both a lucid expositor and an evocative literary stylist, bringing psychoanalytic ideas and practices to life with rare precision and immediacy." —Literary Review "It is the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist's agenda that drives the absorbing discussions of this book. Kurtz'...(展开全部)

This monograph purports to provide a solution to semantical paradoxes like the Liar. The authors base this solution on J. L. Austin's idea of truth, which is fundamental to situation semantics. They compare two models of language, propositions and truth, one based on Russell and the other on Austin, as they bear on the Liar Paradox. In Russell's view, a sentence expresses a pro...(展开全部)

The analysis of the connections between truth, meaning, thought, and action poses a major philosophical challenge-one that Donald Davidson addressed by establishing a unified theory of language and mind. This volume offers a reappraisal of Davidson's intellectual legacy. Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of enduring philosop...(展开全部)

Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect. Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers) won't even acknowledge "true" and "false" as meaningful categories, and...(展开全部)

No one has ever ventured deeper into space than the astronauts of Shepherd-1. The aim of their mission: to witness the creation of the cosmos and to see who had a hand in it. The answer never reaches Earth. Shepherd-1 looks functional, but abandoned. Former crew member Benjamin sets off and sends his consciousness to the spaceship. Although an enemy throws clubs between his leg...(展开全部)

朱瑟琳·乔塞尔森，执业心理治疗师，心理学教授，密歇根大学临床心理学博士。1994年获得美国心理学会颁发的亨利A.莫里奖（HenryA.Murray Award）。她还是哈佛教育研究生院的访问学者，耶路撒冷希伯来大学富布莱特法案基金的心理学教授。她的另一本著作《发现她自己：女性认同发展之路》主要介绍了女性发展问题。乔塞尔森博士还与人合编出版过《生命叙事研究》，曾发表过很多关于青少年、女性的叙事性文章。

Have you ever felt out of place, as though you were living someone else's life? Assistant Bean Counter #1138 has only ever known a world in which numbers reign supreme, but there's a feeling he cannot shake that, deep down, he is more than an accountant. One day, he discovers a magical, mystical place that presents new and tantalizing horizons: a bookstore. For all those who ha...(展开全部)

The Right and the Good, a classic of twentieth-century philosophy by the great scholar Sir David Ross, is now presented in a new edition. Ross's book, originally published in 1930, is the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The central concern of the book is with righ...(展开全部)