In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers-The Pittsburgh School-whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of conceptual capacities is to place it in a space of norms. Wilfrid Sellars claimed ...(展开全部)

The American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading twentieth-century critics of empiricism—a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Sellars stood in the forefront of a recoil within analytic philosophy from the foundationalist assumptions of contemporary empiricists. From Empiricism to Expressivism is a far-reach...(展开全部)

The American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading twentieth-century critics of empiricism—a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Sellars stood in the forefront of a recoil within analytic philosophy from the foundationalist assumptions of contemporary empiricists. From Empiricism to Expressivism is a far-reach...(展开全部)

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy. * Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson* Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy* Explains ...(展开全部)

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy. * Based on public lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson* Rejects the ideology of the 'linguistic turn', the most distinctive trend of 20th century philosophy* Explains ...(展开全部)

This book grew out of a sense that contemporary philosophy lacks a self-image that does it justice. Of the self-images that philosophy inherited from the twentieth century, the most prominent – natural-ism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and so on – seemed obviously inadequate to most of the most interesting work in contemporary philosophy: as descriptions, false when b...(展开全部)

This book grew out of a sense that contemporary philosophy lacks a self-image that does it justice. Of the self-images that philosophy inherited from the twentieth century, the most prominent – natural-ism, the linguistic turn, postmodern irony, and so on – seemed obviously inadequate to most of the most interesting work in contemporary philosophy: as descriptions, false when b...(展开全部)

安德鲁·芬伯格（Andrew Feenberg，1943~）致力于技术批判理论的研究，著作颇多，也提出了很多有建树的思想，芬伯格的著作有《卢卡奇、马克思和批判理论的来源》，还有技术批判三部曲《技术批判理论》(1991)，《可选择的现代性———哲学和社会科学中的技术转向》( 1995)和《质问技术》( 1999)。《实践哲学》是芬伯格2014年的新作。这些著作为安德鲁·芬伯格赢得了很多声誉，也使他成为技术批判理论第二代的重要代表。其中，《可选择的现代性——哲学和社会科学中的技术转向》《技术批判理论》的中文译本，已于2003年由中国社会科学出版社正式出版发行，并在我国学术界产生了很大的影响。

This book teaches functional programming through creative applications in music and sound synthesis. Readers will learn the Haskell programming language and explore numerous ways to create music and design virtual instruments with concise, elegant code.

近百年来，年鉴学派引起了争议：它的拥趸们革新了历史研究，扩展了经济、社会和文明史学术研究允许的主题数量，推翻了19世纪历史学家的做法，显然支持一种原创的、跨学科的方法。 年鉴学派的反对者坚称这是年鉴历史学家流传的故事的一部分。从反对者的角度审视年鉴，一个完全不同的画面浮现出来，其中一系列跨越边界的学者的攻击和妥协使得年代学派关于研究过去的建议受到了偏转。由于文化、教育、意识形态和宗教承诺以及现代政治文化在年鉴和他们的反对者之间的辩论中的相互联系，该分析采用广角镜头，以提出人类历史研究的新视野。