Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical problems, and the same problems will look different when we change the lens. In this book, Theodore Sider identifies how the shift from modal to "postmodal" conceptual tools in recent years has affected the metaphysics of scie...(展开全部)

索尔·贝娄（Saul Bellow，1915－2005），美国作家。生于加拿大魁北克省的拉辛，在蒙特利尔度过童年。一九二四年，举家迁至美国芝加哥。一九三三年，考入芝加哥大学。两年后，转入西北大学，于一九三七年毕业，并获得社会学和人类学学士学位。同年，赴威斯康星大学攻读硕士学位。之后长期在大学执教。 出版于一九五三年的《奥吉·马奇历险记》使贝娄一举成名，奠定了他的文学地位。其后，他陆续出版《雨王亨德森》（1959）、《赫索格》（1964）、《赛姆勒先生的行星》（1970）、《洪堡的礼物）（1975）、《院长的十二月》（1982）等。这些作品反映了中产阶级知识分子的精神苦闷，从侧面揭示了美国当代“丰裕社会”的精神危机。此外，贝娄还出版过诸多中短篇小说集、剧本，以及游记。

索尔·贝娄（Saul Bellow，1915－2005），美国作家。生于加拿大魁北克省的拉辛，在蒙特利尔度过童年。一九二四年，举家迁至美国芝加哥。一九三三年，考入芝加哥大学。两年后，转入西北大学，于一九三七年毕业，并获得社会学和人类学学士学位。同年，赴威斯康星大学攻读硕士学位。之后长期在大学执教。 出版于一九五三年的《奥吉·马奇历险记》使贝娄一举成名，奠定了他的文学地位。其后，他陆续出版《雨王亨德森》（1959）、《赫索格》（1964）、《赛姆勒先生的行星》（1970）、《洪堡的礼物）（1975）、《院长的十二月》（1982）等。这些作品反映了中产阶级知识分子的精神苦闷，从侧面揭示了美国当代“丰裕社会”的精神危机。此外，贝娄还出版过诸多中短篇小说集、剧本，以及游记。

Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar. This study focuses on the use and meaning of grammatical markers of tense, aspect and modality and identifies a universal set of grammatical categories. The authors demonstrate that th...(展开全部)

Throughout the history of ideas, various branches of philosophy have spun off into the natural sciences, including physics, biology, and perhaps most recently, cognitive psychology. A central theme of this collection is that the philosophy of language, at least a core portion of it, has matured to the point where it is now being spun off into linguistic theory. Each section of ...(展开全部)

Even the most enthusiastic of maths students probably at one time wondered when exactly it would all prove useful in ‘real life’. Well, maths reaches so far and wide through our world that, love it or hate it, we’re all doing maths almost every minute of every day. David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee go in search of the perfect labyrinth, journey back to the second century in pur...(展开全部)

This authoritative introduction to the study of human beings and their cultural institutions in cities offers twenty-six readings more than one-half new or revised for the Fourth Edition that form a rich blend of classic studies of enduring interest and important new research. Impressive in scope, the latest edition offers an entirely new section on globalization and transnatio...(展开全部)

This is a book about Kant's views on causality as understood in their proper historical context. Specifically, Eric Watkins argues that a grasp of Leibnizian and anti-Leibnizian thought in eighteenth-century Germany helps one to see how the critical Kant argued for causal principles that have both metaphysical and epistemological elements. On this reading Kant's model of causal...(展开全部)