The Roots of Normativity concerns one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. Over many decades, Joseph Raz has sought to develop an answer to this question, according to which understanding normativity is understanding the roles and structures of normative reasons which, when they are reasons for action, are based on values. Th...(展开全部)

The Roots of Normativity concerns one of the most basic philosophical questions: how to explain normativity in its many guises. Over many decades, Joseph Raz has sought to develop an answer to this question, according to which understanding normativity is understanding the roles and structures of normative reasons which, when they are reasons for action, are based on values. Th...(展开全部)

In the philosophy of law there has been a proliferation of advanced work in the last thirty years on the normativity of law. Recent theories explore law's character as a special kind of convention, shared cooperative activity, and social artifact, among other perspectives, to explain the precise way in which law provides subjects with reasons for action. Yet, for all their soph...(展开全部)

Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does their authority over us - or ours over one another - come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral phil...(展开全部)

"Our only channel of information about the world is the impact of external forces on our sensory surfaces. So says science itself. There is no clairvoyance. How, then, can we have parlayed this meager sensory input into a full-blown scientific theory of the world? This is itself a scientific question. The pursuit of it, with free use of scientific theory, is what I call natural...(展开全部)

What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk describes the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets, Kirk examines in dramatic fashion the sources of American order. His analytical narrative might be called "a tale of five cities": Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. For ...(展开全部)

阿德里安·雷恩（Adrian Raine），神经犯罪学创始人，暴力生物学领袖，理查德·佩里大学犯罪学和精神病学教授，宾夕法尼亚大学心理学教授。过去35年来，雷恩一直致力于反社会和暴力行为的神经生物学与生物社会根源的研究，他运用平生所学，探索预防和治疗儿童品行障碍及成年人反社会与暴力犯罪的方法。

阿德里安·雷恩（Adrian Raine），神经犯罪学创始人，暴力生物学领袖，理查德·佩里大学犯罪学和精神病学教授，宾夕法尼亚大学心理学教授。过去35年来，雷恩一直致力于反社会和暴力行为的神经生物学与生物社会根源的研究，他运用平生所学，探索预防和治疗儿童品行障碍及成年人反社会与暴力犯罪的方法。

With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughout Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing neurocriminology, a new field that applies neuroscience techniques to investigate t...(展开全部)