L. Nandi Theunissen develops a non-Kantian account of the value of human beings. Against the Kantian tradition, in which humanity is absolutely valuable and unlike the value of anything else, Theunissen outlines a relational proposal according to which our value is continuous with the value of other valuable things. She takes the Socratic starting point that good is affecting, ...(展开全部)

To treat some human beings as less worthy of concern and respect than others is to lose sight of their humanity. But what does this moral blindness amount to? What are we missing when we fail to appreciate the value of humanity? The essays in this volume offer a wide range of competing, yet overlapping, answers to these questions. Some essays examine influential views in the hi...(展开全部)

Ralph Wedgwood gives a general account of the concept of rationality. The Value of Rationality is designed as the first instalment of a trilogy - to be followed by accounts of the requirements of rationality that apply specifically to beliefs and choices. The central claim of the book is that rationality is a normative concept. This claim is defended against some recent objecti...(展开全部)

玛丽安娜·马祖卡托（Mariana Mazzucato），经济学家，伦敦大学学院（UCL）创新与公共价值经济学教授，创新与公共目的研究所创始人兼所长。 她被美国《新共和》杂志评为“三位最重要的创新经济学家”之一；2014 年，获《新政治家》颁发的政治经济学斯佩里奖；2018年，获列昂季耶夫奖。 她也为世界各地的决策者提供有关创新和可持续增长的建议。2015年9月起，马祖卡托任英国工党七人经济顾问委员会委员，其他委员还包括明星经济学家托马斯·皮凯蒂和诺奖得主约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨。2018年起，担任经济合作与发展组织（OCDE）安赫尔·古里亚的特别顾问，2019年加入联合国发展政策委员会。

"The Tanner Lectures on Human Values", which honor the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner, are presented annually at each of nine universities in the United States and Great Britain. They were established at the University of California, Berkeley, beginning in the 2000/1 academic year. "The Berkeley Tanner Lectures" series has been establishe...(展开全部)

This book is the first major study of the theme of misanthropy, its history, arguments both for and against it, and its significance for us today. Misanthropy is not strictly a philosophy. It is an inconsistent thought, and so has often been mocked. But from Timon of Athens to Motorhead it has had a very long life, vast historical purchase and is seemingly indomitable and unign...(展开全部)

This book was first printed in 1938, having been written as a Ph.D. thesis at Harvard in 1937. Our good friend, Peter Bernstein mentioned this book several times in his excellent Capital Ideas which was published in 1992. Why the book is interesting today is that it still is important and the most authoritative work on how to value financial assets. As Peter says: "Williams com...(展开全部)

This book was first printed in 1938, having been written as a Ph.D. thesis at Harvard in 1937. Our good friend, Peter Bernstein mentioned this book several times in his excellent Capital Ideas which was published in 1992. Why the book is interesting today is that it still is important and the most authoritative work on how to value financial assets. As Peter says: "Williams com...(展开全部)

This book was first printed in 1938, having been written as a Ph.D. thesis at Harvard in 1937. Our good friend, Peter Bernstein mentioned this book several times in his excellent Capital Ideas which was published in 1992. Why the book is interesting today is that it still is important and the most authoritative work on how to value financial assets. As Peter says: "Williams com...(展开全部)