In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. These pieces, collected here, reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity.

Here is the final collection of articles and speeches by the bestselling and world-renowned novelist, essayist, and philosopher.

安・兰德（Ayn Rand，1905一1982）全世界有史以来最畅销的作家之一，是20世纪美国最为知名、小说和论著卖出册数最多的作家、思想家和公共知识分子之一。 安・兰德最具哲学挑战意义的哲理小说《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》（又名《地球的震栗》）（AtlasShrugged）被评为“继圣经之后对当代美国人影响最大的一本书”。此外，她还著有长篇小说《生而为人》（We the Living）、《赞歌》（Anthem）和《源泉》（The Fountainhead）。 安・兰德独特的哲学――“客观主义”在全世界都具有广泛而深人的影响。她的哲学精神在她生前由以下四本代表性论著阐明：《客观主义认识论概论》（Introduction to ObjectivistEpistemology）、《致新知识分子》（For the NewIntellectual）、《自私的美德》（T...(展开全部)

In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. These pieces, collected here, reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity.

He was the greatest tenor of his day and probably of all time. Trained naturally in singing Neapolitan ballads, Enrico Caruso (1873–1921) achieved a vocal quality often described as "celestial" or "golden." His breath control was such that he could deliver the longest phrase without any suggestion of difficulty, while his superb enunciation and an intense quality of pathos in h...(展开全部)

Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science. However, as The Bounds of Reason demonstrates, game theory alone cannot fully explain human behavior and should instead complement other key concepts championed by the behavioral disciplines. Herbert Gintis show...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德•诺思•怀特海（Alfred North Whitehead），英国著名的数学家、哲学家和教育理论家，他是20世纪庞大的形而上学体系——“过程哲学”的创始人，同时也是学界公认的20世纪伟大的哲学家之一，他在宇宙论、认识论、宗教学说三个方面超越了前人。他的《过程与实在》一书，堪与康德的《纯粹理性批判》媲美。21世纪，怀特海的过程哲学影响遍及全球：他的万物皆有物质极和精神极的理论成为现代生态学的哲理基础；物理学中的量子论印证了他的学说。 周邦宪，翻译家。1996年开始致力于翻译、介绍怀特海的过程哲学。先后译有怀特海的《观念的冒险》《过程与实在》《宗教的形成》《符号的意义及效果》，美国过程哲学家罗伯特•梅斯勒的《过程—关系哲学：浅释怀特海》，美国建设性后现代哲学家大卫•雷•格里芬的《解开世界之死结》《复魅何须超自然主义》《怀特海的另类后现代哲学》...(展开全部)

雨果·梅西耶，宾夕法尼亚大学哲学、政治和经济学博士后，法国国家科学研究中心研究员，主要研究领域是理性的功能和运作机制。 丹·斯珀伯，法国社会学家、认知学家，法国国家科学研究中心名誉教授，其最具影响力的研究领域是认知人类学及语用语言学。

Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is so useful, why didn’t it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? In their groundbreaking account of the evolution and workings of reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber set out to solve this double enigma. Reas...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafés and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a s...(展开全部)