Knowledge, communication, action – These are the concepts central to all of Habermas's thought. As a philosopher, he is concerned with the rational connections of these concepts. As a sociologist, he is prepared to analyze with care the distortions of human interactions caused by existing social and political institutions. In a series of connected essays, the author assesses th...(展开全部)

Student Protest, Science, and Politics Translated by Jeremy J. Shapiro

Liberalism is egalitarian in principle, but why doesn’t it do more to promote equality in practice? In this book, the distinguished political philosopher Michael Walzer offers a critique of liberal theory and demonstrates that crucial realities have been submerged in the evolution of contemporary liberal thought. In the standard versions of liberal theory, autonomous individua...(展开全部)

Eugene Pleasants Odum (September 17, 1913 – August 10, 2002) was an American biologist at the University of Georgia known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology. He and his brother Howard T. Odum wrote the popular ecology textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology (1953). The Odum School of Ecology is named in his honor. Odum won the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1977...(展开全部)

Science, Technology and Society: A Sociological Approach is a comprehensive guide to the emergent field of science, technology, and society (STS) studies and its implications for today’s culture and society. Discusses current STS topics, research tools, and theories Tackles some of the most urgent issues in current STS studies, including power and culture, race, gender, co...(展开全部)

In its concern with science as an essentially human enterprise, Science, Faith and Society makes an original and challenging contribution to the philosophy of science. On its appearance in 1946 the book quickly became the focus of controversy. Polanyi aims to show that science must be understood as a community of inquirers held together by a common faith; science, he argues, ...(展开全部)

迈克尔·波兰尼（Michael Polanyi，1891-1976） 匈牙利裔英国哲学家，他原本是一个卓有建树的物理化学家，后来转向哲学、社会科学的研究，在物理化学、经济学和哲学等领域都做出了重要的理论贡献。意会认知论是波兰尼思想体系中的核心理论。他不但系统地探讨了意会认识的结构、运行机制、地位和作用，还将这些分析应用于对科学、社会以及许多传统哲学问题的思考。波兰尼的思想广袤深邃，一生著述众多，包括《个人知识》《科学、信仰与社会》《认知与存在》《社会、经济和哲学——波兰尼文选》等。

This systematic investigation of computation and mental phenomena by a noted psychologist and computer scientist argues that cognition is a form of computation, that the semantic contents of mental states are encoded in the same general way as computer representations are encoded. It is a rich and sustained investigation of the assumptions underlying the directions cognitive sc...(展开全部)