In "Truth and Genesis", Miguel de Beistegui considers the role and meaning of philosophy today. Calling for a new departure for philosophy, one that brings together philosophy's scattered identities, de Beistegui proposes a robust and unified philosophy that would find itself equally at home in artistic and scientific disciplines. To build this renewed philosophy, de Beistegui ...(展开全部)

First published in 1951, "Genesis and Geology" describes the background of social and theological ideas and the progress of scientific researches which, between them, produced the religious difficulties that afflicted the development of science in early industrial England. The book makes clear that the furor over "On the Origin of Species" was nothing new: earlier discoveries i...(展开全部)

作者介绍 威尔弗里德·斯托克·塞拉斯（Wilfrid Stalker Sellars，1912－1989） 美国哲学家，先后在密歇根大学、布法罗大学、牛津大学和哈佛大学学习，在爱荷华大学、明尼苏达大学、耶鲁大学和匹兹堡大学执教。一生著述百余，内容涉猎广泛、视野宽阔、原创深刻、系统连贯、极富启发。主要著作有《科学、感知与实在》《哲学视角》《科学与形而上学：康德主题变奏曲》《哲学与哲学史文集》《自然主义与存在论》《纯粹语用学与种种可能世界》《康德与前康德主题：威尔弗里德·塞拉斯讲座》《康德的先验形而上学：塞拉斯的卡西尔讲座及其他文集》《在理由的空间：威尔弗里德·塞拉斯文选》等。荣誉主要有洛克讲座（1966）、杜威讲座（1974）、卡卢斯讲座（1977）、卡西尔讲座（1979）等，尤其是伦敦大学讲座（1956），内容以“经验主义与心灵哲学”为题发表，被公...(展开全部)

作者介绍 威尔弗里德·斯托克·塞拉斯（Wilfrid Stalker Sellars，1912－1989） 美国哲学家，先后在密歇根大学、布法罗大学、牛津大学和哈佛大学学习，在爱荷华大学、明尼苏达大学、耶鲁大学和匹兹堡大学执教。一生著述百余，内容涉猎广泛、视野宽阔、原创深刻、系统连贯、极富启发。主要著作有《科学、感知与实在》《哲学视角》《科学与形而上学：康德主题变奏曲》《哲学与哲学史文集》《自然主义与存在论》《纯粹语用学与种种可能世界》《康德与前康德主题：威尔弗里德·塞拉斯讲座》《康德的先验形而上学：塞拉斯的卡西尔讲座及其他文集》《在理由的空间：威尔弗里德·塞拉斯文选》等。荣誉主要有洛克讲座（1966）、杜威讲座（1974）、卡卢斯讲座（1977）、卡西尔讲座（1979）等，尤其是伦敦大学讲座（1956），内容以“经验主义与心灵哲学”为题发表，被公...(展开全部)

This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin’s first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of body and mind, and the limits of human knowledge.

Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't g...(展开全部)

Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't g...(展开全部)

For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart. Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive application of verbal skills. In classic style, the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader and writer are ...(展开全部)

Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't g...(展开全部)

Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't g...(展开全部)