This collection of Michael Dummett's philosophical essays, spanning more than twenty years, ranges in topic from time to the philosophy of mathematics, but is unified by a steady philosophical outlook. The essays are, in one way or another, informed by Dummett's concern with metaphysical questions and his belief that the correct approach to them is via the theory of meaning. Re...(展开全部)

Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to “the mind of God.” As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google’s divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend John Durham Peters, provides a genealogy of the information age fr...(展开全部)

Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to “the mind of God.” As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google’s divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend John Durham Peters, provides a genealogy of the information age fr...(展开全部)

In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of truth. Furthermore, he argues that, contrary to received opinion, the metaphysical question of realism is distinct from, and prior to, any semantic question about truth. The book makes incisive re...(展开全部)

Crispin Wright offers an original perpsective on the place of "realism" in philosophical inquiry, proposing a new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical "deflationary" conception of truth, yet allows both disputants to respect the intuition that judgements, whose status they contest, are at least semantica...(展开全部)

Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are a...(展开全部)

迈克尔·哥文（Michael Gelven，1937—2018），华盛顿大学哲学博士，师从美国现象学先驱、《现象学运动》作者赫伯特·施皮格伯格，后于北伊利诺伊大学哲学系任教46年，1997年起任该校杰出研究教授，直至2011年荣誉退休。著有《海德格尔〈存在与时间〉评注》《凛冬、友情与罪责：自我探究的源泉》《精神与存在：哲学的探索》《真理与存在：哲学的探索》《为何是我？命运的哲学探索》《战争与存在：哲学的探索》《追求善好：判断、价值和存在的哲学探索》《存在的风险： 好与坏的含义》《邪恶这边》《提问之谜：哲学的探索》《真理与喜剧艺术》《于思之际，何所发生》《评判希望：抵达真与假》。 周建漳，厦门大学哲学系教授，主要从事现代西方哲学、历史哲学研究，近年专注于真理理论研究。著有《历史及其理解和解释》《历史哲学》等，译有阿瑟·丹图著《叙述与认识》、安克斯密特著...(展开全部)

Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are a...(展开全部)