“A picture held us captive,” writes Wittgenstein in the Philosophical Investigations, describing the powerful image of mind that underlies the modern epistemological tradition from Descartes onward. Retrieving Realism offers a radical critique of the Cartesian epistemic picture that has captivated philosophy for too long and restores a realist view affirming our direct access t...(展开全部)

What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historically and culturally situated? In Perspectival Realism, Michela Massimi explores how scientific knowledge grows and evolves thanks to a plurality of epistemic communities occupying a number of scientific perspectives. The result is a ph...(展开全部)

Mark Fisher is highly respected both as a music writer and a theorist. He writes regularly for The Wire, frieze, New Statesman, and Sight & Sound. He is a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University Of London, and maintains one of the most successful weblogs on cultural theory, k-punk (http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org)

What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historically and culturally situated? In Perspectival Realism, Michela Massimi explores how scientific knowledge grows and evolves thanks to a plurality of epistemic communities occupying a number of scientific perspectives. The result is a ph...(展开全部)

Mark Fisher is highly respected both as a music writer and a theorist. He writes regularly for The Wire, frieze, New Statesman, and Sight & Sound. He is a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University Of London, and maintains one of the most successful weblogs on cultural theory, k-punk (http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org)

This Element examines the many facets of ethical realism and the issues at stake in metaethical debates about it—both between realism and non-realist alternatives, and between different versions of realism itself. Starting with a minimal core characterization of ethical realism focused on claims about meaning and truth, we go on to develop a narrower and more theoretically usef...(展开全部)

What comes after postmodernism in literature? Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective is now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature. The book thus examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and...(展开全部)

What comes after postmodernism in literature? Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective is now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature. The book thus examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and...(展开全部)

埃米莉·休斯（Emily Hughes） 一位英国儿童插画家，但在夏威夷的成长经历给了她许多灵感，她的绘画强烈地表现出对自然的热情和向往。2012年，她凭借《娜娜的形状像香蕉》获得了麦克米伦图画书奖。2014年，她创作的《野孩子》广受赞誉，被Brain Pickings独立书评网誉为向四届凯迪克奖得主莫里斯·桑达克的《野兽国》致敬的作品，并被评选为当年的推荐儿童绘本。2015年出版的新作《小园丁》一出版就受到《柯克斯书评》、《出版人周刊》《赫芬顿邮报》、美国国家公共电台等媒体的一致好评推荐。

谢丽尔·斯特雷德（Cheryl Strayed） 美国小说家、散文家、专栏作家。其文笔睿智温情，曾三度入选美国年度最佳随笔集（2000、2003、2015）。目前共出版过四本作品，被译成40种语言。《走出荒野》是她的代表作，据斯特雷德26岁那年夏天（1995年）的亲身经历写成。这本书在2012年一出版，便立即登上《纽约时报》畅销榜第一名，连续126周以上盘踞在《纽约时报》畅销榜上，罕见地横扫2012-2015年度17项图书大奖，并被执导过《达拉斯买家俱乐部》《大小谎言》的让-马克·瓦雷拍成高分口碑电影《涉足荒野》。目前，她与丈夫及两个孩子住在美国俄勒冈州波特兰。