Are we able to do everything we ought to do? According to the important but controversial Ought Implies Can principle, the answer is yes. In this book Alex King sheds some much-needed light on this principle. She argues that it is flawed because we are obligated to perform some actions that we cannot perform, and goes on to present a suggested theory for anyone who would deny t...(展开全部)

Two decades ago the poet Robert Bly published a book that stayed on the New York Times Bestseller list for sixty-two weeks and changed a generation of men. Based on an ancient fairy tale, Iron John be

◎ 作者介绍 诺姆 • 乔姆斯基（Noam Chomsky，1928— ），著名语言学家、思想家，被誉为“现代语言学之父”。1928年出生于美国费城的犹太家庭，就学于宾夕法尼亚大学和哈佛大学，获得语言学博士学位后，长期任教于麻省理工学院。乔姆斯基的学术研究以语言学为起点，之后延伸到多个领域，如哲学、认知科学、计算机科学、心理学、社会学等。 乔姆斯基的著作有一百五十余种，受到广泛阅读，是20世纪中后期以来被引用次数最多的人文学者之一。代表性著作有《句法结构》（Syntactic Structures）、《语言学理论的逻辑结构》（The Logical Structure of Language Theory)、《论自然与语言》（On Nature and Language），以及《世界如何运转》《恐怖主义文化》《宣传与公共意识》《新自由主义与全球秩序》...(展开全部)

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research to which he has contributed for over half...(展开全部)

Freud's question is at the root of his discoveries about the unconscious. Serge André says that a woman wants the truth, and, in this subtle and highly original comparison of Freud and Lacan, he explains why.

[英]布鲁斯·胡德（Bruce Hood） 英国布里斯托大学认知发展中心主任。曾任教牛津大学、剑桥大学和哈佛大学。有200年历史的“英国皇家科学院圣诞演讲”的明星专家。著有《超感觉》（Supersense）和《自我的本质》（The Self Illusion）。

Reissued with an additional preface to sit alongside the volume on Stanley Cavell in Contemporary Philosophy in Focus this famous collection of essays covers a remarkably wide range of philosophical issues (there are essays on Wittgenstein, Austin, Kierkegaard, and the philosophy of language) and extends beyond philosophy into discussions of music and drama.

Reissued with an additional preface to sit alongside the volume on Stanley Cavell in Contemporary Philosophy in Focus this famous collection of essays covers a remarkably wide range of philosophical issues (there are essays on Wittgenstein, Austin, Kierkegaard, and the philosophy of language) and extends beyond philosophy into discussions of music and drama.

The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdiscipli...(展开全部)