Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are Universities For? offers a spirited and compelling argument for completely rethinking the way we see our universities, and why we need them. Stefan Collini challenges the common claim that...(展开全部)

Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are Universities For? offers a spirited and compelling argument for completely rethinking the way we see our universities, and why we need them. Stefan Collini challenges the common claim that...(展开全部)

This book presents a learned and ingenious attempt to understand the origin and nature of philosophical inquiry. It draws on material from numerous disciplines and from all periods of philosophy and provides challenging arguments on a wide range of topics. The author constructs a hierarchy of ontological claims, beginning with perceptual experience, moving to language and scien...(展开全部)

This book presents a learned and ingenious attempt to understand the origin and nature of philosophical inquiry. It draws on material from numerous disciplines and from all periods of philosophy and provides challenging arguments on a wide range of topics. The author constructs a hierarchy of ontological claims, beginning with perceptual experience, moving to language and scien...(展开全部)

In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Customers responded to the locally sourced organic ingredients, to the dishes made by hand, and to the ...(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)

◎ 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)

How will protecting our digital infrastructure shape our future? Cybersecurity is one of the key practical and political challenges of our time. It is at the heart of how modern societies survive and thrive, yet public understanding is still rudimentary: media portrayals of hoodie-wearing hackers accessing the Pentagon don’t convey its complexity or significance to contemporary...(展开全部)