Combining the worlds of gastronomy, food science, philosophy and fine art, a French philosopher and professor discusses whether or not cooking has become a high art, particularly based on the career o
If you accept evolutionary theory, can you also believe in God? Are human beings superior to other animals, or is this just a human prejudice? Does Darwin have implications for heated issues like euthanasia and animal rights? Does evolution tell us the purpose of life, or does it imply that life has no ultimate purpose? Does evolution tell us what is morally right and wrong, or does it imply that ultimately 'nothing' is right or wrong? In this fascinating and intriguing book, Steve Stewart-Williams addresses these and other fundamental philosophical questions raised by evolutionary theory and the exciting new field of evolutionary psychology. Drawing on biology, psychology and philosophy, he argues that Darwinian science supports a view of a godless universe devoid of ultimate purpose or moral structure, but that we can still live a good life and a happy life within the confines of this view.
An examination of the Counter-Enlightenment movement in China. In Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment, Peng Hsiao-yen argues that a trend of Counter-Enlightenment had grown from the late Qing to the May Fourth era in the 1910s to the 1920s and continued to the 1940s. She demonstrates how Counter-Enlightenment was manifested with case studies such as Lu Xun's writings in the late 1900s, the Aesthetic Education movement from the 1910s to 1920s, and the Science and Lifeview debate in the 1920s. During the period, the life philosophy movement, highlighting the epistemic debate on affect and reason, is connected with its counterparts in Germany, France, and Japan. The movement had a widespread and long-term impact on Chinese philosophy and literature. Using the transcultural lexicon as methodology, this book traces how the German term Lebensanschauung (life view), a key concept in Rudolf Eucken's life philosophy, constituted a global tide of Counter-Enlightenment that influenced the though
This revised and considerably expanded 2nd edition brings together a wide range of topics, including modal, tense, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant, and fuzzy logics. Part 1, on propositional logic, is the old Introduction, but contains much new material. Part 2 is entirely new, and covers quantification and identity for all the logics in Part 1. The material is unified by the underlying theme of world semantics. All of the topics are explained clearly using devices such as tableau proofs, and their relation to current philosophical issues and debates are discussed. Students with a basic understanding of classical logic will find this book an invaluable introduction to an area that has become of central importance in both logic and philosophy. It will also interest people working in mathematics and computer science who wish to know about the area.
本書探討的主題是地質學對人類思想的重大貢獻——“深時”的發現及其理論淵源。地球歷史是一段古老、浩瀚而我們只能通過隱喻來理解的歷史。本書圍繞“時間之箭”(敘事歷史，方向性和獨特性)和“時間之環”(內在規律，週期和重複)的二分法，結合圖像學的闡釋，重新審視和解讀了“深時”思想在西方地質學領域三位先驅及其經典著作——托馬斯‧伯內特的《地球的神聖理論》、詹姆斯‧赫頓的《地球理論》和查爾斯‧萊爾的《地質學原理》，由此重構了地球歷史的發展脈絡。--------------------關聯書目《科學哲學導論》(第四版)Philosophy of Science，Fourth Edition《技術哲學導論》Philosophy of Technology《觀念的發明者》(第三版)Inventors of Ideas，Third Edition《物理學的概念》(第五版)Physics：concepts and connections，Fourth Edition《時間之箭，時間之環》Time’s Arrow，Time’s Cycle《現代宇宙中的空間與時間》Space and Time in the Modern Universe《牛頓傳》The Life of Isaac Newton《瓦特傳》The Life and Legend of James Watt
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