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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews，圣母大学哲学评论，专注高质量学术哲学书籍评论。

分享思想：关于主体间性与沟通的哲学视角

这是一篇针对牛津大学出版社新书《Sharing Thoughts: Philosophical Perspectives on Intersubjectivity and Communication》的书评。该书探讨了如何界定“思想”（thoughts）及其构成成分，以解释跨主体（intersubjective）现象如沟通。文章指出，若将思想按外部真值条件来界定，会产生悖论（例如 George Eliot 与 Mary Ann Evans 的指称案例），且与弗雷格约束（Frege's constraint）存在冲突。书评者简要介绍了书中的核心问题，但未展开讨论其中三篇优秀论文。内容偏学术，面向哲学研究者。

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收藏8 天前

斯宾诺莎论人类视角

这本论文集挑战了Althusser等人将Spinoza解读为反人本主义者的传统观点，论证Spinoza哲学确实关注人的本性。书中多位学者探讨了人类本质是否统一、"形式"概念的解读分歧（如与Zourabichvili物质主义读法的对比）、理性冲突为何不可能等核心问题。对Spinoza研究者和哲学爱好者有参考价值，但对一般科技读者而言门槛较高，互动空间有限。

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收藏8 天前

从人类推理到信念：一个经验性说明

Joshua Mugg 的新书主张人类推理是单一过程理论（SPT），挑战心理学与认知神经科学中广为流传的双过程理论（DPT）。作者梳理了双过程理论的几次"撤退"：从最初"认知被切成快慢两块"的强声明，退到统计聚类版，再退到"本质化"版本（如 Evans 主张 Type-1 不用工作记忆）。书中随后用 SPT 去解释信念与信念形成的一系列实证结果。这是一篇 Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 的书评，面向哲学/认知科学读者，对普通科技读者信息密度中等，争议性有限。

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收藏11 天前

消解心智表征

对《Deflating Mental Representations》的学术书评。该书挑战当前主流的“表征理论心智”(RTM)，认为心智状态不必预设指向外部现实的心理表征；书评认为本书在计算认知科学方面的表述极为清晰，但作者最终未被其主要论点说服。对认知科学与心智哲学有持续兴趣的读者可作参考。

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收藏11 天前

为末日世界做的哲学

书评：Tim Mulgan 新书在 Samuel Scheffler《Death and Afterlife》思想实验基础上做了一个关键修改——人类灭绝是确定的但不是即时的，还有 200 年时间。这个"缓期"让"意义依赖未来"的困境多出一层可探索空间：绝望与失序不再是唯一可能反应，也催生出持续悲观者、现时主义者等多种立场之间的辩论。对科技读者而言，这是一个用哲学工具讨论"有限时间下文明意义如何重新校准"的思想实验，有讨论入口但偏学术书评，信息增量中等，互动有限。

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收藏15 天前

Phases of Objects

What happens to a clay statue after you squash it? Some say it ceases to exist, but the lump of clay—a distinct object that had been co-located with it—continues to exist. Others say that the statue c...

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收藏16 天前

Skepticism and Fallibilism,

Scepticism is the view that we know almost nothing. Despite its historical pedigree, and its centrality both as a topic of research and as a staple of undergraduate syllabi, this view has few contempo...

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收藏21 天前

The End of Binaries: How Gender and Sexuality Come in Degrees

The gender binary is a collective effort to divide human beings into exclusive and exhaustive groups of men and women based on their reproductive capacities, and to impose different social expectation...

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收藏21 天前

Pablo of Texcoco, How to Be Grateful: An Aztec Guide to the Art of Gratitude

How to Be Grateful is a new translation of the Bancroft Dialogues by two of the most eminent scholars in Nahua Studies, Drs. Frances Karttunen and Camilla Townsend. The Bancroft Dialogues is a series ...

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收藏32 天前

The Art of Seeing Beyond Oneself: A Confucian Perspective on Humility

Doil Kim identifies Confucian humility as a form of “self-lowering”. Other forms under this capacious heading have been criticized as prescribing self-effacement or self-sacrifice. Failure to distingu...

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收藏32 天前

Proclus on Aristotle on Plato: A Case Study on Motion

In the Timaeus, Plato famously characterised time as ‘an image of eternity moving according to number’. The former is a derivative, partial reflection of the latter. It is not the case that eternity i...

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收藏38 天前

Reference and Beyond: Essays in Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press

No philosopher has done more than Michael Devitt to develop an account of language that accommodates (i) the broadly Fregean insight that the meanings of proper names and of certain other terms seem n...

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收藏45 天前

Nietzsche on the Methods and Aims of Philosophy

Friedrich Nietzsche’s penetrating psychological insights uncovered several pathologies obscurely hidden within modern morality. Prominent among these maladies, given its Judeo-Christian lineage, is mo...

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收藏45 天前

Susan Stebbing: Philosophical Papers

Susan Stebbing (1885-1943) was a prominent analytic philosopher in the generation after Russell and Moore. Stebbing was highly influential on the post-war generation of analytic philosophers, but her ...

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收藏53 天前

Respecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships

Adam Cureton’s Respecting Disability: Attitudes, Ideals, and Relationships is the inaugural title in OUP’s new book series, Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, and Society, and it sets the bar high ...

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收藏53 天前

Disappearing Ink: Essays in Early Modern Philosophy

In his preface to this volume of Eileen O'Neill's collected essays, Gary Ostertag notes two book projects that O'Neill discussed writing: one on occasional causation in early modern philosophy, and a ...

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收藏56 天前

Facing Authority: A Theory of Political Legitimacy

In Facing Authority: A Theory of Political Legitimacy, Thomas Fossen aims to do away with the standard methodologies for thinking through the puzzle of legitimate political authority. After quickly ar...

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收藏61 天前

Political Philosophy: The Fundamentals

Thom Brooks offers this slender and skilful volume as an introduction to political philosophy. It would perform admirably as a textbook in an introductory course at the undergraduate level. The book a...

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收藏62 天前

Varieties of Happiness: Eudaimonism and Greek Ethical Theory

When the story of the history of ethics is told, the ancient Greeks are often grouped together as eudaimonists. This usually means that an individual’s happiness or well-being is the ultimate justific...

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收藏62 天前

Also a History of Philosophy, Vol. I: The Project of a Genealogy of Postmetaphysical Thinking

In his magisterial, three-volume Also a History of Philosophy (AHP; German: Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie, 2 Vols., Suhrkamp 2019), Habermas sets forth an extended historical defense of central...

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收藏67 天前

Wollstonecraft: Independent Woman

Alan Coffee approaches Mary Wollstonecraft’s works with the aim of showing their philosophical value. Wollstonecraft wrote in a wide variety of genres, none of which is easily identified as philosophi...

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收藏70 天前

The Rich and the Poor

Philip Kitcher has written a cri de couer lamenting the decline of the welfare states he recalls flourished in his native Britain in the 1950’s and 60’s. He begins by recounting the kindness of a scho...

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收藏70 天前