哲学

谜语、悖论、难题，几千年来，总有些棘手的逻辑问题既让人类的心灵感到困惑，又让人难以抗拒。如今，罗伊·索伦森教授给我们带来了一部关于悖论的叙事史。他的叙述从古希腊开始，穿过中世纪、启蒙运动，直到20世纪，引人入胜又让人大开眼界。 在书中，他仔细地审视了哲学史上许多著名悖论以及提出这些悖论的哲学家们。同时，他按照编年史的体例将这些内容分为二十四章，每一章都把一位哲学家和一个重要的悖论结合起来，以通俗易懂的方式阐述在解决这些谜题的过程中曾被采用的策略，并且将谜题扩充至更加广阔的领域。 随着索伦森教授的生动讲述，读者可以与芝诺、苏格拉底、阿奎那、奥卡姆、帕斯卡、康德、黑格尔等许多哲学家一起深入悖论的纠结之处，一同寻找思维魔方的解决办法。

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a 'five-pound note' with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, and government), and contrasts it to a brute reality that is independent of human agreement. Searle shows that brute reality provides the indisputable foundation for all social reality, and that social reality, while very real, is maintained by nothing more than custom and habit.

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