本书是一项中英两国学者合作的成果，对当代英美哲学的描述十分清晰，对西方哲学的横向延拓和纵向发展，都作了很细致的阐述，真正做到了深入浅出，是一本学习西方入门书。本书中附有大量的思考题和全面、丰富的参考书目，为有志进一步深入研究英美哲学者提供了良好的途径。

为了探讨哲学和元哲学问题，实验哲学借用心理学和认知科学中的实验研究方法。它探讨了关于心理世界的本性的哲学问题——我们关对事物所形成的概念的结构或意义，探讨了关于非心理世界的本性的哲学问题——物自身。它还探索了哲学探究的本性以及探究哲学的合适方法论等元哲学问题。 本书为这一富有创新性的领域提供了一个详实的和令人振奋的导论，聚焦于实验哲学和更加传统的分析哲学的目标与方法之间的关系。本书特别注重详细认真地检视实验哲学中截然不同的哲学计划，实验哲学的独特的优势与不足，以及实验哲学对于我们的哲学理解所能够作出的独特贡献。全书语言清新流畅，可读性强，在当代和历史的语境中定位实验哲学，解释了实验哲学的目标和方法，通过与实验哲学批评者的交战，检视并批判性地评价了实验哲学最富有意义的主张和论证。

Hilary Putnam's unceasing self-criticism has led to the frequent changes of mind he is famous for, but his thinking is also marked by considerable continuity. A simultaneous interest in science and ethics - unusual in the current climate of contention - has long characterized his thought. In "Philosophy in an Age of Science", Putnam collects his papers for publication - his first volume in almost two decades. Mario De Caro and David Macarthur's introduction identifies central themes to help the reader negotiate between Putnam past and Putnam present: his critique of logical positivism; his enduring aspiration to be realist about rational normativity; his anti-essentialism about a range of central philosophical notions; his reconciliation of the scientific worldview and the humanistic tradition; and his movement from reductive scientific naturalism to liberal naturalism. Putnam returns here to some of his first enthusiasms in philosophy, such as logic, mathematics, and quantum mechanics. The reader is given a glimpse, too, of ideas currently in development on the subject of perception. Putnam's work, contributing to a broad range of philosophical inquiry, has been said to represent a "history of recent philosophy in outline." Here it also delineates a possible future.

In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgenstein's analysis of the notion of following a rule.

本书可以说是我社已出版的《“是”与“真”——形而上学的基石》的姊妹篇，如果说后一本书主要是以西方哲学史上两个重要的范畴“是”与“真”为切入点，从微观的层面探讨逻辑与哲学的关系，那么《逻辑与哲学》则进了一个层次，从较为宏观的角度，即从逻辑和哲学两个学科的层面来探讨逻辑和哲学的关系。作者认为，西方哲学的主要特征是逻辑的、分析的，而中国哲学的主要特征是体验的、综合的，因而，正确理解逻辑与哲学的关系，有助于我们正确了解西方哲学的历史嬗变和全貌。全书约28万字，是作者近年研究的一部力作，展现了作者对逻辑与哲学关系的许多独到见解。

《可能世界的逻辑》由上海译文出版社出版。