Author: Tim Crane File Type: pdf The Objects of Thought addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about what does not exist. Tim Crane argues that the representation of the non-existent is a pervasive feature of our thought about the world, and that we will not adequately understand thoughts representational power (intentionality) unless we have understood the representation of the non-existent. Intentionality is conceived by Crane in terms of the direction of the mind upon an object of thought, or an intentional object. Intentional objects are what we think about. Some intentional objects exist and some do not. Non-existence poses a problem because there seem to be truths about non-existent intentional objects, but truths are answerable to reality, and reality contains only what exists. The proposed solution is to accept that there are some genuine truths about non-existent intentional objects, but to hold that they must be reductively explained in terms of truths about what does exist. The Objects of Thought offers both an original account of the nature of intentionality and a solution to the problem of thought about the non-existent. **Review The Objects of Thought is a rich book, full of ideas and arguments. Making room for non-existent objects is a complicated business, and Crane covers a lot of ground very clearly. So this is a great book for anyone who wishes to get a sophisticated overview of the debate about non-existent objects. Because I have only been able to discuss a very small part of this complicated issue, my suggestion is to go out and read the book. --Analysis Reviews Ambitious, ingenious, and lucid . . . Cranes excellent book . . . has all sorts of interesting and insightful things to say about metaphysics, language, and intentionality. There is a great deal to be learned about these things from TheObjects of Thought, whether or not one ultimately agrees with the details of Cranes positive view. Crane also has a fluid clear style that makes his book a pleasure to read. So I recommend it very warmly, not merely to those interested in the nonexistent, but to all those interested in metaphysics and intentionality. -- Mind His discussion throughout is both delightfully clear and eminently sensiblea quality that is rarer than it should be in view of much recent metaphysical extravagance in analytic philosophy . . . Tims Cranes account is, all told, of considerable merit, and can be recommended to anyone concerned with the nature of the mind. -- The Times Literary Supplement ingenious, full of insight and wonderfully clearly written. -- The Philosophical Quarterly elegant and original. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Crane offers a solid contribution to the debate on the problem of intentional inexistence . . . Highly recommended. -- CHOICE I recommend it highly to those interested not only in the specific matters with which it deals, but also to philosophers of mind more generally. -- Philosophy a rich book, full of ideas and arguments . . . Crane covers a lot of ground very clearly. So this is a great book for anyone who wishes to get a sophisticated overview of the debate about non-existent objects. -- Analysis About the Author Tim Crane, University of Cambridge Tim Crane is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and a Professorial Fellow of Peterhouse College. He is the author of Elements of Mind An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (OUP, 2001), and co-editor (with Katalin Farkas) of Metaphysics A Guide and Anthology (OUP, 2004). He is the philosophy editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and the general editor of the Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy. Crane is also a member (by election) of the Academia Europaea, on the editorial board of Mind and Language, and a member of the Analysis committee.

Author: Jia-Chen Fu File Type: pdf In the early twentieth century, China was stigmatized as the Land of Famine. Meanwhile in Europe and the United States, scientists and industrialists seized upon the soybean as a miracle plant that could help build modern economies and healthy nations. Soybeans, protein-packed and domestically grown, were a common food in China, and soybean milk (doujiang) was poised for reinvention for the modern age. Scientific soybean milk became a symbol of national growth and development on Chinese terms, and its competition with cows milk reflected Chinas relationship to global modernity and imperialism. The Other Milk explores the curious paths that led to the notion of the deficient Chinese diet and to soybean milk as the way to guarantee food security for the masses. Jia-Chen Fus in-depth examination of the intertwined relationships between diet, health, and nation illuminates the multiple forces that have been essential in the formation of nutrition science in China. **Review A creative and interdisciplinary approach to understanding how soybeans became a solution to the newly perceived nutritional deficiency of the Chinese diet during the late 1930s and early 1940s.Daniel Asen, author of Death in Beijing Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China A pioneering work encompassing nutrition science and nationalism in the field of modern Chinese history.Seung-joon Lee, author of Gourmets in the Land of Famine The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton Today soy milk is a fixture in every supermarket and every coffee shop, yet for hundreds of years after the Chinese discovered how to make it, it remained a minor food even in its homeland. In this delightful and timely book, Jia-Chen Fu weaves together stories about the ascent of milk in the western diet, growing Chinese anxiety about their traditional food supply, the tumultuous political changes in twentieth-century China, andthe incorporation of soy beans on American farms to explain this global culinary revolution. Authoritative and fascinating.Rachel Laudan, author of Cuisine and Empire Cooking in World History The Other Milk tells a fascinating storyhow nutrition science transformed the place of soybeans in the Chinese diet from humble components of traditional cuisine to instruments of physical and social development, only to be replaced by dairy foods as markers of modernity. This book is a superb example of how cultural history, cuisine, science, and globalization intersect around one foodsoybeans.Marion Nestle, author of Unsavory Truth How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat An outstanding contribution to food history, which exemplifies just how dynamic and vital the field has become. Soy milk will never look, or taste, the same.Mark Swislocki, author of Culinary Nostalgia Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai About the Author Jia-Chen Fu is assistant professor of Chinese at Emory University.