内容简介
　　《人文科学专业英语教程》自1999年出版以来，深受读者欢迎，被许多高校用作专业英语教学阶段的教科书。2006年，它又被教育部评为普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材，这无疑体现了专家和学者们对该教材的肯定。新的荣誉带来了新的要求，在试用了七八年后，我们觉得有必要对原教材进行较大规模的修订，以便使教材内容和语言都更好地反映时代的要求。
其次，修订这本教材还基于以下的原因：2004年初，教育部颁发了《大学英语课程教学要求》，用以替代原来的《大学英语教学大纲》。它在“较高要求”和“更高要求”中，对学生的专业英语能力提出了比原来的教学大纲更高的要求；根据大纲制订者的解释，这是为了适应我国改革开放新形势的要求而采取的举措。
形势的确在变化，但是，这并不意味着学习英语的规律完全变了。而许多这类教材编写者所追求的目标和境界就是如何使教材既反映时代的变化又保持传统的优势。在新修订的这本教材中，我们采用经典和时文相结合的方式，力图实现这一目标。如果说原教材在选材上侧重著名学者的经典著作的话，那么，新修订的版本则是一方面保留了内容和文字皆佳的经典之作，另一方面又补充了相当数量的上个世纪后半期至今的著作，这样不仅可以体现语言的时效性，也能够使读者接触到新知识和新论点。

目录
Unit One
Text: The Reality of the External World
　Reading Passage One: Philosophers' Doubts
　Reading Passage Two: Philosophy in Education: The Allegory of the Cave
Unit Two
　Text: Historian in an Age of Crisis
　Reading Passage One: The Warden
　Reading Passage Two: To Make Them Stand in Fear
Unit Three
　Text: Religion and Reality
　Reading Passage One: Honor the Divine
　Reading Passage Two: American Religion: The State, the Congregation and the People
Unit Four
　Text: The Function of Literature
　Reading Passage One: Tradition and the Individual Talent
　Reading Passage Two: Some Self-Analysis
Unit Five
　Text: The Subject-Matter of Ethics
　Reading Passage One: An Analysis of Moore's Definition of Good
　Reading Passage Two: The Defence of Common Sense
Unit Six
　Text: Value Judgment in History
　Reading Passage One: The Rehabilitation of Europe
Unit Seven
Text: Religious Evolution
Reading Passage One: Modem Mission, Global Christianity
Reading Passage Two: What's Right about the Religious Right
Unit Eight
Text: Abstraction in Science and Art
Reading Passage One: The Metaphysical Hypothesis
Reading Passage Two: Clive Bell and His Metaphysical Hypothesis
Unit Nine
Text: James's Theory of Truth
Reading Passage One: The Need for a Theory of the Good
Reading Passage Two: Nature
Unit Ten..,,
Text: History and the Social Sciences
Reading Passage One: Biography and History
Reading Passage Two: The Seismic Sixties: When and Why Did the Sixties Begin?
Unit Eleven
Text: What Is Theological Knowledge?
Reading Passage One: The Collapse of Community and Custom
Reading Passage Two: Changing Patterns in American Religious Life
Unit Twelve
Text: Some Coordinates of Art Criticism
Reading Passage One: The Work of Art as Imaginary Object
Reading Passage Two: Art as Experience
Appendix I Key to Exercises
Appendix II Chinese Translation of the Texts
Appendix III Glossary