This book examines how virtuous behaviors evolved in humans and other species by looking at the adaptive functions moral…

Can cinema be a medium for philosophy? If so, how is the philosophizing done? Paisley Livingston explores the philosophical…

Oxford Instruments is one of the UK's success stories - a science-based company which from the earliest beginnings in a…

An in-depth analysis of the global poverty 'problem' and how it is framed and understood. The volume questions existing…

The book treats microfluidics theory and its applications to lab-on-a-chip systems. It covers fluid dynamics and how to…

How should we respond to a child's temper tantrum? How can we help children and teens experience their anger without being…

The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new conflicts, as ethnic minorities and…

This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than…

David Owen explores Hume's account of reason and its role in human understanding, seen in the context of other notable…

Natural General Intelligence aims to provide a bridge between the theories of those who study biological brains and the…

Love, Subjectivity, and Truth interprets Marcel Proust\'s masterpiece as an inquiry into love and the meaning of life,…

Musical Form and Transformation collects four of David Lewin's analytic essays to stimulate thought about the general…

This book collects lectures and seminars given at the Les Houches Summer School 2008 on Long-Range Interacting Systems. It…

Western esotericism has now emerged as an academic study in its own right, combining spirituality with an empirical…

Development is not a purely economic phenomenon; it also has a strong sociological element. This book surveys narratives of…

Band theory is evident all around us and yet is one of the most stringent tests of quantum mechanics. This textbook attempts…

Provides an introduction to psychological research for musicians - performers, music educators, and studio teachers. This…

Produkt Modern Misogyny - Anderson, Kristin J. (Associate Professor of Psychology, Associate Professor of Psychology,…

Spanning examples from Shakespeare to Ghost World, and addressing such notable directors as Welles, Kubrick, Hawks,…

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\nObligation and Responsibility challenges widely held perspectives on moral responsibility and moral obligation. Apart from…

In over 1,000 entries, this acclaimed Companion covers all aspects of the Western fairy tale tradition, from medieval to…

How can we know what is worth seeking or avoiding in life? Is there anything to know? If so, is it in some sense personal?…

This book develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualize…

This book traces the lines of research that grew out of Thomas Bever's "The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures".…

This book explores the expression of information source, inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and…

Brian Skyrms applies adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory, investigating…

In this series of essays published over forty years Charles Kahn explicates the ancient Greek concept of Being. His…

A scholarly edition of a work by Cicero. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction,…

\nOxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations…

\nChristian theology is monotheistic, but the idea of the trinity problematises this: how can there be one god, but also…

What is wrong with discriminating on the basis of personal appearance? Andrew Mason considers this question in three…

Daniel Greco argues that the landscape of epistemology looks quite different when viewed through the lens of idealization…

\nMovements of the Mind addresses the fundamental question of what it is to be an agent. Wayne Wu tackles the phenomenon of…

This book defends a radical view: the word \'democracy\' means nothing and should be abandoned. According to the…