Oxford University Press

This edition contains a new article by Oliver Williamson entitled, "e;Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory"e;....

Consciousness, Intentionality, and Cognition in Buddhist PhilosophyPerceiving Reality examines the epistemic function of perception and the relation between language and conceptual thought, and provides new ways of conceptualizing the Buddhist defense of the reflexivity thesis of consciousness: namely, that each cognitive event is to be understood...

"e;More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation        is always better, and optimization is best."e; More-is-better ideals such as these        have long shaped our vision of rationality. Yet humans and other animals typically        rely on simple heuristics to solve adaptive problems, focusing on one...

One of mankind's most enduring questions is the legitimate scope of state power: how far and in what ways may the government meddle with people's lives? Where lies the line that government ought not cross? For more than three centuries, the western world has answered these questions with a set of institutions and practices that have come to be...

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Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology. Yet the only skeptical view that has been truly held--by Sextus, Montaigne, Hume, Wittgenstein, and, most recently, Robert Fogelin--has been Pyrrohnian skepticism. Pyrrhonian skeptics do not assert Cartesian skepticism, but neither do they deny...