Oxford University Press

We talk about what doesn't exist. We say: "e;Mickey Mouse was invented by Walt Disney,"e; and if we say this, we've said something true. But if something doesn't exist, it has no properties. (What, after all, is it that's supposed to have properties?) How, then, can anything we say be true (or false) of such things? This is the old problem...

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Woodward's long awaited book is an attempt to construct a comprehensive account of causation explanation that applies to a wide variety of causal and explanatory claims in different areas of science and everyday life. The book engages some of the relevant literature from other disciplines, as Woodward weaves together examples, counterexamples,...

The Ballet of the Planets unravels the beautiful mystery of planetary motion,        revealing how our understanding of astronomy evolved from Archimedes and Ptolemy to        Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton. Mathematician Donald Benson shows that ancient        theories of planetary motion were based on the assumptions that the Earth was...

This book investigates how Syon Abbey responded to the religious turbulence of the        1520s and 1530s. It examines the eleven books three brothers - William Bonde, John        Fewterer and Richard Whitford - had printed during this period and argues that the        Bridgettines used vernacular printing to engage with religious and...

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