Oxford University Press

What does it take to make a great motion picture? What do we even mean by cinematic greatness? What is more important: movie awards, critical acclaim, or box office success? Who has the biggest impact: the writer, the director, or the actors? Scientific research has provided some provocative answers....

Ethics for Human BeingsAt the centre of our ethical thought stands the human being. Roger Teichmann        examines the ways in which facts about human nature determine the shape of ethical        concepts such as rationality, virtue, and happiness. He argues that only by        attending to the social and empirical character of language use can we...

Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn,    Royalist Women Writers argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers' work and...

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In this book leading scholars examine the intricate ways in which Merge and formal features, two factors in the Minimalist Program, interact to generate well-formed derivations in natural language. The authors combine grammatical theory with the analysis of data drawn from a wide range of languages....

Bringing together many of the world's leading political philosophers, this engaging volume reflects the wide-ranging themes in the work of G. A. Cohen. The volume contains essays on a number of key topics, united by questions of social justice, pluralism, equality, and moral duty....