Oxford University Press

and other philosophical essaysSimon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to        2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of a wide range of topics,        including moral philosophy, the theory of meaning, pragmatism, and the theory of        reason and reasoning....

Parmenides of Elea is generally considered the most profound and challenging of the Presocratic philosophers. John Palmer develops and defends a fundamentally original interpretation of Parmenides and his place in early Greek thought. An appendix presents a Greek text of the fragments of Parmenides' poem with English translation and textual notes....

Einstein's theory of gravitation, known as 'general relativity', was also a defining event for 20th century philosophy of science. During the decisive first ten years of the theory's existence, two main tendencies dominated it philosophical reception. This book is an extended argument that the path actually taken, which became logical empiricist...

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This is the first book to cover a new and rapidly developing research field in        physics. Confining light in small structures called microcavities produces new        devices which exploit the quantum physics of light matter interactions....

This volume brings together fourteen of the best papers by the late Philip Quinn, one of the world's leading philosophers of religion. It covers the following topics: religious epistemology, religious ethics, religion and tragic dilemmas, religion and political liberalism, topics in Christian philosophy, and religious diversity....