Oxford University Press

If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears        to have gone seriously wrong. Citizens around the world have become distrustful of        politicians, sceptical about democratic institutions, and disillusioned about the        capacity of democratic politics to resolve pressing social concerns. This shift...

Ernest Sosa presents a new approach to the problems of knowledge and scepticism. He argues for two levels of knowledge, the animal and the reflective, each viewed as a distinctive human accomplishment. Sosa's virtue epistemology illuminates different varieties of scepticism, the nature and status of intuitions, and epistemic normativity....

Here, nine leading Civil War historians shed new light on the greatest battle in        our history, focusing in particular on the unknown, the controversial, and what        might have been. What did the conflict do to the citizens of Gettysburg? How did        Joshua Chamberlain come to be seen as the "e;hero"e; of the battle? How did the...

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How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his later years, Sakharov noted in his diary that he was 'simply a man with an unusual fate'. To understand this deceptively straightforward statement by an...