Oxford University Press

Technology That Will Change the WorldImagine living in 1958, and knowing that the integrated circuit--the microchip--was about to be invented, and would revolutionize the world. Or imagine 1992, when the Internet was about to transform virtually every aspect of our lives. Incredibly, this book argues that we stand at such a moment right now--and...

Michelle Kosch examines the conceptions of free will and the foundations of ethics in the work of Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard. She seeks to understand the history of German idealism better by looking at it through the lens of these issues, and to understand Kierkegaard better by placing his thought in this context....

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The Essential Davidson compiles the most celebrated papers of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. With a new introduction by Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, two of the world's leading authorities on his work, the volume distils Donald Davidson's seminal contributions to our understanding of language, the mind, action, and knowledge,...

Much has been said about the re-emergence of China to its historical position of eminence in the world economy, yet little is understood about the kind of economic system China is evolving. What are the rules of the game of business in today's China, and how are they likely to change over the next decades?...

"e;24 hours to save the NHS"e;. It was a political slogan but it hid a deeper        question. Could the NHS survive? Could it continue to offer free health care for        every citizen regardless of their ability to pay? Could the extraordinary,        liberating ambition and dream of its founders 50 years before be maintained in...