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Lucy O'Brien argues that a satisfactory account of first-person reference and self-knowledge needs to concentrate on our nature as agents. Clearly written, with rigorous discussion of rival views, this book will be of interest to anyone working in the philosophy of mind and action....

In 1962, amidst the Cuban Revolution, Third World decolonization, and the African American freedom movement, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago became the first British West Indian colonies to gain independence. This book is an international history of Anglo-American-Caribbean relations, including the role of the transnational African diaspora, during...

Kit Fine has since the 1970s been one of the leading contributors to work at the intersection of logic and metaphysics. This is his eagerly-awaited first book in the area. It draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense. These puzzling aspects of the way the world is have been the...

A closely held firm is not a smaller version of a large public firm, anymore than        a child is a miniature adult. While realizing that like large corporations, value        comes from a business's ability to generate future cash flows, Long and Bryant        emphasize the differences between the two. The primary question is does a...

The first major consideration of old age in Western philosophy and literature since Simone de Beauvoir's   The Coming of Age, Helen Small ranges widely from Plato through to recent work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams and others, and from    King Lear through Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Bellow, Roth, and Coetzee....

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most popular texts for study by secondary students the world over. This edition...