Oxford University Press

A Kantian Reading of the First Book of the TreatiseHenry Allison offers a new understanding of Hume's theory of knowledge, as        contained in the first book of his Treatise. Allison provides a comprehensive and        detailed critical analysis of Hume's views on the subject, and an extensive        comparison with Kant on a range of issues...

Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty - which is the norm -        requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. As analysis and        modelling of most aspects of the world, and all measurement, are necessarily        imprecise and involve uncertainties of varying degrees, the understanding and        management of...

Boyd Hilton examines the changes in politics and society in the years 1783-1846, showing how the raffish and rakish style of eighteenth-century society, having reached a peak in the Regency, then succumbed to the new norms of respectability popularly known as 'Victorianism'....

The Mythology of JudaismThe first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, Tree of Souls reveals a mythical tradition as rich and as fascinating as any in the world. Drawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore collected in the modern era, Schwartz...

History, Medicine, and EmotionThe heart is the most symbolic organ of the human body, but it is the brain that        is now commonly associated with emotion. Why then do emotional meanings of the heart        linger? Matters of the Heart traces how emotions have been understood historically,        addressing the shifting relationship from heart...

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