Oxford University Press

The phenomenon of substitution failure is a longstanding focus of discussion for philosophers of language. Jennifer Saul presents the first full-length treatment of this puzzling feature of language, and explores its implications for the theory of reference and names, and for the methodology of semantics....

In a sinister Siberian landscape, an English girl searches for the truth about her brother's death....

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Sensible Finance for a Dynamic EconomyOur prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment-and bear responsibility for outcomes. And widespread enterprise is fostered through dialogue and relationships, not merely prices in anonymous markets. Yet modern finance blatantly...

One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the        establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked        between the Andes and the Pacific. This edition offers new insights into Conrad's        masterpiece....

On Film as PhilosophyCan cinema be a medium for philosophy? If so, how is the philosophizing done?        Paisley Livingston explores the philosophical value of cinema. As a case-study for        his intentionalist theory of authorship and interpretation he focuses on Ingmar        Bergman's cinematic explorations of motivated irrationality,...