Oxford University Press

The hippocampus is one of a group of remarkable structures embedded within the        brain's medial temporal lobe. Long known to be important for memory, it has been a        prime focus of neuroscience research for many years. The Hippocampus Book promises        to facilitate developments in the field in a major way by bringing together, for...

Medical Ethicists Confront CancerThis book tells the stories of seven people with a distinct perspective on cancer. Experts on medical ethics, personal experience showed them how little they knew about the real world of serious illness. In this book, they describe cancer's teachings on ethics, medicine, and the experience of illness....

In this ground-breaking book, leading epistemologists challenge and refine evidentialism, the view that epistemic justification for belief is determined solely by considerations pertaining to one's evidence. Earl Conee and Richard Feldman, the leading advocates of evidentialism, respond to each essay in this engaging and illuminating debate....

Paul Postal is a distinguished linguist at New York University. This volume consists of two parts. The first contains five studies of English syntax which cumulatively argue that it is impossible for a natural language to have a generative grammar due to a variety of theoretically neglected phomena. The second part of the volume contains seven...

This volume collects about 100 black and white portraits of contemporary philosophers, photographed in Steve Pyke's distinctive style....

Triggered into action by the shock effect of the Nazi rise to power in Germany, socialists throughout Western Europe entered an unusually active period of reorientation and debate over political strategy which helped determine the contours of European politics up to the outbreak of the Second World War and beyond....