Oxford University Press

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....

De Waal examines the famine in Dafur, Sudan in 1984 - 5, and aid agencies' response to it. De Waal claims that humanitarian aid can be made more effective by looking at the underlying causes of local response to disaster rather than relying simply on providing massive amounts of food aid, which is often distributed ineffectively. De Waal argues...

Argentina and the Legacies of TortureIn A Lexicon of Terror, Marguerite Feitlowitz fully exposes the nightmare of        sadism, paranoia, and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine        people during the Dirty War, a nightmare that would claim over 30,000 civilians from        1976 to 1983. Feitlowitz explores the...