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Joseph Butler's The Analogy of Religion (1736) is a classic defence of Christian belief against many well-known objections. This edition includes a detailed synopsis, a selection from the correspondence between Butler and Samuel Clarke, and an overview of philosophical influences on Butler's thought.

Joseph Butler's The Analogy of Religion (1736) is a classic defence of Christian belief against many well-known objections. This edition includes a detailed synopsis, a selection from the correspondence between Butler and Samuel Clarke, and an overview of philosophical influences on Butler's thought.

This book explores the extraordinarily diverse and beautiful world of insects, from tiny wasps to giant beetles. It analyses insect evolution, and describes their behaviour, their environments, and the interactions they have with other animals. It also discusses their vital role in all land ecosystems, and their importance for our own survival.

This handbook explores what events are, how we perceive them, how we use language to describe them, how we reason with them, and the role they play in the organization of grammar and discourse. It takes an interdisciplinary approach with insights from linguistics, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science.

Mark Richard presents an original theory of meaning, as the collection of assumptions speakers make in using it and expect their hearers to recognize as being made. Meaning is spread across a population, inherited by each new generation of speakers from the last, and evolving through the interactions of speakers with their environment.

Elinor Mason draws on both ethics and responsibility theory to present a pluralistic view of both wrongness and blameworthiness. She identifies three different ways to be blameworthy, corresponding to different ways of acting wrongly.

Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. His starting-point is that reality provides the data which we transform into information. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge, and defends the radical idea that knowledge is design.

This is the key text for anyone wishing to understand the functions, powers, and composition of the EU's institutions. From the Council of Ministers to the European Central Bank, all of the most important organisations are analysed and explained by international experts.

Why is cabinet government so resilient? Why does it continue to be the vehicle for governing across most parliamentary systems? Comparing Cabinets examines the structure and performance of cabinet government in five democracies, with a particular focus on the influence of differing traditions, beliefs, and practices, to address these questions.

Scientific and technological advancements have allowed us to create beings that blur the distinctions between human, non-human animal, and non-biological beings, which challenge our assumptions about moral status. This volume explores our responses to these challenges and reflects on ordinary presuppositions and intuitions about moral status.

The Oxford Handbook of Publishing marks the coming of age of the scholarship in publishing studies with a comprehensive exploration of current research on subjects such as copyright, corporate social responsibility, globalizing markets, and changing technology that have transformed the industry in recent years.

Origen is frequently hailed as the most important Christian writer of his period. This book examines whether there was a system to Origen's thinking about prophecy.

Combines research from different disciplines to assess social mobility in developing countries.

A comparative study of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that explores the differences and similarities between the worlds that are portrayed by each text, with a focus on the strategies and limits of personal agency, and the significance and social dynamics of story-telling.

This book is a philosophical study of the liturgy and what liturgical agents actually do, rather than focusing on their formative and expressive functions.

Studies the representation of violence in tragedies written for the French stage during the sixteenth century, and explores its connection with issues such as politics, religion, gender, and militantism to place the plays within their historical, cultural, and theatrical contexts.

The eastern frontier of the Roman Empire has long remained one of the great gaps in our knowledge of the ancient world, barely visited and effectively unknown - until now. Timothy Bruce Mitford offers a richly illustrated account of half a century of academic exploration, travel, and discovery, set against a background of a disappearing world.

Britain: Health and the People c1000-Present Day Student Book Second Edition is part of the Oxford AQA GCSE History series. Updated as part of our commitment to the inclusive presentation of diverse histories and to reflect the world around us, this textbook covers the development of medicine and public health in Britain.

Britain: Power and the People c1170-Present Day Student Book Second Edition is part of the Oxford AQA GCSE History series. Updated as part of our commitment to the inclusive presentation of diverse histories and to reflect the world around us, this textbook covers the relationship between the citizen and the state in Britain.

Britain: Migration, Empires and the People c790-Present Day Student Book Second Edition is part of the Oxford AQA GCSE History series. Updated as part of our commitment to the inclusive presentation of diverse histories and to reflect the world around us, this textbook covers the story of migration in Britain and its relations with the wider world.

The book is an up-to-date and augmented version that keeps the concise and rigorous writing of its inspiring French language predecessors. It is based on laboratory and field experience of both authors, with a focus towards hard rocks and magmatic rocks from both the continental crust worldwide and the mantle, principally from the Oman ophiolites.

This book launches a sustained defense of a radical interpretation of the doctrine of the open future. Patrick Todd argues that all claims about undetermined aspects of the future are simply false.

This book focuses on a question issued from The Architectonic of Pure Reason, one of the most important sections of Kant's first Critique: what is the human being? It suggests that the answer to this question is tied to a particular account of the unity of reason - one that stresses its purposive character.

Europe's Transformations brings together a group of distinguished academics and practitioners to reflect on the current state of the EU and the many challenges that it faces. The contributions are prompted by the seminal work of Loukas Tsoukalis and his relentless provocations about the capabilities of the European process to meet these challenges.

Global Taxation investigates the global transition to modern taxation from the 18th century to today. Modern taxation refers to the broad-based tax instruments that allowed for the emergence of big government as we know it today, including, most prominently, income taxes and general consumption taxes

This book puts forward an elegant theory of secessionism in liberal-democracies. It explains why some nationalist movements have experienced a significant increase in the strength of secessionism over the last decade or so, while other have not.

Schopenhauer saw compassion as the basis of morality. Ingmar Persson argues that compassion must be supplemented with attitudes like sympathy and benevolence, and that morality essentially involves a concern for justice which is independent of attitudes based on empathy.

This book provides an accessible and highly engaging discussion of customary international law. It employs an original theoretical perspective to unpack the structures of thought that lie beneath any claims made regarding customary international law.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive look at the hedge fund industry from a global perspective.

The Politics of the Earth is an innovative and highly respected introduction to environmental politics through a discourse-centred approach. From sustainability to green radicalism, this is the most comprehensive guide to understanding how discourses shape environmental affairs.