Books for Research: Recent submissions

  • Thick Evaluation 
    Kirchin, Simon (Oxford University Press, 2017-12)
    We use evaluative terms and concepts every day, in talk of ethics, aesthetics, politics, and when we discuss common-or-garden issues. We call actions right and wrong, teachers wise and ignorant, and children annoying and ...
  • The Shape of Agency: Control, Action, Skill, Knowledge 
    Shepherd, Joshua (Oxford University Press, 2021-01)
    In this book Shepherd offers a perspective on the shape of agency by offering interlinked explanations of the basic building blocks of agency, as well as its exemplary instances. In the book’s first part, he offers accounts ...
  • The Prehistory of Mathematical Structuralism 
    Reck, Erich H.; Schiemer, Georg (Oxford University Press, 2020-06)
    Since the 1960s, there has been a vigorous and ongoing debate about structuralism in English-speaking philosophy of mathematics. But structuralist ideas and methods go back further in time; that is, there is a rich prehistory ...
  • The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering 
    Queloz, Matthieu (Oxford University Press, 2021-04)
    Why did such highly abstract ideas as truth, knowledge, or justice become so important to us? What was the point of coming to think in these terms? In The Practical Origins of Ideas, Matthieu Queloz presents a philosophical ...
  • The Many and the One: A Philosophical Study of Plural Logic 
    Florio, Salvatore; Linnebo, Øystein (Oxford University Press, 2021-09)
    Plural logic has become a well-established subject, especially in philosophical logic. This book explores its broader significance for philosophy, logic, and linguistics. What can plural logic do for us? Are the bold ...
  • Shooting to Kill: The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal Force 
    Miller, Seumas (Oxford University Press, 2016-11)
    Terrorism, the use of military force in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, and the fatal police shootings of unarmed persons have all contributed to renewed interest in the ethics of police and military use of lethal force. In ...
  • Representation in Cognitive Science 
    Shea, Nicholas (Oxford University Press, 2018-10)
    The representational theory of mind (RTM) has given us the powerful insight that thinking consists of the processing of mental representations. Behaviour is the result of these cognitive processes and makes sense in the ...
  • Moral Uncertainty 
    MacAskill, William; Bykvist, Krister; Ord, Toby (Oxford University Press, 2020-10)
    Very often, we’re uncertain about what we ought, morally, to do. We don’t know how to weigh the interests of animals against humans, or how strong our duties are to improve the lives of distant strangers, or how to think ...
  • Impossible Worlds 
    Berto, Francesco; Jago, Mark (Oxford University Press, 2019-08)
    The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed an ‘intensional revolution’, a great collective effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world and of ourselves—from meaning ...
  • For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics 
    London, Alex John (Oxford University Press, 2021-12)
    The foundations of research ethics are riven with fault lines emanating from a fear that if research is too closely connected to weighty social purposes an imperative to advance the common good through research will justify ...
  • Explaining Imagination 
    Langland, Peter; Hassan (Oxford University Press, 2020-09)
    Imagination will remain a mystery—we will not be able to explain imagination—until we can break it into simpler parts that are more easily understood. Explaining Imagination is a guidebook for doing just that, where the ...
  • Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology 
    Nicholson, Daniel J.; Dupré, John (Oxford University Press, 2018-07)
    This collection of essays explores the metaphysical thesis that the living world is not ontologically made up of substantial particles or things, as has often been assumed, but is rather constituted by processes. The ...
  • Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics 
    Burgess, Alexis; Cappelen, Herman; Plunkett, David (Oxford University Press, 2020-02)
    Conceptual engineering is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with assessing representational devices such as concepts and words. Conceptual engineers looks for the problems with such devices and attempt to come up ...
  • Branching Space-Times: Theory and Applications 
    Belnap, Nuel; Müller, Thomas; Placek, Tomasz (Oxford University Press, 2021-12)
    This book develops a rigorous theory of indeterminism as a local and modal concept. Its crucial insight is that our world contains events or processes with alternative, really possible outcomes. The theory aims at clarifying ...
  • Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations 
    Cappelen, Herman; Dever, Josh (Oxford University Press, 2021-05)
    Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? One aim of Making AI Intelligible is to show that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Cappelen and Dever ...
  • Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People 
    Levy, Neil (Oxford University Press, 2021-12)
    Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as resulting from a range of biases that together ...
  • Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics 
    Pugh, Jonathan (Oxford University Press, 2020-05)
    Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and rationality is often treated as an uncontroversial claim in ...
  • The Logic of Filtering: How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music 
    Kromhout, Melle Jan (Oxford University Press, 2021-05)
    This book traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: How do media technologies shape sound? How does this affect music? And how did it change what we listen for in music? Based on the ...
  • A Different Voice, A Different Song: Reclaiming Community through the Natural Voice and World Song 
    Bithell, Caroline (Oxford University Press, 2014-10)
    This book explores the history and significance of the natural voice movement and its culture of open-access community choirs, weekend workshops, and summer camps. Founded on the premise that “everyone can sing”, the ...
  • Politics of Security: British and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War, 1945-1970 
    Nehring, Holger (Oxford University Press, 2014-01)
    The Introduction develops the rationale for this book. It highlights the use of sociological conceptions of activism and protest to make sense of how activists campaigned. It stresses the role of experiences and symbolic ...

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