Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books
Charles Sanders Peirce was the founder of the philosophical tradition known as pragmatism. He is als
In his book Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More
When confronted with a law that they find morally unconscionable, citizens sometimes engage in civil
Pretty much everyone who’s done a linguistics course has come across the name of Ferdinand de Saussu
Muzammil Hussain and Phillip Howard have authored Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Ara
Every hundred years or so, the Supreme Court decides a question with truly vast economic implication
Eric Hayot‘s new book is a bold, ambitious, and inspiring call for revising the way we think about,
Pragmatism is American’s home-grown philosophy, but it is not widely understood. This partly is due
Sarah Reckhow is the author of Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politic
Feed: “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” Comic: “Practice!” When I first began to build a jazz record
For decades now, philosophers, linguists, psychologists and neuroscientists have been working to und
In language, as in life, history is constantly repeating itself. In her book The Linguistic Cycle: L
The only disappointment with A History of Psycholinguistics: The Pre-Chomskyan Era (Oxford UP, 2012)
The end of the Cold War dramatically changed research into the Holocaust. The gradual opening up of
This year is the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision which legalize
What do “Rip van Winkle,” Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Aesop’s Fables have in common? All of
The 1970s and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict are quite possibly the two most depressing subjects an
It’s taken for granted among analytic philosophers that some of their primary areas of inquiry – eth
Building upon The Origins of Meaning (see previous interview), James R. Hurford‘s The Origins of Gra
The question of how “ordinary Germans” managed to commit genocide is a classic (and troubling) one i
