scholarly journals Murphy, Antoin E.: The Genesis of Macroeconomics: New Ideas from Sir William Petty to Henry Thornton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, x＋234pp.

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-126
Author(s):  
Asahi Noguchi
Keyword(s):  
Oxford University ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Oxford University Press

Zoltán Kövecses, Metaphor: A practical introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 285. Pb. $19.95.

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 596-599
Author(s):  
Chienjer Charles Lin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Oxford University Press

This is the first textbook on metaphor to appear after the cognitive linguistic revolution of metaphorical research launched two decades ago by Lakoff & Johnson with their pioneering work, Metaphors we live by. Much scholarship has since been devoted to this paradigm of research. Twenty years have passed, and Kövecses takes this as a good time to summarize the development of the field. Writing a textbook on metaphor certainly reflects the maturation of the study of metaphor within the cognitive linguistic tradition. Targeted readers are undergraduate and graduate students with interests in metaphor and cognitive linguistics. Experienced researchers may also find this book helpful in motivating new ideas.

Swinburne's explanation of the universe

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
QUENTIN SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Richard Swinburne ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Oxford University Press

Richard Swinburne, Is There a God? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. vii+144.Swinburne's Is There A God? presents a brief, updated version of his book, The Existence of God, in which Swinburne argued that criteria used in scientific reasoning could be used to argue that God probably exists. This new book is designed for a wider audience than professional philosophers. Nonetheless, there much that is new and of interest to philosophers in Is There a God? For example, there is a discussion of Stephen Hawking's cosmology, some new ideas in the philosophy of mind, and a new way of formulating the argument that theism is a simpler explanation of the universe than is materialism.

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