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Haas, Michael. Polity and society: Philosophical underpinnings of social science paradigms. Praeger, 1992.

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Hamilton, Marci A. The historical and philosophical underpinnings of the copyright clause. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, 1999.

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Haas, Michael. Polity and society: Philosophical underpinnings of social science paradigms. Praeger, 1992.

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Sinha, Ajit. Reading Sraffa: The philosophical underpinnings of production of commodities by means of commodities. Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, 2002.

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Polity and Society: Philosophical Underpinnings of Social Science Paradigms. Praeger Publishers, 1991.

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Tam, Nicholas. Scandinavian Design and its Philosophical Underpinnings to a Social Democracy. Lulu.com, 2016.

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Ventress, Daniel. Existence of God: The Coherence of Theism and the Philosophical Underpinnings of Rational Belief. Independently Published, 2016.

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Department of Defense. Spiritual Dormancy: The Strategic Effect of the Depravation of God - Army Chaplains, Philosophical, Theological and Religious Underpinnings, Spiritual Conflict, Keeping Religion in the Military. Independently Published, 2017.

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Barnard, Robert, Joseph Ulatowski, Jonathan M. Weinberg, and Bradley Armour-Garb. Thinking about the Liar, Fast and Slow. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199896042.003.0003.

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In the past, experimental philosophers have explored the psychological underpinning of a number of notions in philosophy, including free will, moral responsibility, and more. But prior to this chapter, although a number of philosophers have speculated on how ordinary folks might, or should, think about the liar paradox, no one had systematically explored the psychological underpinnings of the Liar itself. The authors take on this task. In particular, the chapter investigates the status of a liar sentence, L = ‘Sentence L is false’. The thesis, arrived at by interpreting the data the authors ha

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Shuster, Martin. Philosophy and Genocide. Edited by Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232116.013.0012.

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This article poses genocide as a philosophical problem, reviewing some of the ways philosophers have addressed genocide and then, by using the work of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, suggests an alternative way in which they can proceed further. First, it raises the question as to why philosophers have been prone to not discussing genocide. Answering this question goes a long way in helping to understand what philosophy can and cannot do in analysing genocide. Genocide re-enters the philosophical frame as a distinctly modern, but nonetheless ultimately human possibility — one that has a

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Gann, Kyle. Hawthorne and The Celestial Railroad. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040856.003.0007.

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Ives based his “Hawthorne” movement on various stiroes of Hawthorne’s, and one novel – The House of the Seven Gables – that he names, though with only a few hints of what musical passages link to what stories. Two other Ives pieces, the subsequent “The Celestial Railroad” (based on an eponymous Hawthorne story, a satire of John Bunyan’s Pilgrims’ Progress) and the scherzo of the Fourth Symphony, share material with the “Hawthorne” movement, and the parallels say much about the Concord Sonata’s philosophical underpinnings.

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Paryż, Marek, ed. Annie Proulx. University of Warsaw Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323547983.

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The philosophical underpinnings and existential implications of Annie Proulx’s fiction situate it in the tradition of literary naturalism. The writer portrays characters from the lower social classes, people who are unable to overcome the impasse in which they have found themselves. Far from idyllic sentiments, Proulx’s approach to the experience of place connects her to the writers associated with so-called new regionalism. She shows the degrading influence of the life amidst beautiful natural surroundings on individual human psyche. Proulx looks closely at the processes of the commodificatio

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Zamir, Tzachi, ed. Shakespeare's Hamlet. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190698515.001.0001.

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Hamlet has long been recognized as concerned with fundamental philosophical issues about identity, responsibility, intimacy, mourning, and agency. How is the play’s address to these issues structured by its distinctively powerful literary-dramatic form and language? What might philosophy have to learn from its mode of address? Is such learning affected by Hamlet being not merely literature, but literature designed to be embodied and voiced on a stage? And what light, in turn, might attention to philosophical themes cast on the play’s development and interest, in other words, does literary crit

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Burnham, Karen. Scientific Analysis. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038419.003.0005.

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This chapter addresses the scientific underpinnings of several of Greg Egan's novels. It first considers the “subjective cosmology” of the universes depicted in Quarantine, Permutation City, and Distress, with their attendant quantum mechanical weirdness. Next, it tackles theories about how our own universe works as seen in the novels Diaspora, Schild's Ladder, and Incandescence. Finally, the chapter provides a rough overview of the alternate-world physics shown in the Orthogonal trilogy, with a particular focus on Clockwork Rocket and Eternal Flame, the two volumes published at the time of wr

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Plant, Deborah G. Alice Walker. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400609244.

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This biography explores Alice Walker's life experiences and her lifework in context of her philosophical thought, and celebrates the author's creative genius and heroism. Born in Eatonton, GA, in 1944, a daughter of sharecroppers, Alice Walker has lived a remarkable and courageous life, and she continues to do so as an elder. Taking inspiration from her great-great-great-great grandmother who lived enslaved in the American South and died at age 125, Walker's activism stems from a philosophy that embraces all life and expresses itself through courageous truth-telling, a resolute stand for freed

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Balasubramaniam, R., and M. N. Venkatachalia. I, the Citizen. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501713514.001.0001.

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This book is an attempt to understand citizen development and engagement. It takes the reader through interpretations of development initiatives at the grassroots and what good governance means to ordinary people. The book unravels the power of citizen engagement through the author's experiences of leading civil society campaigns against corruption and towards strengthening democratic participation of people. It also deals with the philosophical underpinnings of public policies, drawing from the author's on-the-ground experience as well as engagement with those in the higher echelons of policy

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Yi, Tae-Jin, Park Eugene Y., and Larsen Kirk W., eds. Peace in the East. Lexington Books, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978725041.

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On October 26, 1909, the Korean patriot An Chunggun assassinated the Japanese statesman Ito Hirobumi in Harbin, China. More than a century later, the ramifications of An’s daring act continue to reverberate across East Asia and beyond. This volume explores the abiding significance of An, his life, and his written work, most notably On Peace in the East (Tongyang p’yonghwaron), from a variety of perspectives, especially historical, legal, literary, philosophical, and political. The ways in which An has been understood and interpreted by contemporaries, by later generations, and by scholars and

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Sikora, Joshua, ed. Critical Companion to Terrence Malick. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666982633.

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From the dust of the Montana plains to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, Terrence Malick’s films have enchanted audiences with transcendent images of nature, humanity, and grace for nearly fifty years. The contributors in this volume explore the profound implications of Malick’s stories, images, processes, and convictions as they offer comprehensive studies of the ten completed films of Terrence Malick. Each chapter takes a reflective and retrospective approach, considering new interpretations and frameworks for understanding Malick's unique creative choices. Drawing from a range of diverse

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Baron, Alan, John Hassard, Fiona Cheetham, and Sudi Sharifi. Researching Ethnographically. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813958.003.0005.

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This chapter discusses the research approach employed in exploring the organization; that is, how the authors went about collecting and analysing the data on the case Hospice. It starts by stating that the authors have adopted an interpretivist rather than a positivist view. It follows the classic work of Berger and Luckmann who, by the title of their best-known work, see reality as ‘socially constructed’. The approach chosen for this research, therefore, allows the authors to explore something of this intersubjective world within a wider reflexive interpretation of the organizational culture

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Nagarajan, Vijaya. Beginnings. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195170825.003.0001.

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Before dawn each day, millions of Hindu women in Tamil Nadu, India, create a kōlam, a sacred ritual art form, on the thresholds of homes, temples, and businesses. It is usually made of rice flour and therefore is ephemeral. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic research, the author seeks to understand the wide range of meanings attributed to the kōlam, such as beauty; auspiciousness; the god Ganesha; the goddesses Lakshmi, Mūdevi, and Bhūdevi; the evil eye; competition; designs; mathematics; ecology; and the idea of “feeding a thousand souls.” This chapter (along with Chapters 2 and 3) lays th

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Heikkurinen, Pasi, and Toni Ruuska, eds. Sustainability Beyond Technology. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198864929.001.0001.

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Current debates on sustainability are largely building on a problematic assumption that increasing technology use and advancement are a desired phenomenon, creating positive change in human organizations. This kind of techno-optimism prevails particularly in the discourses of ecological modernization and green growth, as well as in the attempts to design sustainable modes of production and consumption within growth-driven capitalism. This transdisciplinary book investigates the philosophical underpinnings of technology, presents a culturally sensitive critique of technology, and outlines feasi

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Velupillai, K. Vela. The Epistemology of Simulation, Computation, and Dynamics in Economics. Edited by Shu-Heng Chen, Mak Kaboudan, and Ye-Rong Du. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199844371.013.46.

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In this chapter the spirit of William Petty is the driving force, but it is given new theoret- ical foundations, mainly as a result of developments in the mathematic underpinnings of the tremendous developments in the potentials of computing, especially using digital technology. Computation and simulation have always played a role in economics, whether it be pure economic theory or any variant of applied economics. This tradition can be traced to the vision of Petty, the founding father of political economy as political arithmetic. A running theme is that, increasingly, the development of econ

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Irvine, Craig, and Danielle Spencer. Dualism and Its Discontents I: Philosophy, Literature, and Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199360192.003.0004.

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Part I of II: Beginning with several literary and nonfiction patient accounts elaborating alienating healthcare experiences, this chapter offers a brief overview of 20th-century attitudes and movements informing medical pedagogy and practice in the U.S., citing such figures as Abraham Flexner, Francis Peabody, Eric Cassell and others. Seeking an understanding of the dissociative underpinnings of medical practice, the chapter turns to the Western philosophical lineage, with particular emphasis on mind–body dualism. Beginning with Plato, key passages in The Republic and The Symposium are examine

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Dickenson, Donna. The Common Good. Edited by Roger Brownsword, Eloise Scotford, and Karen Yeung. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199680832.013.75.

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In conventional thinking, the promise of scientific progress gives automatic and unquestioned legitimacy to any new development in biotechnology. It is the nearest thing we have in a morally relativistic society to the concept of the common good. This chapter begins by examining a recent case study, so-called ‘mitochondrial transfer’ or three-person IVF, in which policymakers appeared to accept that this new technology should be effectively deregulated because that would serve UK national scientific progress and the national interest, despite serious unanswered concerns about its effectiveness

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Datta, Krishna. A Goddess from Bengal. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767022.003.0012.

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Feared as the ruler of snakes, Manasā, a late entrant to the pantheon of Hindu deities, is a fiercely partisan goddess who is vengeful to her adversaries and bountiful to her adherents. Legends of her origin and history vary but her cult has roots in pre-Hindu religious beliefs absorbed through time into the Hindu tradition, though she has remained outside the circle of the major Hindu goddesses and exercises only regional, not pan-Indian, authority. She is worshiped, often by Hindus as well as Muslims, mainly in the more snake-infested regions of India, particularly eastern India and part of

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Oliver, Kelly, Lisa M. Madura, and Sabeen Ahmed, eds. Refugees Now. Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881811259.

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This important new book examines the status of refugees from a philosophical perspective. The contributors explore the conditions faced by refugees and clarify the conceptual, practical, and ethical issues confronting the contemporary global community with respect to refugees. The book takes up topics ranging from practical matters, such as the social and political production of refugees, refugee status and the tension between citizen rights and human rights, and the handling of detention and deportation, to more conceptual and theoretical concerns, such as the ideology, rhetoric, and propagan

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Adam, Smith. Theory of Moral Sentiments: The Ethical, Philosophical and Psychological Underpinning of the Author's Economic Theory. Lulu Press, Inc., 2018.

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Knoll, Gillian. Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428521.001.0001.

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Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare explores the role of the mind in creating erotic experience on the early modern stage. To “conceive” desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of the most elusive experiences. Drawing from cognitive and philosophical approaches, this book advances a new methodology for analysing how early modern plays dramatize inward erotic experience. Grounded in cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare traces the contours

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Cotnoir, A. J., and Achille C. Varzi. Mereology. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749004.001.0001.

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Mereology is the formal theory of parthood relations. Mereological theories—have become a chapter of central interest in metaphysics, but also with applications in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science. This book provides a critical survey and an up-to-date assessment of the main results in this area, with an eye to both their philosophical underpinnings and their formal properties. In doing so, it also aims to investigate the varieties of formal systems currently available. After a brief history of the development of mereology, introdu

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Rodríguez-Gungor, Edwin. Spirit and Method. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567712028.

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Offers a generative and hospitable theological methodology rooted in the distinctives of pentecostal spirituality, enlivened by a Spirited imagination and opened toward critical, constructive, and conciliatory dialogue with the wider Christian tradition. This inter- and cross-disciplinary work is careful yet generous, drawing together of knowledge and wisdom from different domains—historical, philosophical, and theological—in ways recognizably pentecostal and effectively missional. The book begins with a description of the essence of pentecostal spirituality that holds true across the various

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Adam, Smith. The Theory of Moral Sentiments: The Ethical, Philosophical and Psychological Underpinning of the Author's Economic Theory. lulu.com, 2018.

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Millet, Kitty. Kabbalah and Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501359712.

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Focuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish writers to examine the intersection of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, and secular Jewish literatures. Kabbalah and Literature shows how the Jewish mystical tradition contributes to the renewal of literature in a modern, global, and increasingly disconnected age. Kitty Millet explores Kabbalah’s conceptual underpinnings, aesthetic principles, tenets, and signifiers to demonstrate how literature’s absorption of kabbalistic material has altered its ontology, function, and the tasks it sets for itself. Reading writers from Europe and the Americ

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Jahanbegloo, Ramin. Thinking Nonviolence. Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9789356406551.

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This book presents a solid introduction to nonviolence as a mode of thinking and a mode of life, but also as a strategy of self-defence and social and political transformation."Nonviolence" is a frequently misunderstood, frequently abused term. It can be used in very narrow or broad constructs and can be based on a wide variety of philosophies and practices. The book will examine several of the main currents of nonviolent thought and practice, as approaches that concentrate around the concepts of “struggle” and “resistance”. By focusing on these two concepts, the book will examine the theories

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Gides, David M., ed. Uncivil Disobedience. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978718548.

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This book addresses the need for theological reflection on uncivil disobedience. Existing scholarship in theology and politics mostly treats church-state relations theoretically, with studies in non-violent resistance or civil disobedience, or in other ways largely assuming traditional forms of governance and means of protest—all while paying little to no attention to post-modern political philosophies. Recent eruptions of uncivil disobedience, oftentimes involving violence, like we have seen with Antifa, Black Lives Matter protests, the storming of the U.S. Capitol Building, and in the action

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Gold, Andrew S., John C. P. Goldberg, Daniel B. Kelly, Emily Sherwin, and Henry E. Smith, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190919665.001.0001.

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This book discusses developments in scholarship dedicated to reinvigorating the study of the broad domain of private law. This field, which embraces the traditional common law subjects “property, contracts, and torts” as well as adjacent, more statutory areas, such as intellectual property and commercial law, also includes important subjects that have been neglected in the United States but are beginning to make a comeback. The book particularly focuses on the New Private Law, an approach that aims to bring a new outlook to the study of private law by moving beyond reductively instrumentalist

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Stark, Johanna. Law for Sale. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198839491.001.0001.

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The book focuses on the philosophical underpinnings, problems, and consequences of regulatory competition. The term ‘regulatory competition’ describes a dynamic in which states as producers of legal rules compete for the favour of mobile consumers of their legal products. Besides discussing regulatory competition, a factual phenomenon, identifying the structural conditions for law markets to occur and referring to particular fields of law where competitive dynamics among legislators can be observed, arguments critical of regulatory competition as a policy approach are presented from the perspe

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Ayyar, R. V. Vaidyanatha. Reform Impulses in a Bipolar Government. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199474943.003.0015.

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This chapter describes the far reaching changes as a result of which the Indian education system ceased to be almost exclusively public funded and closed system, how these far reaching changes were not steered by any policy of the Government, and how the policy has to catch up to do. It describes how the early initiatives of the Manmohan Government aroused great hopes that higher education was poised for remarkable transformation, and how these hopes were dashed as the Prime Minister was only a minor centre of power and could not prevail upon Arjun Singh to accept the ambitious reform agenda d

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Chen, Melvin. Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350414204.

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Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic merit and the role of perception. What each chapter offers is a wealth of examples from Asia: Sonny Liew’s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, Tan Tai Yong, Kueh Appreciation Day, dragon kiln pottery, the Nanyang style of painting and the Chinese ink tradition. Selected for their boldness and open-endedness, these artworks include graphic comics and classical art forms. They deal with controversies and address central questions including: -When are artw

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White, Marlaine. Intellectual Property Regulation under International Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.221.

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The creation of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPs) in the mid-1990s altered the regulation of intellectual property under international law. Prior to the TRIPs Agreement, intellectual property regulation consisted of a patchwork of international treaties and conventions coordinating reciprocal national treatment of signatory states’ domestic intellectual property protection. Generally, those agreements strove for minimum standards of protection, but left levels and types of protection to member states’ national discretion. TRIPs’s strict uniformity repr

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Crès, Hervé, and Mich Tvede. Democracy, the Market, and the Firm. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192894731.001.0001.

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This book is an attempt to resolve an enigma that has puzzled social scientists since Condorcet in the eighteenth century: Why are collective choices so stable and easy to make in practice, when in theory it should be totally otherwise? A striking illustration of this enigma is the almost unanimous support of shareholders in publicly traded companies for the motions tabled by directors. The first part of the book explores the interplay between the voting and trading mechanisms. Two main arguments are proposed: on the one hand, the better the market works, the easier it is for majority voting t

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Khanna, Tarun, and Michael Szonyi, eds. Making Meritocracy. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197602461.001.0001.

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Abstract Meritocracy refers to any social system in which the allocation of opportunities and rewards is determined by merit. This volume draws together contributions that explore efforts to implement meritocracy in the political and educational realm in China and India, both historically and in the present. Contributors explore the philosophical underpinnings of meritocracy in the two societies, historical efforts to implement meritocracy according to culturally specific definitions of merit, contemporary debates about how to overcome obstacles to meritocracy such as the power of inherited pr

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Gillis, David. Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. Liverpool University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764067.001.0001.

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This book demonstrates that the Mishneh torah, Maimonides' code of Jewish law, has the structure of a microcosm. Through this symbolic form, Maimonides presents the law as designed to perfect the individual and society by shaping them in the image of the divinely created cosmic order. The commandments of the law thereby bring human beings closer to fulfilling their ultimate purpose, knowledge of God. This symbolism turns the Mishneh torah into an object of contemplation that itself communicates such knowledge. In short, it is a work of art. The book unpacks the metaphysical and cosmological un

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Dix, Alan, Steve Gill, Devina Ramduny-Ellis, and Jo Hare. TouchIT. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198718581.001.0001.

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Abstract The physical world is increasingly filled with digital products to the extent that the boundaries of digital and physical reality become blurred. From mundane devices such as mobile phones and washing machines, to esoteric research including tangible computation and body implants, we continually bridge two worlds, literally touching buttons and dials and metaphorically touching the bits beyond. The connection between pure thought and abstract information is through solid keyboard and mouse, but likewise the material world of buildings, cars, and running shoes is suffused with computat

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Metzler, Irina. Intellectual Disability in the European Middle Ages. Edited by Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234959.013.4.

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This investigation of intellectual disability in the Middle Ages uncovers narratives of this perceived condition in the historical sources. Authors of normative texts, for instance, medical, legal, and natural-philosophical authorities, were the medieval equivalent of modern scientific experts with regard to defining, assessing, and controlling notions of intellectual disability. This new and specific discussion seeks to reframe the paradigm of what constituted intellectual disability at different periods in both medieval and modern times. Philosophically, and subsequently judicially, medieval

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Spencer-Rodgers, Julie, and Kaiping Peng, eds. The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199348541.001.0001.

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The unprecedented economic growth in many East Asian societies in the few past decades have placed the region center stage, and increasing globalization have made East-West cultural understanding of even greater importance today. This book is the most comprehensive on East Asian cognition and thinking styles to date, and is the first to bring together a large body of empirical research on “naïve dialecticism” (Peng & Nisbett, 1999; Peng, Spencer-Rodgers, & Nian, 2006) and “analytic/holistic thinking” (Nisbett, 2003), theories in cultural psychology that stem from Richard Nisbett’s (200

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Agostini, Evi, Bren Neale, Dawn Lyon, et al. Vignette Research. Edited by Mark Elliot and Jessica Nina Lester. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350299412.

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Vignette research is an innovative qualitative, narrative and phenomenological research methodology that has gained international recognition, sparking interest from a wide range of individuals and institutions in global contexts. Vignettes are concise narratives, which capture human experiences in real life settings. They reveal surprising or intriguing facets and intangible moments. The experiential narratives resonate with readers and reduce the distance between the researcher and the researched. This open access book introduces vignette research to new and experienced researchers by guidin

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Fulford, K. W. M., Lu Duhig, Julie Hankin, Joanna Hicks, and Justine Keeble. Values-Based Assessment in Mental Health. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Werdie (C W. ). van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.18.

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This chapter describes philosophical and empirical work underpinning recent developments in values-based mental health assessment culminating in the 3 Keys to a Shared Approach, a UK-based project co-produced between service users and providers. Three aspects of values-based mental health assessment are described: person-centered, multidisciplinary, or strengths-based assessment. The central role of values in person-centered assessment is shown through the story of a real (biographically disguised) person and the interpretation of his story drawing on diagnostic manuals such as the DSM. Philos

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Corazza, Eros. On the essentiality of thoughts (and reference). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786658.003.0012.

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It is often assumed that experiential reference, in particular the references we make using so-called essential indexicals (I, here, and now), is irreducible to other forms or reference. In focusing on Donnellan’s insights concerning the referential use of definite descriptions and empirical evidence coming from cognitive sciences (in particular Pylyshin’s work on situated vision), Eros Corazza discusses and defends this view. In so doing, he shows how experiential reference rests on a form of egocentric immersion underpinning agent-centered behaviours. It is further argued that our capacity t

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Welch, Cheryl. 21. Tocqueville. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198708926.003.0021.

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This chapter examines Alexis de Tocqueville's social and political thought. Tocqueville is known as a forerunner of systematic social or political theory, but he is more relevant today as a philosophical historian with particular concerns that parallel those of many contemporary political thinkers. Those concerns are: how to sustain the civic practices underpinning liberal democracy, how to create such practices in the face of hostile histories, and how to think about democracy's need for stabilizing beliefs. The chapter considers the first concern through a discussion of some of the principal

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Whitmarsh, Tim. How to Write Anti-Roman History. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190649890.003.0014.

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In this chapter, Tim Whitmarsh reconstructs an example of a type of history writing—accounts with a pronounced anti-Roman bias—that has left only exiguous traces in the extant collection of ancient textual sources. Whitmarsh traces this oppositional history by scrutinizing the several categories of professed opponents whom Dionysius of Halicarnassus ventriloquizes. Whitmarsh tentatively identifies Metrodorus of Scepsis as a likely target of Dionysius’ critiques and then reverse engineers Metrodorus’ arguments, drawing also on criticisms that Plutarch appears to have directed at Metrodorus. Whi

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