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Non-Identity Theodicy
(2020)
This book develops Non-Identity Theodicy as an original response to the problem of evil. It begins by recognizing that horrendous evils pose distinctive challenges for belief in God. To home in on these challenges, this ...
The Rules of Rescue
(2023)
This is a book about duties to help others. When does one have to sacrifice life and limb, time and money, to prevent harm to others? When must one save more people rather than fewer? These questions arise in emergencies ...
Chapter Article 12 CRPD
(2018)
CRPD; persons with disabilities; law
Chapter 7 Socializing Responsibility
(2018)
There is a near universal consensus that the bearers of moral responsibility are the individuals we identify with proper names. I suggest that if we take the exercise of agency as a guide to the identification of agents, ...
Non-Identity Theodicy
(2020)
This book develops Non-Identity Theodicy as an original response to the problem of evil. It begins by recognizing that horrendous evils pose distinctive challenges for belief in God. To home in on these challenges, this ...
Sick Note
(2022)
Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, ‘who is really sick?’ Tracing medical certification for absence from work from 1948 to 2010, it shows that doctors, employers, employees, politicians, media commentators, ...
Chapter 10 Censuses and mapping
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Discovery of Hidden Crime
(2011)
This book presents a history of the self-report crime survey as a method of criminological inquiry, describing how it was born within a distinct moral framework by pioneers out to show that crime was very prevalent and, ...
Sick Note
(2022)
Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, ‘who is really sick?’ Tracing medical certification for absence from work from 1948 to 2010, it shows that doctors, employers, employees, politicians, media commentators, ...
Everything Flows
(2018)
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 ...
Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces
(2023)
Languages are central to the creation and expression of identities and cultures, as well as to life itself, yet the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman West is remarkably ...
Chapter 7 Socializing Responsibility
(2018)
There is a near universal consensus that the bearers of moral responsibility are the individuals we identify with proper names. I suggest that if we take the exercise of agency as a guide to the identification of agents, ...
Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces
(2023)
Languages are central to the creation and expression of identities and cultures, as well as to life itself, yet the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman West is remarkably ...
The Rules of Rescue
(2023)
This is a book about duties to help others. When does one have to sacrifice life and limb, time and money, to prevent harm to others? When must one save more people rather than fewer? These questions arise in emergencies ...
Everything Flows
(2018)
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 ...
Vulnerability and the Politics of Care
(2021)
Vulnerability is a fundamental aspect of existence, giving rise to the need for care in various forms. Yet we are not all vulnerable in the same way, and not all vulnerabilities are equally recognised or cared for. This ...
Chapter Preface to the third edition
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Framing Refugee
(2024)
Across the world, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes has more than doubled during the last decade. Although international law does not allow states to turn back refugees, some countries close their ...
Framing Refugee
(2024)
Across the world, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes has more than doubled during the last decade. Although international law does not allow states to turn back refugees, some countries close their ...
Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalization
(2019)
Extraterritorial jurisdiction stands at the juncture of international law and animal law and promises to open a path to understanding and resolving the global problems that challenge the core of animal law. As corporations ...
Prosody in Medieval English and Norse
(2023)
This book reconstructs aspects of linguistic prosody from the medieval records of two closely related Germanic languages, English and Norse. Evidence is drawn from a series of case studaqqqqqzies on vowel reductions and ...
The Baptized Muse
(2017)
With the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, increasing numbers of educated people converted to this new belief. As Christianity did not have its own educational institutions, the issue of how to harmonize pagan ...
Chapter 8 AI in Medicine
(2021)
AI promises major benefits for healthcare. But along with the benefits come risks. Not so much the risk of powerful super-intelligent machines taking over, but the risk of structural injustices, biases, and inequalities ...
Chapter 8 AI in Medicine
(2021)
AI promises major benefits for healthcare. But along with the benefits come risks. Not so much the risk of powerful super-intelligent machines taking over, but the risk of structural injustices, biases, and inequalities ...
Chapter 6 Ethical considerations
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Social Democratic America
(2014)
America is the one of the wealthiest nations on earth. So why do so many Americans struggle to make ends meet? Why is it so difficult for those who start at the bottom to reach the middle class? And why, if a rising economic ...
Widows Under Hindu Law
(2023)
This book comprises the first exhaustive history of the treatment and status of widows under classical Hindu law or Dharmaśāstra, as it is called in Sanskrit. As such, this book is intended both to contribute to our ...
Chapter 12 Outcome measures and case definition
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities across Europe
(2022)
There is a broad consensus across European states and the EU that social and economic inequality is a problem that needs to be addressed. Yet inequality policy is notoriously complex and contested. This book approaches the ...
European Law and New Health Technologies
(2013)
Health is a matter of fundamental importance in European societies, both as a human right in itself, and as a factor in a productive workforce and therefore a healthy economy. New health technologies promise improved quality ...
Chapter 12 Outcome measures and case definition
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Prosody in Medieval English and Norse
(2023)
This book reconstructs aspects of linguistic prosody from the medieval records of two closely related Germanic languages, English and Norse. Evidence is drawn from a series of case studaqqqqqzies on vowel reductions and ...
Chapter 8 Preparing grant applications
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Chapter 8 Preparing grant applications
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain
(2012)
The relationship between men and the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has, until now, been obscure. The Little Republic rescues the engagement of men with the house from this obscurity, better equipping historians ...
The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain
(2012)
The relationship between men and the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has, until now, been obscure. The Little Republic rescues the engagement of men with the house from this obscurity, better equipping historians ...
Conceiving People
(2021)
Each year, tens of thousands of children are conceived with donated sperm or eggs, aka donated gametes. By some estimates, there are over 1 million donor-conceived people in the United States and, of course, many more the ...
Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite
(2012)
This book argues that the pseudonym, Dionysius the Areopagite, and the influence of Paul together constitute the best interpretive lens for understanding the Corpus Dionysiacum [CD]. This book demonstrates how Paul in fact ...
The Baptized Muse
(2017)
With the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, increasing numbers of educated people converted to this new belief. As Christianity did not have its own educational institutions, the issue of how to harmonize pagan ...
Towards Gender Equity in Development
(2019)
As a result of widespread mistreatment and overt discrimination in all dimensions of their lives, women lack significant autonomy. The central preoccupation of this book is to explore key sources of female empowerment and ...
The Many Paths of Change in International Law
(2023)
How does international law change? How does it adapt to meet global challenges in an accelerated social and political context? The question is crucial for any account of international law, but it is not very well understood. ...
Chapter 19 Intervention costing and economic analysis
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
The Many Paths of Change in International Law
(2023)
How does international law change? How does it adapt to meet global challenges in an accelerated social and political context? The question is crucial for any account of international law, but it is not very well understood. ...
Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite
(2012)
This book argues that the pseudonym, Dionysius the Areopagite, and the influence of Paul together constitute the best interpretive lens for understanding the Corpus Dionysiacum [CD]. This book demonstrates how Paul in fact ...
The Typological Diversity of Morphomes
(2023)
This book constitutes the first typologically oriented monograph on morphomes, which is the term given to systematic morphological identities, usually within inflectional paradigms, that do not map onto syntactic or semantic ...
Chapter Agentive Phenomenology
(2020)
This chapter reflects on questions about the nature and sources of agentive phenomenology—that is, the set of those experience-types associated with exercises of agency, and paradigmatically with intentional actions. The ...
The Sources of Innovation
(1988)
This seminal book has become essential reading for students taking courses in technology management and innovation, and for managers who are responsible for strategic planning. The author shows how the initiative to innovate ...
The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton
(2024)
The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm play a vital role in early modern England’s religious and cultural systems that in turn informs the period’s poetic and ...
Pandemic Ethics
(2023)
Pandemic ethics raises unresolved, fundamental, and controversial questions. The defining feature of a pandemic is its scale—the simultaneous threat to millions or even billions of lives. That scale creates and necessitates ...
Bulk Collection
(2017)
In June 2013, Edward Snowden revealed a secret US government program that collected records on every phone call made in the country. Further disclosures followed, detailing mass surveillance by the UK as well. Journalists ...
Chapter 9 When Inner Speech Misleads
(2018)
This chapter examines whether and when the experience of inner speech can be inaccurate and thereby mislead the subject. It presents a view about the representational content of speech experience generally and then applies ...
Chapter 23 Reporting and using trial results
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Particle Physics in the LHC era
(2016)
This book gives a modern introduction to particle physics. The main mathematical tools required for the rest of the book are developed in Chapter 2. A quantitative introduction to accelerator physics is presented in Chapter ...
Vulnerability and the Politics of Care
(2021)
Vulnerability is a fundamental aspect of existence, giving rise to the need for care in various forms. Yet we are not all vulnerable in the same way, and not all vulnerabilities are equally recognised or cared for. This ...
Particle Physics in the LHC era
(2016)
This book gives a modern introduction to particle physics. The main mathematical tools required for the rest of the book are developed in Chapter 2. A quantitative introduction to accelerator physics is presented in Chapter ...
Chapter 13 Preliminary studies and pilot testing
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Big Science, Innovation, and Societal Contributions
(2024)
Big Science leads to breakthrough scientific knowledge and innovation through large-scale multinational scientific infrastructure investments, expanding the boundaries of science, technology, and innovation. This book ...
Social Democratic Capitalism
(2019)
What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing? The historical and comparative evidence suggests that the answer is social democratic capitalism — a democratic political system, a ...
The Leap of Faith
(2018)
This is the first book to compare the history of tax compliance in several countries (Sweden, Britain, Italy, Romania, and the United States).
The book clearly elaborates the policy lessons from the five cases explored ...
The Leap of Faith
(2018)
This is the first book to compare the history of tax compliance in several countries (Sweden, Britain, Italy, Romania, and the United States).
The book clearly elaborates the policy lessons from the five cases explored ...
Social Democratic Capitalism
(2019)
What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing? The historical and comparative evidence suggests that the answer is social democratic capitalism — a democratic political system, a ...
Chapter Introduction
(2013)
When the war was over in 1945, Germany was a country with no government, little functioning infrastructure, millions of refugees and homeless people, and huge foreign armies living largely off the land. Large parts of the ...
Indefinite Pronouns
(1997)
Most of the world's languages have indefinite pronouns, that is, expressions such as someone, anything, and nowhere. This book presents an encyclopaedic investigation of indefinite pronouns in the languages of the world, ...
Indefinite Pronouns
(1997)
Most of the world's languages have indefinite pronouns, that is, expressions such as someone, anything, and nowhere. This book presents an encyclopaedic investigation of indefinite pronouns in the languages of the world, ...
Chapter 11 Watchful Waiting
(2021)
This paper opens up the relationship between vulnerability and the temporalities of care. It takes ‘care’ as not just
a material practice that supports, manages and sustains vulnerable bodies, but as a temporal practice, ...
Chapter 15 Social and behavioural research
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Chapter 15 Social and behavioural research
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Governing Extractive Industries
(2018)
Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs. This book synthesizes ...
Conceiving People
(2021)
Each year, tens of thousands of children are conceived with donated sperm or eggs, aka donated gametes. By some estimates, there are over 1 million donor-conceived people in the United States and, of course, many more the ...
Chapter 3 Reviewing the literature
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Chapter 3 Reviewing the literature
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Undocumented Saints
(2022)
UnDocumented Saints follows the migration of popular saints from Mexico into the United States and the evolution in their meaning. The book explores how Latinx battles for survival are also performed in the worlds of faith, ...
Undocumented Saints
(2022)
UnDocumented Saints follows the migration of popular saints from Mexico into the United States and the evolution in their meaning. The book explores how Latinx battles for survival are also performed in the worlds of faith, ...
Chapter 1 Introduction to field trials of health interventions
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Political Settlements and Development
(2022)
Few concepts have captured the imagination of the conflict and development communities in recent years as powerfully as the idea of a ‘political settlement’. At its most ambitious, ‘political settlements analysis’ (PSA) ...
Chapter 10 Moral Conflict in the Minimally Conscious State
(2016)
In the next section, I sketch a view in which the possession of phenomenal consciousness (henceforth: “consciousness”) is necessary for possession of (positive or negative degrees of) subjective well-being. It would seem ...
Chapter 14 Questionnaires
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...
Inquisitive Semantics
(2018)
There is an age-old tradition in linguistics and philosophy to identify the meaning of a entence with its truth-conditions. This can be explained by the fact that linguistic and philosophical investigations are usually ...
Global Legitimacy Crises
(2022)
This book addresses the consequences of legitimacy in global governance, in particular asking: when and how do legitimacy crises affect international organizations (IOs) and their capacity to rule. The book starts with a ...
Chapter Contributors
(2015)
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures ...