Publications
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Introduction to General Relativity, Black Holes and Cosmology
(2023)
This book presents basic General Relativity and provides a basis for understanding and using the fundamental theory. General Relativity is a beautiful geometric theory, simple in its mathematical formulation. It leads to ...
Social Dimensions of Moral Responsibility
(2018)
Philosophical theorizing about moral responsibility has recently taken a “social” turn, marking a shift in focus from traditional metaphysical concerns about free will and determinism. Yet despite this social turn, the ...
The Roots of Verbal Meaning
(2020)
This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the meanings of verbs. It adopts the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly of an event structure, made up of an event ...
Confronting Colonial Objects
(2023)
In 1978, UNESCO Secretary General Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow compared cultural colonial objects to ‘witnesses to history’. Their treatment is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a novel international cultural ...
Global Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion
(2024)
The philosophy of religion is a discipline that explores a wide range of issues related to religious beliefs and practices. However, the field has historically exhibited a narrow focus, predominantly centring on the Christian ...
The European Court of Justice and the Policy Process
(2018)
The European Court of Justice is one of the most important actors in the process of European integration. Political science still struggles to understand its significance, with recent scholarship emphasizing how closely ...
China-Africa and an Economic Transformation
(2019)
Progress in Africa’s economic growth in the new millennium has been uneven across countries, and has not translated into structural transformation. The same can be said about the evolving China–Africa economic relations. ...
The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England
(2025)
It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others. But there is no consensus as to which sorts. Loosely-bound books, deluxe ...
How to Achieve Inclusive Growth
(2021)
Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining social mobility, economic fragility, unbalanced growth due to technology and globalization, and existential ...
What Is Structural Injustice?
(2024)
What is Structural Injustice? is the first edited collection to bring together the voices of leading structural injustice scholars from politics, philosophy and law to explore the concept of structural injustice which has ...