Newton's Third Rule and the Experimental Argument for Universal Gravity

ABSTRACT This book provides a reading of Newton’s argument for universal gravity that is focused on the evidence-based, "experimental" reasoning that Newton associates with his program of experimental philosophy. It highlights the richness and complexity of the Principia and also draws important lessons about how to situate Newton in his natural philosophical context. The book has two prima…

Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences

ABSTRACT This volume contends that Evidential Pluralism—an account of the epistemology of causation, which maintains that in order to establish a causal claim one needs to establish the existence of a correlation and the existence of a mechanism—can be fruitfully applied to the social sciences. Through case studies in sociology, economics, political science and law, it advances new philoso…

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Human-Nature Interactions

This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in face of ongoing socio-environmental changes. Conceptual and empirical approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies have been used to highlight the imp…

Targeting in international law : counterinsurgency and the legal materiality …

Buku ini membahas tentang bagaimana pembedaan dibuat antara warga sipil dan kombatan dalam peperangan modern dan bagaimana prinsip hukum pembedaan bergantung pada sarana teknis yang digunakan kombatan untuk membuat diri mereka tampak berbeda dari warga sipil. Penulis menunjukkan bahwa teknologi visualisasi selalu menjadi bagian dari penerapan prinsip pembedaan, dengan menyatakan bahwa seragam m…

Womanism, literature, and the transformation of the Black community, 1965-1980

This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, and Paule Marshall fictionalized the black communit…

Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people’s sexual lives, access to citizenship, and struggles for livelihood. Despite the industry’s persistent insis…

Jacques Derrida: law as absolute hospitality

Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality　presents a comprehensive account and understanding of Derrida’s approach to law and justice. Through a detailed reading of Derrida’s texts, Jacques de Ville contends that it is only by way of Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence, and specifically in relation to the texts of Husserl, Levinas, Freud and Heidegger - that the rea…

Religious motivation and the origins of Buddhism: a social-psychological expl…

Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addresses the more general and theoretically controversial question of how world religions come into b…

Governing the Sustainable Development Goals

This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and implem…