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Metaphysical Realism and Anti-realism (2022)
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Minimally, metaphysical realists hold that there exist some mind-independent entities. Metaphysical realists also (tend) to hold that we can speak meaningfully or truthfully about mind-independent entities. Those that reject metaphysical realism deny... Read More about Metaphysical Realism and Anti-realism.

Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine: Creating, Enhancing and Extending Human Life (2023)
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Worldview Religious Studies (2022)
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Philosophy of Epidemiology (2013)
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Neoliberal Religion: Faith and Power in the Twenty-First Century (2022)
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This book explores neoliberalism as an account of contemporary society and considers what this means for our understanding of religion. Neoliberalism is a perspective grounded in free market economics and distinguished by a celebration of competition... Read More about Neoliberal Religion: Faith and Power in the Twenty-First Century.

Victoria Welby (2023)
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In 1880s Britain, Victoria Welby (1837–1912) began creating a rich, wide-ranging metaphysical system. At its heart lies Motion, 'the great fact, the supreme category'. Drawing extensively on archive materials, this Element offers the first study of W... Read More about Victoria Welby.

Identifying Future-Proof Science (2022)
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First book to directly engage with the question of how to identify future-proof science Takes a transdisciplinary approach in its combination of historical, philosophical, and sociological methods Offers a companion to Alexander Bird's Knowing Scienc... Read More about Identifying Future-Proof Science.

A Short History of British Medical Ethics (2021)
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From class to identity: The politics of education reforms in former Yugoslavia (2014)
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Medical Law and Ethics (2020)
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How Stereotypes Deceive Us (2021)
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Stereotypes sometimes lead us to make poor judgements of other people, but they also have the potential to facilitate quick, efficient, and accurate judgements. How can we discern whether any individual act of stereotyping will have the positive or n... Read More about How Stereotypes Deceive Us.

The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity (2022)
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Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period (2020)
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Measuring difference, numbering normal provides a detailed study of the technological construction of disability by examining how the audiometer and spirometer were used to create numerical proxies for invisible and inarticulable experiences. Measure... Read More about Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period.

The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad. (2020)
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Islam on Campus: Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain (2020)
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The Sole Fact of Pure Reason: Kant’s Quasi-Ontological Argument for the Categorical Imperative (2020)
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Class after Industry (2018)
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A Philosopher Looks at Science (2022)
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Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (2019)
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Nature the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better. The 2017 Carus Lectures (2019)
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How fixed are the happenings in Nature and how are they fixed? These lectures address what our scientific successes at predicting and manipulating the world around us suggest in answer. One--very orthodox--account teaches that the sciences offer gene... Read More about Nature the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better. The 2017 Carus Lectures.