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There has been much philosophical interest in the role of luck in ethics and epistemology; now this volume brings the topic to the fore in philosophy of language. Eleven new essays explore the diversity, scope, and mode of operation of luck-reducing mechanisms in language, without which linguistic communication would be impossible.

Markus Kohl presents a new interpretation and rational reconstruction of Kant's doctrine of freedom. He shows how Kant defends the belief that we are free from both natural and super-natural causes as a presupposition of all meaningful human activity. And Kohl explores the role of freedom in Kant's accounts of morality, cognition, and aesthetics.

The early twentieth century saw a radical redrawing of Britain's social and political map as its hereditary aristocracy was pushed from the centre to the margins of the nation's affairs. This book traces the literary consequences of the modernist preoccupation with aristocracy that this social change inspired.

This book teaches psychotherapists how to help their clients make better discoveries in every therapy session. Each chapter illustrates the 4-Stage Model of Socratic Dialogue and other guided discovery approaches. Guidelines are highlighted to help therapists avoid traps that frequently derail progress, as well as strategies for navigating them.

This volume offers a study of when and why contested international norms decline. It includes four contemporary case studies (the torture prohibition, the responsibility to protect, the duty to prosecute institutionalized in the ICC, and commercial whaling) and two historical case studies (privateering and the transatlantic slave trade).

By interrogating how international criminal tribunals relate to their domestic counterparts through the principle of complementarity, International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability advocates for improved institutional design and less deference toward states to strengthen the enforcement of international criminal law.

The Idea of Freedom brings historians of Kant's philosophy into conversation with contemporary metaphysicians and ethicists with the aim of representing the current state of scholarship on Kant's and Kantian accounts of freedom, while at the same time opening new avenues of exploration

Ebenezer Howard founded the Garden City movement, and he continues to be cited by planners and theorists. Ebenezer Howard: Inventor of the Garden City is a properly contextualized analysis of Howard's religious views. It investigates neglected aspects of his life, and provides a significant new interpretation of the Garden City movement.

This volume gathers a selection of Edward Thomas's critical writings on poetry from the period 1899 to 1907.

Develops a critical theory of postnational constitutionalism at a time when the project of integrating Europe's peoples through the rule of law is faltering. Spanning many bodies of EU jurisprudence, Linden-Retek devotes specific attention to migration and asylum-struggles where questions of solidarity and belonging are most acute.

Novel Environments: Science, Description, and Victorian Fiction examines how description in the Victorian novel helped to shape our modern understanding of the environment.

Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the blank or empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally.

Drawing on the expertise of more than 40 international contributors and covering literature, fine art, architecture, religion, politics, and social change, this Handbook examines the pervasive Victorian obsession with the culture of the Middle Ages.

The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a rich, imaginative and also accessible guide to the latest research in one of the most exciting areas of early modern studies.

The book investigates the trends in earnings inequalities in developing countries to determine the main drivers.

A practitioner's perspective on how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies could change the role of nuclear weapons in international relations. Geist argues that artificial intelligence could make a huge impact on deterrence and strategic stability even if it does not render retaliatory forces vulnerable.

Kathrin Koslicki presents a contemporary defence of the Aristotelian doctrine of hylomorphism, according to which there is more to an object than its material parts. She argues that in addition, each object also contains an organizational principle, a form, which accounts for its structure, identity, and unity.

This volume presents the text of a newly discovered manusript draft of Descartes's Regulae alongside the 1701 text, with full English translations of both versions. The draft manuscript sheds important light on the composition, date, and philosophical content of this profoundly original work.

Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the rent, eating almost nothing, and engaging spasmodically and manically with landladies, eccentric elderly men, policemen, shopkeepers, pawnbrokers, and others on the way.

This book provides a detailed description of Icelandic nominalizations, processes through which verbs are turned into nouns. Jim Wood shows that the analysis of these constructions has broad implications for our understanding of argument structure and the syntax-semantics interface.

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland. It explores the historical background and structural features of Irish English, alongside sociolinguistic considerations, and will be of interest to readers in fields of varieties of English, Irish studies, and sociolinguistics.