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Cognition in the Real World offers a fresh take on cognitive psychology by focusing on everyday behaviours to place our understanding of the mind in a real-world context. Instead of looking at functions in isolation, it explores how different cognitive processes work together when we perform common activities.

This volume explores the usefulness of the notion of fittingness in investigating a range of normative matters. Topics include the nature and epistemology of fittingness, the relation between fittingness and reasons, the normativity of fittingness, fittingness and value theory, and the role of fittingness in theorizing about responsibility.

This volume brings together a selection of eminent philosopher Rosalind Hursthouse's influential essays on Aristotle, virtue ethics, and social philosophy.

(Dis)connected Empires offers a new contribution to the current debate on the role of global history in a world of resurgent nationalisms. Biedermann explores the world of early diplomatic connections between Europe and Asia in the Renaissance, focusing on the rarely told story of Portuguese encounters with the Buddhist kingdoms of Sri Lanka.

Epistemic agency is a crucial concept in many areas of philosophy and cognitive sciences. But what is it? The Tinkering Mind argues that epistemic agency has two distinct, incompatible definitions - intentional mental action, or a distinct non-voluntary form of evaluative agency, both of which lead to surprising, counterintuitive consequences.

Discusses how literary culture in the Renaissance was fundamentally oral and studies a variety of literary soundscapes, from the schoolroom to the printing house, to explore why and how 'sound' was meaningful to Renaissance writers.

This volume critically re-evaluates the received interpretation of the nature of light in the ancient sources. The view that vision had priority over light is rejected in favour of a luminocentric reading of philosophical and theological cosmology in late antiquity.

This volume emphasizes the consequential nature of secondary rules of international law (such as attribution, causality, and the standard and burden of proof) and argues that the outcome of litigation is fundamentally shaped by the exact standard of proof, standard of review, or attribution basis that is chosen by adjudicators.

This volume is the first dedicated English commentary on the eighth and final book of Valerius Flaccus' Flavian epic Argonautica. The commentary addresses questions of the original length of the poem, of intertextuality, and of poetic practices in late first-century CE Rome.

An in-depth comparative analysis of the family novel as it developed as a genre in Russia and England during the course of the nineteenth century.

Examines Christian revelation in the context of ancient, medieval, and modern traditions and in conversation with other religious traditions.

The Property Law LPC manual combines accessible overviews of the conveyancing procedure with a pragmatic approach. Enhanced by realistic case studies, examples, and professional conduct points throughout, this text equips the reader with the knowledge and skills required to conduct conveyancing transactions in practice.

Translated from the latest Armenian edition of the text (2003), this is a scholarly edition with an introduction, facing-page English translation, and commentary. The Life of the Mashtots' praises for the inventor of the Armenian alphabet and progenitor of Armenian literacy that began with the translation of the Bible.

This is the story of how Norwegian company Nyegaard & Co. achieved international success in pharmaceuticals with a breakthrough product facilitating X-ray pictures of the soft tissues of the body. It is a story of both of personal initiatives and great organizational transformations: the corporation as entrepreneur.

Tito Magri proposes a new, systematic interpretation of David Hume's account of the imagination in his Treatise of Human Nature. This has revisionary implications for the understanding of Hume's philosophy, particularly his philosophy of mind, naturalism, epistemology, and stance to scepticism.

This book argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction, not only through the traditional concept of surveillance (top-down), but also the tactics of sousveillance (watching from below).

With chapters that actively manifest the doing, reading, and writing of process research, this book takes up the challenge that process philosophy and process ontology pose to conventional, entity-based empirical research, even daring to question the relevance of 'methodology' in contemporary process organization studies.

This book brings to the fore the different dimensions of the deprivation of human capabilities and the intricate relationship between food security and economy, ecology, and state policy within the Indian state of Punjab.

A new edition that offers detailed consideration of the role of the Master of the Revels in English Renaissance entertainments and the relationship between the politics of the court and English theatre.

Italy's recent economic decline presents many lessons on the importance of meritocracy for economic growth. Connections, rather than merit, are a long-standing feature of the Italian elites. This book uses international comparisons on social capital, governance, education, corporate standards, and more to evaluate Italy's economic performance.

Since the beginning of the World Health Organization, many of its staff members, regional offices, member states, and directors-general have grappled with the question of what a 'spiritual dimension' of health looks like, and how it might enrich the health policies advocated by their organisations. This study seeks to understand and elucidate this.

This book analyses Zonaras' twelfth-century chronicle as both a literary composition and a historical account, concentrating on its composition, sources, and political, ideological, and literary background. Kampianaki aims to present it as a work which seamlessly merges the traditions of chronicle writing and classicizing historiography.

Harmony Siganporia retraces the route of Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March, in reverse by walking this route of just under four hundred kilometres under twenty-five days much as Gandhi and the original band of marchers had done in 1930.

Since the seventeenth century, the idea that there are 'laws' of nature that govern our world has been attended by controversy. Walter Ott traces the fortunes of three prominent positions on the matter, from their origins to the present day, and attempts to settle the rules of the debate along the way.