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How does perception give us access to external reality? This book critically engages with John Mc Dowell s conceptualist answer to this question, by offering a new exploration of his views on …

Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements demonstrates that, while religion is often a social force that maintains, if not legitimates, the sociopolitical order, it is also a decisive …

Bringing together diverse theoretical and empirical contributions from the fields of social and cognitive psychology, philosophy and science education, this volume explores representational pluralism …

This book applies the general theory of critical rationalism in order to develop a new sociology of the open society, in general, and a new analysis of the transition from a closed society to an open …

This book investigates how political actors – and more particularly members of parliaments – have reacted to Brexit to assess its long-term consequences. Brexit has not only been a major disruption …

In Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective, a group of leading scholars come together in a multidisciplinary collection to assess multiculturalism through an international …

Moral certainty refers to those aspects of morality moral acting, feeling, and thinking that are beyond doubt, explanation, and justification. The essays in this book explore the concept of moral …

This book examines the interplay between rural places and the competing narratives of globalization and nationalism. Through case studies from Croatia, Belgium, Australia, the USA, Argentina, …

This volume features 19 original chapters on Adam Smith s conception of modernity. The contributions demonstrate the relevance of Smith as the great interpreter of modernity 250 years after the …

Clientelism is a prominent feature of many of the world s democracies and electoral authoritarian regimes. Yet the comparative study of this practice, which involves exchanging personal favours for …