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Do you know what knowledge is? Before you reply, ponder for a moment the Gettier problem. It’s a puzzle. It’s a challenge. It was a moment; now it’s a tradition. It’s a centrepiece of contemporary...
In the ‘International Atlas of AIDS’, the last AIDS atlas to be written and published in 2008, the editors decided to include a chapter on the ‘social repercussions’ of AIDS. Photographs of ACT...
The authors of Texts and Violence in the Roman World explain why ancient history is still quite relevant in today's current climate.
In October 2018 ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain’ ran a debate entitled ‘Do People Hate Vegans?’. In November the vegan activist group Direct Action Everywhere staged a protest at a Brighton steakhouse,...
Thermodynamics is a theory which establishes the relationship between the physical quantities that characterise the macroscopic properties of a system. In our book, Principles of Thermodynamics, thermodynamics...
Einstein once remarked, “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Expressions like these are increasingly common. Saturated with social media and soundbites, many lament modern life’s flood...
Can you really be famous for explaining someone else’s ideas? Speaking as a historian of philosophy I can tell you the answer is: not really. But one man who just about managed it was Ibn Rushd, often...
When browsing through the pages of the handbook or stumbling across an abstract on the book online, one might wonder why we decided to write and organize this volume at this time. The answer is pretty simple. It is needed!
Immigration is, needless to say, a very hot topic in today’s charged political climate. Still, little attention has been paid in the popular press to immigration of highly educated technological professionals....
by Tiberiu Harko, author of Extensions of f(R) Gravity, 2018
There is an ongoing crisis in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding the relations between Russia and Strasbourg. In 2015, The Russian Constitutional Court decided that the implementation...