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Free will: An impossible reality or an incoherent concept? (2022)
Journal Article
Leach, S. (2022). Free will: An impossible reality or an incoherent concept?. Human Affairs, 32(4), 413-419. https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2022-0035

The problem that Tallis attempts to address in Freedom: An Impossible Reality (2021) is that science appears to describe the entire world deterministically and that this seems to leave no room for free will. In the face of this threat, Tallis defends... Read More about Free will: An impossible reality or an incoherent concept?.

Introduction a book symposium on Raymond Tallis's Freedom: An impossible reality (2022)
Journal Article
Tartaglia, J. (2022). Introduction a book symposium on Raymond Tallis's Freedom: An impossible reality. Human Affairs, 21, 371–372. https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2022-0030

Democracy and democratisation (2022)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2022). Democracy and democratisation. In Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics (333-346). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100673.00033

Amidst numerous high-profile citizens' assemblies on climate change, the role of democracy in (critical) environmental politics is receiving renewed attention. In this chapter, I argue democratisation rightly has a long pedigree in environmental poli... Read More about Democracy and democratisation.

Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed (2022)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2022). Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed

Logical positivism famously dismissed metaphysics as meaningless. It failed to satisfy the verification criterion, according to which for any statement to be meaningful, it has to be able to be verified empirically. As positivists like A.J. Ayer argu... Read More about Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed.

Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed (2022)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2022). Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed

Logical positivism famously dismissed metaphysics as meaningless. It failed to satisfy the verification criterion, according to which for any statement to be meaningful, it has to be able to be verified empirically. As positivists like A.J. Ayer argu... Read More about Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed.

Covid, critical realism and category‐mistake (2022)
Journal Article
Paton, C. (2022). Covid, critical realism and category‐mistake. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 37(6), 3365 - 3368. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3584

Strangers in our midst: Immigration, social capital and segmented conflict (2022)
Journal Article
Griffiths. (2022). Strangers in our midst: Immigration, social capital and segmented conflict. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 22(4), 559-580. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895820986226

Putnam famously stated in his ‘hunkering down’ thesis that residents of diverse communities experiencing immigration retreat into their homes inhibiting the production of ‘social capital’. Immigration is therefore often posited to disrupt communities... Read More about Strangers in our midst: Immigration, social capital and segmented conflict.

China's Environmental Foreign Relations (2022)
Book
Wang-Kaeding, H. (2022). China's Environmental Foreign Relations. Routledge

Over recent decades, China has moved from being a follower towards taking on a leadership role in global environmental governance. This book discusses this important development. It examines the key role of Chinese interest groups, showing how throug... Read More about China's Environmental Foreign Relations.

Epistemological process towards decolonial praxis and epistemic inequality of an international student (2022)
Journal Article
Hayes, A., Lomer, S., & Hayat Taha, S. (2024). Epistemological process towards decolonial praxis and epistemic inequality of an international student. Educational Review, 76(1), 132-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2022.2115463

This paper focuses on the epistemic inequality of international students as a “new” inequality that is under-represented in the current debates about decolonisation (albeit shaped by colonial discourses depicting international students as in deficit... Read More about Epistemological process towards decolonial praxis and epistemic inequality of an international student.

We are stuck in the middle: intercultural adjustments and adaptations of Western-educated mainland PhD students at one Hong Kong university (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, L., & Woo, E. (2022). We are stuck in the middle: intercultural adjustments and adaptations of Western-educated mainland PhD students at one Hong Kong university. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2022.2122023