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The Magic of Plants and Animals (2025)
Book Chapter
Parish, J., & Lowell, J. (in press). The Magic of Plants and Animals. In Cultural History of Magic (20). Bloomsbury

Utopia and Time: Conservative and Radical Utopias in the Age of the Anthropocene (2024)
Book Chapter
Featherstone, M. (2024). Utopia and Time: Conservative and Radical Utopias in the Age of the Anthropocene. In Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds (3-15). London: Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53491-1_1

My objective in this chapter is to develop a Freudian-Heideggerian understanding of the concept of utopia that conceives of the impulse to imagine ideal societies in terms of a modern tendency to both think about possible futures and create new world... Read More about Utopia and Time: Conservative and Radical Utopias in the Age of the Anthropocene.

Assemblies and the Courts (2024)
Book Chapter
Cammiss, S., Doherty, B., & Hayes, G. (2024). Assemblies and the Courts. In The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Assembly. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197674871.013.26

To what extent is the protest trial a threat or an opportunity to protesters? This chapter argues that it is both. Trials potentially provide a site of resistance and the means for ongoing struggle and contestation, while simultaneously threatening t... Read More about Assemblies and the Courts.

To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge (2023)
Book Chapter
D'Oro. (2023). To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge. In P.F. Strawson and His Legacy. In Audun Bengtson, Benjamin De Mesel and Sybren Heyndels (eds.) (192-211). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192858474.003.0010

How should one respond to scepticism? Should one seek to refute it? Or should scepticism be ignored? This chapter explores four responses to scepticism: that of ambitious, truth-directed transcendental arguments; that of modest transcendental argumen... Read More about To reply or not to reply, that is the question: descriptive metaphysics and the sceptical challenge.

Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion (2023)
Book Chapter
Head, J. (2023). Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion. In The Schopenhauerian Mind. (1). Routledge

This chapter provides an overview of Schopenhauer’s philosophy of religion, highlighting its rather ambiguous treatment in scattered remarks throughout his corpus. The discussion begins by considering Schopenhauer’s account of the source of religion... Read More about Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion.

Gyekye and Contemporary Idealism (2023)
Book Chapter
Tartaglia, J. (2023). Gyekye and Contemporary Idealism. In Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and AI. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36163-0_2

I begin with a defence of both Gyekye’s universalist and African metaphilosophies. In light of these metaphilosophies, I discuss the contemporary Western hegemony of materialist philosophy of mind and its origins in Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind... Read More about Gyekye and Contemporary Idealism.

Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes (2023)
Book Chapter
Dupre. (2023). Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes. In Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Mind, vol. 3 (57–86). (3). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198879466.003.0003

There is a tension at the heart of much contemporary work in philosophy of psychology—specifically, within representational theories of mind. On the one hand, the central insight of this tradition is that mental and behavioral processes are understoo... Read More about Correspondence and Construction: The Representational Theory of Mind and Internally Driven Classificatory Schemes.

Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS (2023)
Book Chapter
Sheikh, N. S. (2023). Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS. In Politics Between Nations (497-517). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24896-2_24

When the Islamic State group reinvented itself as the new Caliphate in 2014, this illocutionary act followed from an extended process of semantic Islamization of brute politics. Its unholy violence, which for over half a decade made it the scourge of... Read More about Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS.

Conway's World Soul and Monism (2023)
Book Chapter
Head, J. (in press). Conway's World Soul and Monism. In New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy

This paper considers the place of the ‘Middle Nature’ in Anne Conway’s philosophy, as a kind of ‘World Soul’-type figure that is both intimately present in all things in nature and acts as a mediator between God and creation. It is argued that consid... Read More about Conway's World Soul and Monism.

Introduction (2023)
Book Chapter
Sadek, H., & Jones, S. (2023). Introduction. In Contemporary British Muslim Arts and Cultural Production (1-21). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003330714-1

After more than 15 years of state securitisation, hostile media coverage and rising levels of Islamophobia, many Muslims in the UK express a widespread sense of being held ‘under siege – spied on, interrogated, routinely asked to “put their house in... Read More about Introduction.

Technology and Rorty’s Cultural Politics (2023)
Book Chapter
Tartaglia, J. (2023). Technology and Rorty’s Cultural Politics. In Handbuch Richard Rorty (831–845). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-16253-5_39

In Sect. 1, I point out the tension in Rorty’s commitment to both pragmatism and materialism. In Sect. 2, I explain how Rorty sought to justify this combination, and argue that his account is not only implausible but incomplete. In Sect. 3, I explain... Read More about Technology and Rorty’s Cultural Politics.

The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare (2023)
Book Chapter
Mandelbaum, M. (in press). The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare. In Variations on Sovereignty. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003287506-3

This chapter traces the discursive and phantasmic (re-)productions of state sovereignty in IR theory from traditional scholarship to contemporary mainstream IR theory, thus contributing to recent analyses of sovereignty in critical and historical IR.... Read More about The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare.

Reaction, Restoration, and the Return of Alpha-Islam (2023)
Book Chapter
Sheikh, N. S. (2023). Reaction, Restoration, and the Return of Alpha-Islam. In Routledge Handbook of Non-Violent Extremism (100-121). (1). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032793-9

While the ambiguous notion of “Wahhabism” has captured both the popular imagination and public discourses of officialdom across the Western world, its precise theological and sociological entailments have been left for scholars to discern. This chapt... Read More about Reaction, Restoration, and the Return of Alpha-Islam.

Letters on Suspension (2022)
Book Chapter
Lim, E., & Anuar, A. M. (2022). Letters on Suspension. In International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific (191-200). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3675-3_14

I often think about my last flight back to Boston from Singapore in Jan 2020. Six months before, I visited Chicago in August, and Houston in September. Despite having classes and a teaching assistantship, I flew to India to attend my friend’s wedding... Read More about Letters on Suspension.

Understanding Policy-Making in an Authoritarian State: An Ontology-Driven Framework for Analyzing Chinese Higher Education Policymaking (2022)
Book Chapter
Wu, J. (2022). Understanding Policy-Making in an Authoritarian State: An Ontology-Driven Framework for Analyzing Chinese Higher Education Policymaking. In Theory and Method in Higher Education Research (61-81). (Vol. 8). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2056-375220220000008004

Studying Chinese higher education internationalization policy-making requires paying attention to the political ontology of China's top-designed policy-making system before proceeding to methodological approaches. The ontology is two-fold: a fixed re... Read More about Understanding Policy-Making in an Authoritarian State: An Ontology-Driven Framework for Analyzing Chinese Higher Education Policymaking.