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Ali Mazrui: The Global Muslim Thinker (2016)
Journal Article
Sheikh, N. S., & Ali Salem, A. (2016). Ali Mazrui: The Global Muslim Thinker. American journal of Islamic social sciences,

Using the ‘recovery’ and ‘rehabilitation’ paradigms to support desistence of substance-involved offenders: Exploration of dual and multi-focus interventions (Invited Paper) (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Using the ‘recovery’ and ‘rehabilitation’ paradigms to support desistence of substance-involved offenders: Exploration of dual and multi-focus interventions (Invited Paper). Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 274-290. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCRPP-09-2016-0021

Purpose
The links between substance use and offending are well evidenced in the literature, and increasingly, substance misuse recovery is being seen as a central component of the process of rehabilitation from offending, with substance use identifi... Read More about Using the ‘recovery’ and ‘rehabilitation’ paradigms to support desistence of substance-involved offenders: Exploration of dual and multi-focus interventions (Invited Paper).

The Potential Use of Legitimate Force for the Preservation of Order: Defining the Inherent Role of Public Police Through Policing Functions That Cannot Be Carried Out by Private Police (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The Potential Use of Legitimate Force for the Preservation of Order: Defining the Inherent Role of Public Police Through Policing Functions That Cannot Be Carried Out by Private Police. https://doi.org/10.23666/zzr201601

In the UK, private policing institutions have been rapidly increasing since the 1980s, so the lines between public- and private police have been blurred. This paper explores whether there is a policing function that is inherent in public police and i... Read More about The Potential Use of Legitimate Force for the Preservation of Order: Defining the Inherent Role of Public Police Through Policing Functions That Cannot Be Carried Out by Private Police.

From Possibility to Properties? Or from Properties to Possibility? (2016)
Journal Article
Allen. (2016). From Possibility to Properties? Or from Properties to Possibility?. Philosophy, 21-49. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819116000577

This paper contrasts two metaphysical accounts of modality and properties: Modal Realism which treats possible entities as primitive; and Strong Dispositionalism in which metaphysical possibility and necessity are determined by actually existing disp... Read More about From Possibility to Properties? Or from Properties to Possibility?.

What is at Stake in Illusionism? (2016)
Journal Article
Tartaglia. (2016). What is at Stake in Illusionism?. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 236-255

I endorse the central message of Keith Frankish’s ‘Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness’: if physicalism is true, phenomenal consciousness must be an illusion. Attempts to find an intermediate position between physicalist illusionism and the reje... Read More about What is at Stake in Illusionism?.

The everyday work of the drug treatment practitioner: The influence and constraints of a risk-based agenda (2016)
Journal Article
Weston, S. (2016). The everyday work of the drug treatment practitioner: The influence and constraints of a risk-based agenda. Critical Social Policy, 36(4), 511-530. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018316632666

Crime reduction is a key objective in drug treatment policy and practice, and the criminal justice system (CJS) is a key player in the delivery of treatment, particularly its potential to provide a pathway into drug treatment. Despite cultural, ideol... Read More about The everyday work of the drug treatment practitioner: The influence and constraints of a risk-based agenda.

What is at Stake in Illusionism? (2016)
Journal Article
Tartaglia. (2016). What is at Stake in Illusionism?. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 236-255

I endorse the central message of Keith Frankish’s ‘Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness’: if physicalism is true, phenomenal consciousness must be an illusion. Attempts to find an intermediate position between physicalist illusionism and the reje... Read More about What is at Stake in Illusionism?.

The golden handcuffs? Choice, compliance and relocation amongst transnational professionals and executives (2016)
Journal Article
Devadason, R. (2017). The golden handcuffs? Choice, compliance and relocation amongst transnational professionals and executives. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(13), 2265-2282. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2016.1260444

People who routinely cross borders for their jobs are often cast as beneficiaries of globalisation. But in a world of economic downturns, un- or underemployment as well as political unrest access to an increasingly global market becomes the personal... Read More about The golden handcuffs? Choice, compliance and relocation amongst transnational professionals and executives.

Ethical and Politico-juridical Norms in the 'Tugendlehre' (2016)
Journal Article
Baiasu. (2016). Ethical and Politico-juridical Norms in the 'Tugendlehre'. Studi Kantiani, 39, 59-76. https://doi.org/10.19272/201602901004

Kant’s view of the relation between ethical and politico-juridical norms has been debated in the literature,
especially his view in the Rechtslehre. Apart from the exegetical question about the accurate interpretation of
Kant’s practical philosophy... Read More about Ethical and Politico-juridical Norms in the 'Tugendlehre'.

Consumption-based carbon accounting: does it have a future? (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Consumption-based carbon accounting: does it have a future?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.438

Internationally, allocation of responsibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is currently based on the production-based (PB) accounting method, which measures emissions generated in the place where goods and services are produced. However, the... Read More about Consumption-based carbon accounting: does it have a future?.

Postgraduate Engaged Research: Get out of the office and into the field! (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Postgraduate Engaged Research: Get out of the office and into the field!

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has a lively postgraduate community and many of our PGR students are involved in Engaged Research. In this series of blog posts, postgraduates from across the Faculty reflect on how their work engages wit... Read More about Postgraduate Engaged Research: Get out of the office and into the field!.

Toleration and pragmatism: themes from the work of John Horton (2016)
Journal Article
Baiasu. (2016). Toleration and pragmatism: themes from the work of John Horton. Philosophia, 397-413. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-016-9767-y

John Horton’s work has been particularly influential in debates on specific topics related to toleration, political obligation, modus vivendi and political realism. More recently, he has synthesised these views in the form of a distinctive position i... Read More about Toleration and pragmatism: themes from the work of John Horton.

From intergenerational transmission to intra-active ethical-generational becoming: Children, parents, crabs and the activity of rockpooling (2016)
Journal Article
Martens, L. (2016). From intergenerational transmission to intra-active ethical-generational becoming: Children, parents, crabs and the activity of rockpooling. Families, Relationships and Societies, 5(3), 447-462. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674316X14758498374746

Global climate change poses challenging questions for how human beings should be living their lives in a more-than-human world. These questions are complex and multifaceted, and thus demand actions across a broad range of social and political fronts.... Read More about From intergenerational transmission to intra-active ethical-generational becoming: Children, parents, crabs and the activity of rockpooling.

Book review: Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change by Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle (2016)
Journal Article
Ryan, B. J. (2016). Book review: Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change by Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle. Capital and Class, 40(3), 560-562. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816816676940b

Within the last year or so, a number of books have been published that critically examine how strategies of security have become attached to environmental problems. Robert Marzec’s (2015) contribution, for instance, draws together the history of the... Read More about Book review: Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change by Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle.

Is Kant’s Metaphysics Profoundly Unsatisfactory?: Critical Discussion of A. W. Moore’s Critique of Kant (2016)
Journal Article
Baiasu. (2016). Is Kant’s Metaphysics Profoundly Unsatisfactory?: Critical Discussion of A. W. Moore’s Critique of Kant. Kantian Review, 21(3), 465 -481. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415416000194

In his recent book, The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics, Adrian W. Moore takes Kant to play a crucial role in the evolution of modern philosophy; yet, for him, Kant’s metaphysics is ultimately and profoundly unsatisfactory. In this article, I examine... Read More about Is Kant’s Metaphysics Profoundly Unsatisfactory?: Critical Discussion of A. W. Moore’s Critique of Kant.