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Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability

Edited By Jennifer Gomez Menjivar, Hector Nicolas Ramos Flores

Critically Assesses How Black Collectives across the Hemisphere Evoke Their Rights

Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge

Reflections on Objectivist Epistemology

Edited By Allan Gotthelf, James G. Lennox

Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge offers scholarly analysis of key elements of Ayn Rand’s radically new approach to epistemology. The four essays, by contributors intimately familiar with this area of her work, discuss Rand’s theory of concepts—including its new account of abstraction and essence—and its central role in her epistemology; how that view leads to a distinctive conception of the justification of knowledge; her realist account of perceptual awareness and its role in the acquisition of knowledge; and finally, the implications of that theory for understanding the growth of scientific knowledge. The volume concludes with critical commentary on the essays by distinguished philosophers with differing philosophical viewpoints and the author’s responses to those commentaries.

Claiming Brazil

Performances of Citizenship in the Centenary of Independence

By Gregg Bocketti

A Timely Study of Brazil’s First Centenary of Independence and Exploration of Brazilian Nationhood and Citizenship

Five Bay Landscapes

Curious Explorations of the Great Lakes Basin

By Karen Lutsky, Sean Burkholder

Offers Fresh Insights about Environmental Design and Planning along the Great Lakes Shoreline

Polygynous Marriages among the Kyrgyz

Institutional Change and Endurance

By Michele E. Commercio

An Original Account of Marriage Practices in Kyrgyzstan in the Pre-Soviet, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Eras

The Dynamics of Science

Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science

Edited By Grant Ramsey, Andreas De Block

Provides a Fresh Perspective on What Science Is and How and Why It Changes

The Shale Renaissance

How Fracking Has Changed Pennsylvania in the Twenty-First Century

By Jonathan M. Fisk, Soren Jordan, A.J. Good

Examines the Administrative Challenges and Politics Associated with Fracking in Pennsylvania

Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences

Edited By Gereon Wolters, James G. Lennox

Leading biologists and philosophers of biology discuss the basic theories and concepts of biology and their connections with ethics, economics, and psychology, providing a remarkably unified report on the “state of the art” in the philosophy of biology.