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"What is free will? Can it exist in a determined universe? How can we determine who, if anyone, possesses it? Philosophers have been debating these questions for millennia. In recent decades neuroscientists have joined the fray with questions of their own. Which neural mechanisms could enable conscious control of action? What are intentional actions? Do contemporary developments in neuroscience rule out free will or, instead, illuminate how it works? Over the past few years, neuroscientists and philosophers have increasingly come to understand that both fields can make substantive contributions to the free-will debate, so working together is the best path forward to understanding whether, when, and how our choices might be free. We therefore asked leading philosophers and neuroscientists which questions related to free will they would most like the other field to answer. Those experts then voted on the 15 most important questions for each field to answer. This book is a collection of the answers to those questions along with follow-up questions from world experts in the neuroscience and philosophy of free will. These varied perspectives will fascinate, illuminate, and stimulate students from both fields along with anyone who wants to be brought up to date on these profound issues"--

In the 2010s, America's adversaries conducted numerous damaging cyber operations inside the United the Office of Personnel Management breach, attacks on banks, persistent intellectual property theft by China, and the Russian intervention in the 2016 election. The US--possessor of the world's most powerful cyber arsenal--responded in 2018 by unveiling a new Defend Forward strategy. It is a large step in the direction of more aggressive action in cyberspace--albeit for defensive ends. The US has not attempted to hide this shift. To the contrary, it has telegraphed the change. But the telegraphing has taken place at a highly abstract level. Very little is known about precisely what types of operations Defend Forward entails. While the US government has asserted that Defend Forward is consistent with domestic and international law, it has not explained how the new strategy overcomes the perceived legal constraints that previously tempered US responses to cyber intrusions andthreats. This volume, edited by Jack Goldsmith and featuring a cast of leading scholars in the field, provides an authoritative overview of the origins and operation of Defend Forward, and a comprehensive assessment of its legality. For anyone interested in the future of great power conflict and the cyber strategies that the US is deploying against its adversaries, The United States' Defend Forward Cyber Strategy is an essential read.

Twelve of the world's leading philosophers tackle the tough questions about forgiveness, shedding light on what forgiveness is, when it is morally good, and how it connects to larger issues of free will, religion, institutional wrongdoing, apology, moral responsibility, and our emotions.

The Phoenicians created the Mediterranean world as we know it--yet they remain a poorly understood group. In this Handbook, the first of its kind in English, readers will find expert essays covering the history, culture, and areas of settlement throughout the Phoenician and Punic world. číst celé

"This collection explores the link between theatre and human flourishing. It interrogates both the social good of theatre and the personally restorative work of a range of live embodied performances. It brings together the disciplines of theatre (and performance studies) and psychology, especially positive psychology, to explore the social benefits of theatre: creating community, encouraging interconnection, serving as a mean to reveal and share both healing and trauma"--

Fandom and the Beatles: The Act You've Known for All These Years offers an insightful look into the band's enduring appeal through fan responses, exploring how The Beatles have inspired such loyalty and multigenerational popularity.

All of Africa in a single volume. Not since John Gunther has the real Africa appeared between two covers. And, the continent is a puzzle for most people. This book answers questions about who and what is African, about climate change, about war, about how Africans make their living, about health and schooling, and much more.

Editors and translators Wang and Ivanhoe introduce the lives and ideas of two female Korean Confucian philosophers from the late Joseon Dynasty, Im Yunjidang (1721-1793) and Gang Jeongildang (1772-1832), exploring their writings and arguments for the ability of women to attain the highest forms of intellectual and moral achievement and become female sages (yeoseong).

A comprehensive rethinking about the nature of American grand strategy in the past, present, and future.

The Virtue of Loyalty presents ten new academic essays on the topic of loyalty considered as a virtue, written by scholars from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, law, religious studies, empirical psychology, and child development. Many of the essays are concerned with the issue of whether loyalty is a virtue, and under what conditions. Others confront questions pertaining to the psychological traits and commitments that accompany or enable loyalty.

Everyday language is saturated with appeals to what might be the case or to what must be true or to what cannot happen. Possibility, necessity, and impossibility are modal terms, and philosophers have long wondered how to best understand them. This volume traces the history of some of the most prominent and important contributions to our understanding of possibility and necessity and related concepts over the past two and half millennia of western philosophy, from ancient Greek philosophers through current debates in the 21st century.

The fifth volume of the Oxford History of the Ancient Near East covers the period from the second half of the 7th century BC until the campaigns of Alexander III of Macedon (336-323 BC) brought an end to the Achaemenid Dynasty and the Persian Empire. Tying together periods and political history covered by previous volumes in the series, this title focuses on the Persian Empire's immediate predecessor states: Saite Egypt, the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and the kingdom of Lydia, among other kingdoms and tribal alliances.

Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have some of the most celebrated religious thinkers. This volume comprises 24 scholarly studies that detail challenges to the dominant anthropocentrism of most religious traditions.

The second of three volumes, Race, Sexuality, and Gender and the Musical Screen Adaptation: An Oxford Handbook, traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, focusing in particular of issues of race, gender and sexuality. Enduringly popular adaptations such as Kiss Me Kate and Pal Joey are considered through the lens of identity, while several chapters consider how different adaptations of the same stage musical reflect shifting historical contexts. Together, the chapters incite lively debates about the process of adapting Broadway for the big screen and provide models for future studies.

From Asia to Africa to the Middle East, #MeToo has inspired local movements and hashtag trends like #AnaKaman and transnational collective hashtags like #MosqueMeToo. Yet, most Western scholarly and popular treatment of the movement assumes it is a primarily Western phenomenon. To attend to the revolutionary international impact of #MeToo, Iqra Shagufta Cheema brings together contributions from scholars and scholar activists that look at specific iterations of the #MeToo movement across multiple communities, cultures, and countries in the Global South. Going beyond gender, this comprehensive study focuses on the intersectional assemblage of ethnicity, religion, race, class, and politics that informs #MeToo and its place in local and transnational feminisms. By doing so, The Other #MeToos highlights the adaptation, translation, and impact of #MeToo in non-Western, postcolonial, minoritized, and othered locales to explore its wider scope and possibilities.

"Although intrinsic Reality is characterized in terms of origin, point of emergence, and beginning, the relationship between intrinsic Reality and its phenomenal manifestation is not like that of mother and offspring or creator and created. Rather, Xiong not only insists on the ontological parity between ti and yong, but also on their ontological identity"--

This volume provides a comprehensive edition of Suetonius's Life of Augustus for readers of Latin at the intermediate and advanced levels, with a complete Latin text accompanied by a running vocabulary, grammatical support, and historical notes to aid comprehension.

Camp TV of the 1960s provides an in-depth exploration of the various forms of camp television that emerged during this pivotal decade. The authors challenge the traditional view of sixties television as a period of creative decline between the 1950s Golden Age and the networks' shift towards "relevance" in the early 1970s. Featuring contributions from a diverse group of media and television scholars, the work reevaluates iconic programs such as Batman, The Monkees, The Addams Family, Bewitched, F Troop, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. These chapters analyze beloved prime-time shows that significantly incorporated camp elements, many of which became widely syndicated and left lasting impacts on popular culture. Additional discussions cover early sixties TV precursors, British camp series like The Avengers, the use of musical codes for camp humor, and the influence of queer viewing strategies. The multivalence of camp allowed for conservative interpretations, particularly among older audiences, facilitating the rise of "mass camp" in American culture by the early seventies. This work is vital for students and scholars in television studies, those interested in camp history and theory, the 1960s, popular culture, and fans of these often-overlooked television programs.

Controversies over how to define the word "religion" have persisted for decades, culminating in those who now choose to study the word itself and not just what it is said to name. What is Religion?: Debating the Academic Study of Religion invites readers to eavesdrop on scholarly debates over the limits of, and uses for, a word commonly used but infrequently defined in a precise manner. This volume takes the temperature of the modern field of ReligiousStudies by inviting a diverse group of international scholars to offer their own substantive contribution that builds on the shared opening prompt, "Religion is...".

This book represents a substantial and purposeful effort to move the academic discussion beyond the trolley problem to the broader ethical, legal, and social implications that autonomous vehicles present. There are still urgent questions waiting to be addressed, for example: how AVs might interact with human drivers in mixed or "hybrid" traffic environments; how AVs might reshape our urban landscapes; what unique security or privacy concerns are raised by AVs as connected devices in the "Internet of Things"; how the benefits and burdens of this new technology, including mobility, traffic congestion, and pollution, will be distributed throughout society; and more.

Since the end of the 20th century, social movements around the world have called for accountability and reparation for past harms, particularly harms committed by states against various minority groups. This volume argues that guilt is a productive force that helps to balance unequal power dynamics between individuals and groups. With chapters bridging the social sciences, law, and humanities, chapter authors examine the role and function of guilt in society andpresent case studies from seven national contexts.

In Quantum International Relations, James Der Derian and Alexander Wendt gather rising scholars and leading experts to make the case for quantum approaches to world politics. Contributors present the core principles of quantum mechanics--entanglement, uncertainty, superposition, and the wave function--as significant catalysts and superior heuristics for an accelerating quantum future. Facing a reality which no longer corresponds to an outdated Newtonianworldview of states as billiard balls, individuals as rational actors or power as objective interest, Der Derian and Wendt issue an urgent call for a new human science of quantum International Relations.

One of America's most celebrated poets, Emily Dickinson was largely unpublished during her lifetime. Her poetry, which emerged in a slim volume in 1890, continues to resonate today. Known for its precision and sparseness, Dickinson's work engages with philosophical themes such as death, spirituality, and the complexities of the mind. She approaches these topics through close observation, exploring alternatives and connecting thoughts, yet her poems often lack definitive conclusions. The insights she presents can conflict, relying heavily on imagery, juxtaposition, assonance, slant rhyme, and punctuation. The six chapters of this volume argue that Dickinson is an epistemically ambitious poet who tackles fundamental questions with persuasive arguments. She embodies abstract ideas in concrete forms, guiding readers into productive thought processes. Rather than merely making philosophical assertions, she illustrates how poetry contributes meaningfully to philosophical discourse. The essays, contributed by both philosophers and literary theorists, counter recent critical perspectives that focus on Dickinson's uncertainty, unconventional style, and the unresolved nature of her manuscripts. The emerging view suggests that knowing is akin to cleaning, mending, and lacemaking—an ongoing effort where poetry serves as a powerful, perhaps essential, tool.

"No philosophical dictum is better known than Descartes's assertion about the intimate relation between thinking and existing. What remains unknown is how we are to understand the 'I' who thinks and exists. This book is about the ways that the concept of an 'I' or a 'self' has been developed and deployed at different times in the history of Western Philosophy. It also offers a striking contrast case, the 'interconnected' self, who appears in some expressions of African Philosophy. Appealing to philosophy to illuminate the concept of a 'self' may seem unnecessary. Anyone who can read this book is a self, so why can we not just tailor a concept to fit what we already know about ourselves? This objection has considerable force and provides a constraint on efforts to fashion a self-concept. Although there is a sense of 'self-knowledge' in which it is said to require a lifetime of serious effort to achieve (and which is the topic of another volume in this series), what is at issue here is simply knowing that one is a self"--

Provides an engaging and thought-provoking exploration of the way texts emerging in the legal process 'travel' in various ways to produce new forms and new meanings in new contexts.