“…Where early analytic philosophers often relied on a sharp distinction between science and philosophy—the former an empirical discipline concerned with fact, the latter an a priori discipline concerned with meaning—philosophers today largely follow Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000) in his seminal rejection of this distinction. This book offers a comprehensive study of Quine’s naturalism. …”

“…Through her research, for example, Kirsch found that women were less likely than their male counterparts to think of their work as sufficiently significant to write up and submit for publication, tended to hold on to their work longer than men before sending it out, and were less likely than men to revise and resubmit manuscripts that had been initially rejected…”

“…Disgusted by publishers and editors who refused to cover important stories for fear of offending advertisers, the press baron E. W. Scripps rejected conventional wisdom and set out to prove that an ad-free newspaper could be profitable entirely on circulation. …”
Sumario

“…Although God as simple and Triune was widely accepted for over a millennium, simplicity has been widely critiqued and rejected by modern theology. The purported error is in conceiving God's unity prior to the Triune persons, an error begun by Augustine and crystallized in Aquinas. …”

“…Las primeras activistas, políticas, librepensadoras, viajeras, artistas... fueron (todavía son) tachadas de rebeldes o excéntricas. Las vidas de estas transgresoras, que afrontaron la difícil tarea de traspasar los límites y desestabilizar el poder, podría representar el primer capítulo de una historia cultural de las mujeres con nombre propio. …”

“…Nicholas Smith aims to provide a clearer understanding of the nature of the value that the law is trying to uphold - equality. He rejects the notion that the concept of equality is vacuous and defends the idea as the proper range of moral concern. …”

“…James y otros espíritus rebeldes del Sur. Por último, analiza el entramado entre revolución y comunismo que tan profundamente ha marcado la historia del siglo XX -- Contracubierta…”

“…It will be a short step from there to Republican-dominated states rejecting the legitimacy of the federal government and effectively seceding. …”

“…In doing so, he exposes how this antiauthoritarian youth culture reflected a mixture of sexual liberation, a rejection of the ideological indoctrination of the dictatorship, a reinvention of native Iberian pluralistic traditions and a burgeoning global youth culture that connected the USA, Britain, France and Spain. …”

“…Este héroe mítico, nacido en el corazón del Barroco español y mecido por los aires de la Contrarreforma, contiene, aunque todavía en germen, todos los sentidos que irá adquiriendo con el tiempo: el rebelde social, el seductor, el hombre enfrentado a Dios y su esencial e inevitable encuentro con lo sobrenatural, con la muerte…”

“…While his strengths, as we know nowadays, might not have always laid in systematic arguments, his main concerns have shaped the development of social thought in fundamental ways: the question of changing social bonds and the problem of integration; belief and unbelief in societal values; acceptance and rejection of the law, obligation and rights; inner tensions of normative orders; the problem of aligning the polymorphism of normativities with the polymorphic structures of society – and, hence, the project of normative and social pluralism. …”

“…It makes the case that embracing the common good does not entail a rejection of liberalism, but that a commitment to liberal politics is compatible with faithful adherence to the Catholic tradition. …”

“…The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. …”

“…Estudia las diferentes formas de expresión (escritas, iconográficas, arquitectónicas y ceremoniales) empleadas por los rebeldes o por las autoridades para legitimar o difundir sus acciones…”

“…The fifteen essays bring a broad multidisciplinary approach to the concept of borderlines and its markings through artistic manifestations. Rejecting older "normative" understandings of the word border lines as signifying semantic irreversibility, this work gives prominence to the plasticity of the combined single word "borderlines." …”

“…A central question in political science is who governs and how.Typically political scientists attempt to answer this question by relying upon either empirical analysis, which explains existing political practices, or normative analysis, which prescribes ideal political practices.Political scientist Paul Schumaker rejects this distinction between empirical and normative theory. …”

“…Localization of the seizure focus followed by surgical resection provide the best opportunities to cure epilepsy. …”

“…Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples' chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires : a good life. …”

“…Ultimately, the authors reject a "one-size-fits-all" approach and argue that we must weigh up the reasons for and against honouring and admiring in each particular case. …”

“…Capitalism and Inequality rejects the popular view that attributes the recent surge in inequality to a failure of market institutions. …”