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Situates the academic boycott of Israel in the broader context of academic freedom

Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While much of the public debate has focussed on ?no platforming' by students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted efforts to silence the critical voices of both academics and students, through the use of bureaucracy, legal threats and online harassment. Such tactics have conspicuously been used, with...

This book updates our understanding of Hume¿s scientific methodology by using a more sophisticated picture of science as a model. Landy argues that Hume is a kind of scientific realist who holds that science can and must employ theoretical representations of unobservable entities to explain the observed regularities of experience, and that we ar

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This book examines Kant¿s Critique of Pure Reason as presenting a sophisticated inferentialist theory of mental representation and places the work in its proper historical and philosophical context as a response to Hume¿s Treatise of Human Nature. Landy argues that Hume¿s theory of mental representation is far more radical than previously taken to believe, and in this way serves as the strongest possible foil to Kant.

Diaspora Jews are increasingly likely to criticize Israel and support Palestinian rights. In the USA, Europe, and elsewhere, Jewish organizations have sprung up to oppose Israel's treatment of Palestinians, facing harsh criticism from fellow Jews for their actions. Why and how has this movement come about? What does it mean for Palestinians and for diaspora Jews? "Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights" is a groundbreaking study of this vital ...

This unique book is a vibrant description of diaspora Jewish opposition to Israel.

This book examines Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as presenting a sophisticated inferentialist theory of mental representation and places the work in its proper historical and philosophical context as a response to Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. Landy argues that Hume's theory of mental representation is far more radical than previously taken to believe, and in this way serves as the strongest possible foil to Kant. By engaging in the dialec...