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This is the first in-depth comparative and empirical analysis of shareholder stewardship, revealing the previously unknown complexities of this global movement. It highlights the role of institutional investors and other shareholders, examining how they use their formal and informal power to influence companies. The book includes an in-depth chapter on every jurisdiction which has adopted a stewardship code and an analysis of stewardship in th...

Using interdisciplinary methods, this book explores Asian understandings of human dignity and human rights in the context of courts, religious traditions, and socio-political change. Furthering the dialogue between Asian and Western social values, this comparative study offers an alternative to a rigidified social imagination.

From autonomous ships to marine genetic resources, new technologies are challenging established legal doctrine and governance at sea, affecting maritime industries and shipping, alternative energy and naval operations. This book explores how emerging technologies are reshaping the international law of the sea and how it is interpreted and applied.

How can the law be employed pragmatically to facilitate development and underpin illiberal principles? The case of contemporary China shows that the law plays an increasingly important role in the country's illiberal approach to both domestic and China-related global affairs, which has posed intellectual challenges in understanding it with reference to conventional, Western legal concepts and theories. This book provides a systematic explorati...

Kant famously argues that our experience of the empirical world is shaped by our cognitive faculties. But an important part of this story is yet to be told. This book explores the final instalment of Kant's transcendental undertaking, tying closely together his elusive discussions of natural beauty and teleology.

Reimagining Dinosaurs is aimed at literary scholars, historians of science, and curious general readers. Unlike previous works, which suggest that American museums made dinosaurs famous, this book argues that British and American popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a transatlantic cultural icon between 1880 and 1920.

Political philosophers and theorists spend their time analysing political institutions, but thus far have ignored transparency. This book offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of transparency in government, examining both abstract normative defences of transparency and transparency's role in the theory of institutional design.

Intended for scholars and advanced students of the De Anima, this original study asks why (in Aristotle's view) it is in human nature to know reality, and follows the thread of this question-and its answer-throughout the work.

This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date chapters from experts on the cognition of non-human primates, and describes how primate cognition is studied in labs, zoos, sanctuaries, and in the field. It analyses issues of replicability, open-access, and ethics, with strong emphasis on comparative approaches.

This book makes lesser-known philosophical texts on freedom of the will after Kant available in English for the first time, and will provide a valuable foundation for further research on free will in post-Kantian philosophy.

This book uses Dialogical Self Theory to analyse and respond to some of the most pressing problems emerging at the interface of self and society, including climate change, uncertainty, well-being, and the disenchantment of the world. It is for researchers in the fields of psychology, philosophy, sociology, and political theory.

Why do some people switch from one extremist political or religious ideology to join the group they previously considered their greatest enemy? This book is the first study to explore the extraordinary stories of these side-switchers to understand how radicalization works and how extremist views can change.

The complex phenomenon of responsibility in negligence is analysed from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. The study sheds light on key ethical and legal issues related to agency and negligence to impact substantive law and policy-making in different jurisdictions.

The essays in this volume explore the distinctive features of the Prolegomena, including Kant's discussion of philosophical methodology, his critical idealism, the nature of experience, his engagement with Hume, the nature of the self, the relation between geometry and physics, and what we can cognize about God.

In this innovative book, Hasok Chang constructs a philosophy of science for 'realistic people' interested in understanding and promoting the actual practices of inquiry in science and other knowledge-focused areas of life. Inspired by pragmatist philosophy, he reconceives the very notions of reality and truth on the basis of his concept of the 'operational coherence' of epistemic activities, and offers new pragmatist conceptions of truth and r...

This volume provides a reliable point of entrance to the thought of Duns Scotus while giving a snapshot of some of the best research that is now being done on this difficult but intellectually rewarding thinker.

Pratt uses practice theory and relational sociology to analyse transformations in the prohibition on assassination, torture, and mercenaries during the US War on Terror. This book will interest students and scholars of foreign and defence policy, international relations theory, international security, social theory, and American politics.

This book presents an integrated and practical system for the physical and sensory rehabilitation, education, and social and cultural remediation of post-institutionalized international adoptees. It is essential reading for researchers and clinicians concerned with childhood trauma, remedial education, and issues of international adoption.

Research on information-seeking has been surprisingly limited in comparison to other areas of human cognition and behavior. With perspectives from leading scientists working in the field, this volume develops the scientific basis for studying human information-seeking, strengthening connections between psychology, computer science and neuroscience.

Uncovering the rich taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy, this interdisciplinary study explores how the Victorians conceptualised poverty, mobility and homelessness. It offers an important resource for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and history, situating major canonical texts within illuminating cultural contexts.