Smoke Steam Light The Railway Art Of John Austin

Explains why it is a mistake to think of Austin as an anti-philosopher; lays out what Austin had to say about the nature of knowledge; shows how Austin sought to reconcile his fall...

Abstract Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions is a book about how magic disappears from early Christian texts that feature the apostl...

Argues that, far from presenting an insurmountable obstacle to the project of constructive epistemology, the deployment of Austin’s requirement of fidelity enables us to find new s...

This tutorial is devoted to the evolution of transport hubs as logistics facilities. The author's methodological and mathematical apparatus for the design of logistics facilities i...

Alcohol, opiates, cocaine and marijuana, among other drugs, have been used and abused for millennia. Prior to the disease model approach to drug addiction, which posits that addict...

The American panic of 1893 has its origins in the fiscal policy of the U.S. Congress. Within a year, the 1893 panic ushered in one of the most famous labor conflicts in American hi...

Essential Cases: Contract Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in Parker v The South Eastern ...

This chapter discusses some central themes in a dispute between J. L. Austin and P. F. Strawson over the nature of truth. The dispute is of contemporary interest in part because it...