Reasons to Be Cheerful

Aesthetic reasons are reasons to do and think various things. For example, it makes sense to wonder if a tree stump on the lawn was left there for environmental rather than aesthet...

What are our reasons for acting? Morality purports to give us these reasons, and so do norms of prudence and the laws of society. The theory of practical reason assesses the author...

Emily Eden's childhood prepared her well for her role as companion to her brother, the Governor-General of India. Outwardly all that a minor aristocrat should be, the observant and...

This chapter sketches a metasemantic model that promises to vindicate a broadly rationalist version of normative realism. It introduces a metasemantic principle that ties reference...

A database of all the 233 islands in Scotland populated at any time since 1841 shows over half becoming depopulated between 1861 and 2011, with a marked inverse relationship betwee...

Which specific effects can hiking for health reasons have on body and soul? This question is at the center of the SRH Study of 2019, which included 59 participants during...

This chapter presents an interview that took place at Terence Davies's home in Mistley, Essex, on October 16, 2012. Topics discussed include the influence of T. S. Eliot's The Four...

The essence of an international organization is the delegation of decision-making authority from individual states to the organization, representing the collectivity of member stat...