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20/06/2024

The present collection aims to examine this fertile period in the history of concerning its significance for understanding the relation between theoretical and practical reason, or, relatedly, facts and values. Our contributors have explored different important ways in which both the shortcomings and insights of the theoretical/practical distinction have shaped Western philosophy.

Paniel Reyes Cárdenas (Mexico 1981), was awarded his MPhil and PhD in Philosophy by The University of Sheffield, UK. In his PhD Thesis, he researched the place of Scholastic Realism in Peirce’s Pragmatist Philosophy under the supervision of Professor Christopher Hookway and Steve Makin. Though Paniel’s approach is centered in the pragmatist tradition, he has a wide range of philosophical interests: Paniel has published papers on the philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion and German Idealism. Paniel has ample participation in academic conferences in many different countries and is the founder of the Peirce Latin-American Society.

Roberto Casales García (Mexico City, 1986) has a BA and MA in Philosophy (Universidad Panamericana) and a PhD in Philosophy (National University of Mexico) graduated with honours. He has been a Professor of Philosophy at UPAEP University since 2013 and head of the department since 2017. He has worked on Ethics, Philosophical anthropology, the history of modern philosophy and especially the thought of G. Leibniz.

He is a member of the Latin-American Leibniz Society and the North American Kant Society. He has published nearly 12 books in different areas of modern philosophy along with 23 book chapters and 17 peer-reviewed articles.

Daniel R. Herbert is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the The University of Sheffield, UK. He has been a lecturer at King's College London. Daniel has explored the relationship between Kant and Peirce and is editing numerous works related to Modern Philosophy, Pragmatism and Idealism.

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The present collection aims to examine this fertile period in the history of philosophy concerning its significance for understanding the relation between theoretical and practical reason, or, relatedly, facts and values. Our contributors have explored different important ways in which both the shor...

17/06/2024

Whether states balance against or with threatening great powers remains an unsolved problem for international relations theory. One school argues that compels minor powers to accommodate threats, while another defends that it elicits balancing instead. With the emergence of potential hegemons in both and — namely and — understanding state alignment is more urgent than ever. This book shows that has been a rare choice in contemporary Asia and Europe. The only states that chose bandwagoning with China or Russia faced both conflicts with third rivals and low levels of U.S. assistance. Going further, I divide bandwagoning between full alignment, survival accommodation, and profit accommodation. Bandwagoners choose among these three options based on the severity of the threat posed by the potential hegemon, the intensity of third conflicts, and the level of U.S. assistance. I test this novel theory against three European (Armenia, Belarus, and Serbia) and four Asian (Cambodia, Myanmar, North Korea, and Pakistan) cases. This study is the first to provide an exhaustive and compelling explanation of bandwagoning fully compatible with and adds to the balancing-bandwagoning debate. Beyond scholarly implications, this research’s findings offer advice for concerned with the changing balance of power in Asia and Europe and how to counter China and Russia’s influence.

Dylan Motin is a Ph.D. candidate majoring in political science at Kangwon National University. He was previously a Marcellus Policy Fellow at the John Quincy Adams Society and a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies. Dylan was named one of the Next Generation Korea Peninsula Specialists at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a Young Leader of the Pacific Forum. His research expertise revolves around international relations theory, and his main interests are balance-of-power theory, great power competition, and Korean affairs.

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Whether states balance against or bandwagon with threatening great powers remains an unsolved problem for international relations theory. One school argues that military power compels minor powers to accommodate threats, while another defends that it elicits balancing instead. With the emergence of....

13/06/2024

Why do we act as we do? Why do we assume that the way of being and behaving in our community is right, good, and common sense? Why do we fail to understand those who are, act, and feel differently? These are some of the questions that this book raises and attempts to answer. This ontology is rooted in the phenomenological tradition but with the innovation of taking the “form of life” as the central ontological unit. We are our form of life, but, as a transcendental-immanent reality, this is not directly equivalent to culture or society; it is rather the “political” realisation in the world of an image of the human being shared by a given community. This overcomes the traditional dualities of individual and society, consciousness and body, facticity and freedom, actuality and possibility. The subject is a subject because it identifies with that image, which is equivalent to the intersubjective consciousness of how one should act and be in the world. This gives rise to multiple forms of life. The latter implies a certain power to be who one wants to be. In this way, the book is an invitation to self-examination, for if our form of life is voluntary (i.e., capitalism), it shatters the illusion that one cannot live in any other way, and places us before the anguished but inevitable task of justifying its adoption or resorting to its abandonment. The book offers a dynamic analysis of human existence as the actualisation of a form of life that is, at the same time, the exercise of a certain power over those who seek to live otherwise, especially when that form is institutionalised by a government as the essence of the national or transnational community.

Daniel Rueda Garrido holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He is the author of ‘Forms of Life and Subjectivity: Rethinking Sartre’s Philosophy’ (2021) and several articles published in international journals such as ‘Sophia, Mind and Society,’ ‘The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion,’ ‘Idealistic Studies,’ ‘Contemporary Philosophy Review,’ ‘Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour,’ ‘International Journal of Social Imaginaries,’ etc.
He is currently a Philosophy teacher at A Levels and International Baccalaureate in Malaga (Spain), and he was previously an Associate Professor at Hebei Normal University (China). He is now an independent researcher.
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Why do we act as we do? Why do we assume that the way of being and behaving in our community is right, good, and common sense? Why do we fail to understand those who are, act, and feel differently? These are some of the questions that this book raises and attempts to answer. This ontology is rooted....

10/06/2024

🇪🇸 'Tomar la palabra' es un análisis basado en la búsqueda de justicia social por medio de la participación sociopolítica, que aborda con cuidado muchos de los temas que determinan y contribuyen a reproducir las situaciones de subalternidad y subordinación a las que se ven sometidas las personas musulmanas en España. Desde un posicionamiento novedoso sobre el islam en el contexto español, al abordar su estudio desde la existencia de musulmanidades diversas, contribuye al avance de los estudios sobre la realidad social y política de las poblaciones musulmanas en nuestro país. El principal objetivo de la autora ha sido identificar los procesos mediante los que las personas musulmanas – o aquellas leídas como tales– tratan de ganar voz y reclamar los derechos que les son negados sistemáticamente. Todo ello con el fin de contribuir a una comprensión más crítica y menos estigmatizadora sobre el islam y las personas musulmanas que viven en España.

Se trata de un trabajo interdisciplinario que parte de una investigación etnográfica llevada a cabo entre 2017 y 2020 en distintas partes del territorio estatal. Puede resultar de gran interés como monografía para profesores y estudiantes de cursos de grado y posgrado en disciplinas como sociología, antropología, ciencias políticas, ciencias de las religiones. Igualmente, será de utilidad como obra de consulta en estudios de subalternidad, feministas y de migraciones o para trabajadores sociales, líderes y comunidades religiosas, instituciones gubernamentales y aquellas personas u organizaciones centradas en los derechos humanos, el diálogo interreligioso o las que, en general, quieren estar informadas sobre el escenario político contemporáneo español.

Johanna M. Lems es profesora en el área de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Anteriormente fue investigadora postdoctoral (programa Margarita Salas) en el Departamento de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Doctora con mención internacional por el Instituto de Ciencias de las Religiones, es miembro del Grupo de Investigación Complutense GRAIS y forma parte del Consejo Editorial de la 'Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos' publicada por la UAM. Tiene publicaciones recientes en revistas como 'Ethnic and Racial Studies', 'Revista Internacional de Sociología y Religiones', así como capítulos de libros publicados por Routledge, Brill, Comares y Tirant lo Blanch. Sus líneas de investigación incluyen islam en España y Europa; esfera pública y subjetividad política; islamofobia y racialización; religión y género.

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'Tomar la palabra' es un análisis basado en la búsqueda de justicia social por medio de la participación sociopolítica, que aborda con cuidado muchos de los temas que determinan y contribuyen a reproducir las situaciones de subalternidad y subordinación a las que se ven sometidas las personas m...

06/06/2024

🌟 Exciting Announcement! 🌟 Join us for the VI Session of the Research Seminar in Integral Personalism with our esteemed author James Beauregard.

📚 Delve into the captivating realm of "Personalist Neuroethics" on Saturday, June 8th, 2024, at 16:30 ESP / 08:30 MEX.

This hybrid event offers the flexibility to attend either in-person or online, ensuring accessibility for all. Admission is free, but registration is required. Don't miss this unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge philosophical discourse. For more information and to register, visit:
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Vernon Press is delighted to announce the upcoming author's talk featuring James Beauregard, esteemed scholar and author of several groundbreaking works in integral personalism. 

03/06/2024

This book discusses the role of human capital and a global mindset for a successful intercultural management of the Society of Jesus in the geographical contexts of and during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Historical data for more than 200 Jesuits has been evaluated and analyzed according to modern management theory. The work is, therefore, an study related to the history of religious orders, European expansion, and trans- or intercultural management and shows how the Jesuit missionaries in Japan and Peru were able to achieve and stimulate a successful expansion of their order’s influence in these regions of the world. While analyzing a historical topic, the book is also of interest to modern-day managers and those who are interested in creating a successful strategy for intercultural management.

Frank Jacob is a Professor of Global History at Nord universitet, Norway. Before, he held positions at The City University of New York and The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Germany. Jacob received a PhD in Japanese Studies from Erlangen University, Germany, in 2012 and a DBA with a focus on intercultural management from the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon III/BSI, Luxembourg in 2021. His main research fields include modern Japanese history, transnational anarchism and revolution theory. Jacob has authored or edited more than 100 books since 2013, and his recent publications with Vernon Press include 'Florentine Ariosto Jones: A Yankee in Switzerland and the Early Globalization of the American System of Watchmaking (2021)'.

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Human Capital, a Global Mindset, and Missionary Work in Japan and Peru during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

29/05/2024

The authors in ‘Lost Kingdom’ grapple with both the catastrophe of mass animal extinction, in which the panoply of earthly life is in the accelerating process of disappearing, and with the mass death of industrial animal agriculture. Both forms of violence against animals cast the as an era of criminality and loss driven by boundless human exceptionalism, forcing a reckoning with and an urgent reimagining of human- relations. Without the sleights of hand that would lump “humanity” into a singular Anthropos of the Anthropocene, the authors recognize the differential nature of human impacts on animal life and the biosphere as a whole, while affirming the complexity of animal worlds and their profound imbrications in human cultures, societies, and industries. Confronting the reality of the Sixth Mass Extinction and mass animal death requires forms of narrativity that draw on traditional genres and disciplines, while signaling a radical break with modern temporalities and norms. Chapters in this volume reflect this challenge, while embodying the interdisciplinary nature of inquiry into non-human animality at the edge of the abyss— , cultural , post-colonial studies, , critical animal studies, , , Anthropocene studies, and studies entwine to illuminate what is arguably the greatest crisis, for all creatures, in the past 65 million years.

Wendy A. Wiseman is a lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. She writes and presents on climate justice, ecocide law and kincentric relationality, the Anthropocene, and the Sixth Mass Extinction and lives in Istanbul.

Burak Kesgin is Assistant Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at Istanbul Beykent University. He teaches and publishes in the areas of social movements, environmental sociology, political economy, and inequality. He is co-editor of 'Traces of the Anthropocene' (2022, in Turkish).

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The authors in ‘Lost Kingdom’ grapple with both the catastrophe of mass animal extinction, in which the panoply of earthly life is in the accelerating process of disappearing, and with the mass death of industrial animal agriculture. Both forms of anthropogenic violence against animals cast the ...

27/05/2024

This cutting edge, timely book is a primary resource for students, faculty, coordinators, and supervisors in the growing field of . This book acts as a single resource that pulls together the background, current status, and future directions related to the relevance of a behavior analytic approach to teaching, assessment, and supervision.
The authors collaborating in this volume are experts at various stages of career development and have a known presence in the field. This combination of theory driven, and high-caliber authors have collaborated to create a one-of-a-kind book drawing from backgrounds of diversity in terms of gender, areas of expertise, and geography. The recent pandemic has resulted in a pivot to remote learning and online supervision; this text will provide an important contribution in terms of understanding how to provide high quality teaching, supervision, and assessment in behavior analysis and among other areas. As the field is moving to increasing standards for programs that correspond to accreditation body standards, this book also provides timely information about how to prepare for this process including cultural competency and ethics, which guide our teaching and practice.
Dr. Andresa A. De Souza, BCBA-D (University of Nebraska Medical Center - UNMC, 2016), is an Assistant Professor in Special Education and Director of the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Graduate Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She earned her Ph.D. in ABA from the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University. Dr. De Souza’s research interests involve the analysis of Skinner’s verbal behavior and the condition to promote generative language, the dissemination of behavior technologies to underserved communities, and the implementation of behavior strategies for effective online teaching.
Dr. Darlene E. Crone-Todd (University of Manitoba, 2002) is a Professor in Psychology at Salem State University. She designed and coordinated the graduate program in Behavior Analysis, and has presented in over 60 symposia at conferences worldwide, including time spent researching and presenting in Brazil. She has published research in peer-reviewed journals including The Behavior Analyst Today, The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, The Psychological Record, and Substance

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This cutting edge, timely book is a primary resource for students, faculty, coordinators, and supervisors in the growing field of behavior analysis. This book acts as a single resource that pulls together the background, current status, and future directions related to the relevance of a behavior an...

23/05/2024

Cantonese is a language prevailing in the Guangdong province of China, Hong Kong, Macau, and ethnic Chinese groups in Southeast Asia and North America. It evolves with the engagements of the authoritarian government and globalization over time. Cantonese in China is special because it remains strong under the constant suppression from the administration and the continual interactions between the natives and migrants. However, the concern about Cantonese dying among the natives has been increasing in recent years. The speaking population, the imposed language policy, and the economy at least determine Cantonese’s life. In particular, the economy is also a window to examine the central-local relations in China due to the leading roles of the Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong, and Macau in China’s economic growth. Therefore, the struggles of local language between the younger generation and the Communist Party via the Internet are exposed. The book intends to explore the rising of a potential language community around the globe that speaks Cantonese by analyzing the usage and images of Cantonese of a popular TV show on YouTube, discussion groups on Baidu Tieba and Facebook, and talk shows on Bilibili with content analysis, interviews, and cases studies.

“Remaking a Global Cantonese Community with Television and Social Media” has something to offer everyone, regardless of age or background. For those residing in mainland China, it’s a journey back in time. Older Cantonese speakers will reminisce about their childhood, with memories of delicious Cantonese food, playful children’s songs, and cherished customs. Even those who aren’t native Cantonese speakers will recall the Cantonese TV shows, movies, and music that colored their youth. Younger readers will find familiar elements in the short videos they currently enjoy. For language preservation advocates, this book sheds light on Cantonese speakers’ efforts to protect their native language and the challenges they face. For readers outside of mainland China, it offers insights into the country’s internal changing landscape, especially grassroots practices and identities. By blending the disciplines of linguistics, political science, and communication, this book provides a broad perspective on how language is intertwined with our sense of belonging.

Simin Li, Cantonese, writer, educator, and researcher. She got her bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and Education in China, a master’s degree in Library and Information Studies in Taiwan and another in Political Science in Canada. Her research interests include international relations of the Asia-Pacific region, identity and neo-nationalism of ethnic Chinese, and elite studies in digital humanities.

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Cantonese (Jyut Jyu) is a language prevailing in the Guangdong province of China, Hong Kong, Macau, and ethnic Chinese groups in Southeast Asia and North America. It evolves with the engagements of the authoritarian government and globalization over time. Cantonese in China is special because it rem...

20/05/2024

This book analyses the dynamic relationship between art and subjective consciousness, following a phenomenological, pragmatist and enactive approach.

It brings out a new approach to the role of the body in , not as a speculative object or symbolic material but as the living source of the . It contains theoretical contributions and case studies taken from various artistic practices ( , , and ), Western and Eastern, the latter concerning China, India and Japan.

These contributions allow us to nourish the debate on embodied cognition and , using theory–philosophy, art history, – and the authors’ personal experience as artists or spectators. According to the Husserlian method of “reduction” and pragmatist introspection, they postulate that listening to bodily sensations–cramps, heartbeats, impulsive movements, eye orientation–can unravel the thread of subconscious experience, both active and affective, that emerge in the encounter between a subject and an artwork, an encounter which, following John Dewey, we deem to be a case study for life in general.

Christine Vial Kayser (PhD, HDR) is an art historian and museum curator (emeritus). She is an Associate researcher with Héritages (CYU) and a member of the Doctoral School 628 - AHSS. Her research relates to the capacity of art to transform representations within an individual and in the collective mind, through embodied, mnemonic, and affective processes, in a global, comparative (East/west context). She works at the crossroads of art theory, , and .

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An East/West dialogue / Un dialogue Orient/Occident

17/05/2024

Lessons from Regional Responses to Security, Health and Environmental Challenges in Latin America explores these three areas in terms of governance challenges post-COVID-19. Editor Ivo Ganchev brin…

16/05/2024

For a long time, quality has been the center of attention in the nonprofit sector, influenced by all kinds of developments in . Due to, among other things, the interference of the government and the increasing competition, all divisions in the nonprofit sector are obliged to work systematically with their quality. Quality has become necessary. However, as more people gain experience with quality assessments, visitations, and accreditations, so does the criticism. This has to do with how quality is assessed and with the criteria that are used. Many questions remain unanswered, and contradictions have not been resolved. Moreover, it is no easy task to have all noses pointing in the same direction. In short, there is still work to be done.
This book broadens the traditional vision of quality and quality assurance to a vision and approach that is compatible with the support of the organization’s missions in the nonprofit sector. Incidentally, we will speak of quality development rather than quality assurance. The use of the term ‘quality development’ hopes to inspire people to look differently at quality and how their organization deals with it. Furthermore, this book provides nonprofit organizations with methodologies and tools that can help in the process of permanent quality development.
The pursuit of quality for nonprofit organizations is approached from a development perspective and a broader social context. This distinguishes it from the traditional quality management manuals. It offers a constructive and appreciative approach that is compatible with the specific mission of various nonprofit organizations (such as education, health care, social work, and government). The approach is also integral because everyone in the organization, as well as the external partners, is involved.

Guido Cuyvers studied , and at the Catholic University of Leuven and obtained a doctorate in criminology with a study on the secondary of victims of crime. During his professional life, he was lecturer, researcher and head of department at Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen (now Thomas More), Department of Social Work. He taught , , organizational science and quality management. His research has mainly focused on the field of hashtag , with a focus on the social inclusion of older people.

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For a long time, quality has been the center of attention in the nonprofit sector, influenced by all kinds of developments in society. Due to, among other things, the interference of the government and the increasing competition, all divisions in the nonprofit sector are obliged to work systematical...

13/05/2024

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