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Synchronic Unity Without a Self
Authors: Chadha Monima 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
The manifest fact of synchronic unity, that is, that a single experience often seems to be composed of multiple features and multiple objects, was lodged as a key objection to the Buddhist no-self view by Nyāya philosophers in the classical Indian tradition. This chapter argues that classical responses in the Buddhist tradition to this objection are not satisfactory. On behalf of the Abhidharma philosophers, a new solution is offered by appealing to the fact that there are different kinds of synchronic unity and that once we distinguish between these, the Nyāya argument for the self can be rebutted. The question remains though whether the manifest fact of synchronic unity implicates the sense of self as the subject of experiences. It is argued that is not the case; synchronic unity is best understood as unity of representations that can be accounted for by perceptual representations.
No-Self and the Phenomenology of Agency
Authors: Chadha Monima 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Abhidharma philosophers argue that there is no need to postulate an agent of action because causal connections among series of mental and physical states are adequate to explain mental and physical actions. This denial of agency is at odds with the Buddhist doctrine of karma which implies some degree of free will, moral responsibility, and the possibility of salvation. In this chapter the author follows Vasubandhu in suggesting a way out of this quandary. The Abhidharma philosopher is left with the burden of explaining the phenomenological sense of agency. It is argued here, on behalf of the Abhidharma philosophers, that there is nothing it is like to be an agent in the sense that there is no experiential phenomenology associated with agency.
Numerical Methods for Field-Theoretic Simulations
Authors: Delaney Fredrickson , Delaney Kris T. 
Published: March 2023

AbstractChapter 5 provides an introduction to the numerical methods used to obtain mean-field solutions and conduct field-theoretic simulations of the field theory models developed in Chapters 2 and 3. The chapter discusses algorithms that exploit efficient FFT-based field operations and balance stability and accuracy. Mean-field solutions are obtained by deterministic relaxation, while the sign problem inherent to classical and quantum field theories mandates the use of complex Langevin sampling methods in stochastic field-theoretic simulations. Practical guidelines for conducting simulations, assessing errors, and troubleshooting are provided.
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea
Authors: Plotz John 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She sets readers adrift among worlds: peripatetic but somehow at home. Somehow, she sublimely mixes comfort with revelatory, emancipatory unsettlement. Small wonder that she has inspired later speculative writers, among them Neil Gaiman, Kim Stanley Robinson, N. K. Jemisin. Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea aims to do justice to both Le Guin’s passionate simplicity and her revenant complexity. It also makes the case for the boldness and coldness of the often-overlooked later three books of Earthsea. In Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea, The Other Wind (written decades after A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, and The Farthest Shore were published between 1968 and 1972) she turned a cold eye, a dragon’s searching eye, back on the comfortable green world she herself had made decades earlier. They unfold a distinctive vision of the writer’s task: world-building as responsibility, plus openness. Call it invitational realism. She builds a world that leaves the real task of building, of creating, of imagining, and of reimagining, with her readers. Drawing on my own crooked path—from a DC childhood to teaching in Prague to San Francisco journalism to graduate school and then parenthood—Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea maps the ways that readers young and old find in Earthsea a kind of scholar’s stone, a delightfully mutable surface that rewards recurrent contemplation.
The Referendum
Authors: Russell Meg , James Lisa 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
This chapter focuses on the Brexit referendum and its campaign, result, and immediate political aftermath. It explores the role of referendums in the British parliament in terms of their interaction with the constitution and parliament. The referendum result triggered a period of significant upheaval and infighting within the main political parties. Both Conservatives and Labour were plunged immediately into leadership contests following the referendum result. After David Cameron’s resignation as Prime Minister, the Conservatives chose Theresa May as their new leader. On the opposition side, Labour MPs attempted and failed to remove Jeremy Corbyn as their party leader. The chapter elaborates on the referendums in UK politics, referencing Cameron’s hope of a promised negotiation with the EU.
Theresa May and the Triggering of Article 50
Authors: Russell Meg , James Lisa 
Published: March 2023

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This chapter looks into the early responses of parliament to the referendum result during the early months of Theresa May’s premiership. As the new Prime Minister, May needed to assemble a Cabinet to work on a Brexit strategy, which would be difficult due to the absence of a blueprint and lack of certainty over the government’s decision. However, May struggled to resolve the rifts within the Conservative Party, while parliament’s place in Brexit was highly contested. The chapter discusses the role of MPs’ local representatives in the Brexit debates following dilemmas over prioritization of local constituency opinion, the national referendum result, and personal views. It also looks into parliament’s role in triggering the two-year negotiating period provided by Article 50, its subsequent role in overseeing negotiations with the EU, and its role in approving the final Brexit deal.
Health Policies and Health Care in the Context of Neoliberal Globalisation
Authors: Sanders David , De Ceukelaire Wim , Hutton Barbara 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
This chapter examines what has happened since the late 1970s in the struggle for accessible and affordable health care for all, within the context of neoliberal globalisation. The health care reform that was promoted by the evolving global health governance structure, as a subset of conservative neoliberal economic policies, gave rise to the privatisation and commercialisation of health care—from Health for All to health care that people could afford. While there has been some progress in some health outcomes in some countries, others have been left behind, particularly the least developed regions of the world, where extreme inequalities have been worsened by neoliberal globalisation. In October 2018, world leaders met in Astana, Kazakhstan, to renew a commitment to Primary Health Care as a ‘cornerstone’ to achieving universal health care. An alternative statement to the Astana Declaration was put forward by health activists, reaffirming civil society’s commitment to Comprehensive Primary Health Care in pursuit of health and well-being for all and to achieve equity in health outcomes globally and nationally.
Stoics on Stuff
Authors: Sherman Nancy 
Published: March 2023

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The ancient Stoics force us to rethink our attachment to cultural objects and our valuation of them as a central part of flourishing. Pushing the Socratic view to an extreme, they hold that virtue alone is sufficient for happiness. External goods, including cultural artifacts and edifices, the historic and ritual monuments of a culture or religion, are classified as “indifferents,” to be preferred rather than dispreferred, but themselves not the kinds of things that can make or break our happiness. The views strikes many of us as inhumane and an expression of the overly austere side of Stoicism. Still, the Stoic view gives us space to wonder if we don’t at times fetishize material stuff, including even ritual sites invested with history and the long-standing practices of a culture.
The Earl of Leicester, the Protestant Cause, and the Failure of English State Building in the Netherlands
Authors: Smuts R. Malcolm 
Published: March 2023

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In 1585 Elizabeth reluctantly agreed to send an English army under the earl of Leicester to the Netherlands. Many Dutch believed they needed not only military assistance but also a strong leader capable of creating a more efficient system of state authority, and they cast Leicester in this role by naming him governor general of the United Provinces. Elizabeth, who had refused an offer of sovereignty over the Netherlands, reacted furiously to this appointment, undermining Leicester’s credibility among the Dutch and rendering him acutely sensitive to criticism, especially from other Englishmen, that might further damage his standing with the queen. Leicester also soon became embroiled in rancorous disputes with Dutch politicians and generals, notably Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Maurice of Nassau. His expansion of his army well beyond the level that Elizabeth and the Dutch had agreed to support, in an effort to take the offensive against Spanish forces, compounded his political difficulties, contributing to severe problems in paying his troops and the near collapse of the Anglo-Dutch alliance by the autumn of 1587. Leicester’s expedition represented the high-water mark and ultimate failure of efforts by an English Protestant state to extend its authority beyond the realm’s borders in the service of a wider Protestant cause. Fortunately Philip II’s decision to send the Armada and his fleet’s defeat largely undid the resulting damage.
King James’s Peace, the Laws of the Realms, and the Forging of a United Kingdom?
Authors: Smuts R. Malcolm 
Published: March 2023

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The chapter re-examines James’s self-presentation after 1603 as a Rex Pacificus intent on promoting internal and external peace, in part through the integration of his two British kingdoms by a union of their laws and institutions. He saw this project as a providentially ordained goal that flowed naturally from the union of the two British crowns in his person and bloodline. But his attempt to achieve it through legislation famously provoked fierce opposition from English who feared that any tampering with their laws would lead to absolutism. It is argued that this controversy stemmed not only from fear that James, as a foreign king, might try to introduce arbitrary government, but also from pre-existing tensions aroused by the expansion of royal authority during the late sixteenth century that had parallels elsewhere in Europe, especially in France. English sensitivity to arbitrary violations of the common law further complicated the already difficult task of increasing royal revenues, weakening the crown’s position in international affairs. But James recognized that in most other respects common law procedures served his purposes effectively and refrained from tampering with them. After the failure of the union project he attempted to promote a more gradual convergence between his three kingdoms by employing different methods rooted in both English and Scottish traditions that affected not only formal legal and institutional arrangements but also the different ways in which power worked on the ground. A concluding section of the chapter examines these differences and how they required distinct methods for sustaining and expanding royal authority.
Aestheticizing Sexual Modernity
Authors: Psomiades Kathy Alexis 
Published: March 2023

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This chapter turns to a rival and double of primitive marriage: Darwinian sexual selection. It shows how sexual selection supplements liberal modernity stories about the economic and the political by inflecting them with the aesthetics of desire on the one hand and the eugenics of reproductive outcome on the other. Darwin’s contribution to the sexualizing of liberal political theory is his sexualizing and racializing of the concept of the aesthetic. Historically, the aesthetic operated in political philosophy to supplement a theory of rational voluntary association with an embodied affective community of taste. But in traditional aesthetics, sexual desire had to be distinguished from aesthetic appreciation. Darwin’s sexualizing of the aesthetic did away with this distinction, and put sexual desire itself into the aesthetic’s timeless purposeful purposelessness, separating it conceptually from reproduction. Both aesthetic and eugenic marriage plots are interested in this separation. Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady and Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins use the story of feminine sexual agency to different ends, but both invoke the aesthetic and the eugenic to rethink sexual modernity.
Criminal Testimonial Injustice
Authors: Lackey Jennifer 
Published: March 2023

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Through a detailed analysis that draws on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, this book shows that, from the very beginning of the American criminal legal process in interrogation rooms to its final stages in front of parole boards, testimony is extracted from individuals through processes that are coercive, manipulative, or deceptive. This testimony is then unreasonably regarded as representing the testifiers’ truest or most reliable selves. With chapters ranging from false confessions and eyewitness misidentifications to recantations from victims of sexual violence and expressions of remorse from innocent defendants at sentencing hearings, it is argued that there is a distinctive epistemic wrong being perpetrated against suspects, defendants, witnesses, and victims. This wrong involves brute State power targeting the epistemic agency of its citizens, extracting false testimony that is often life-shattering, and rendering the victims in question complicit in their own undoing. It is concluded that it is only through understanding what it means to respect the epistemic agency of each participant in the criminal legal system that we can truly grasp what justice demands and, in so doing, to reimagine what is possible.
Admissions of Guilt and Expressions of Remorse: Sentencing and Parole Hearings
Authors: Lackey Jennifer 
Published: March 2023

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This chapter shows that in the final stages of the criminal legal process, admissions of guilt and expressions of remorse are extracted from those who are innocent at sentencing hearings and in front of parole boards. The right of allocution, which permits a criminal defendant to speak at his own sentencing hearing, may be thought to provide defendants with a robust role to play in their destinies. But the reality is that defendants are told not only what not to say at such hearings, but also what to say and how to say it, and failure to comply often results in more time behind bars. Moreover, once admissions of guilt and expressions of remorse are extracted, they play a normatively oversized role in sentencing. Similar issues arise at parole hearings, where assertions of innocence and the failure to admit guilt and express remorse are significant barriers to being granted parole.
Sovereign Powers in Crisis Resolution
Authors: Iversen Astrid 
Published: March 2023

AbstractChapters 3–5 of this book map and establish the core content intercreditor equity rules. However, a number of other rules belonging to the broader legal framework governing sovereign debt also affect the question of intercreditor equity. Chapter 2 discusses rules concerning: (i) the governing law of a sovereign debt instrument, (ii) the jurisdiction of courts, and (iii) sovereign immunity as three such essential sets of rules that influence intercreditor equity issues. More specifically, they influence whether foreign courts will accept jurisdiction over a sovereign debt restructuring dispute. They affect the ability of creditors to enforce their intercreditor equity rights in the context of a restructuring, as well as the outer boundaries within which the state must design a restructuring offer. Knowledge of these rules is necessary to understand intercreditor equity disputes.
International Law Protection of Creditors Holding Debt Instruments Governed by Domestic Law
Authors: Iversen Astrid 
Published: March 2023

AbstractChapter 5 concerns international law protection of creditors holding debt instruments governed by domestic law. International law can restrict the way in which a sovereign debtor treats its creditors holding debt governed by domestic law during a sovereign debt restructuring in several ways. First, sovereign debtors may be obliged to treat their creditors according to minimum standards under customary international law, which contains rules on due treatment of foreigners and their property. This is normally referred to as the ‘international minimum standard’ and is discussed in Section 5.2. Second, a sovereign debtor may have promised a certain standard of treatment to its creditors in an international treaty. Rights in international investment agreements (IIAs) are discussed in Section 5.3, while Section 5.4 examines requirements under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Creditors have no specific rights to be treated equally by sovereign debtors under customary international law, IIAs, or the ECHR. However, all these rules potentially provide creditors with a certain level of protection against discriminatory treatment. The chapter considers whether the rights of creditors are protected under the different regimes that govern sovereign debt restructurings, as well as to what extent creditors are protected (substantive protection) and how this protection relates to the question of intercreditor equity. International law subjects may also hold debt instruments governed by domestic law. Creditors of domestic law governed debt instruments who are themselves subjects of international law are not normally protected by the international law provisions discussed in this chapter.
Hamlet’s Book
Authors: Tregear Ted 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
This chapter turns to a play written in the wake of Shakespeare’s anthologizing, and published in 1603 by the same stationer as many of the anthologies: Hamlet. The play’s prehistory is marked by its associations with commonplacing, from Seneca’s sententiae to the ‘manie good sentences’ Thomas Nashe associated with an earlier version of the play. This chapter shows that sententia also had a longer history within tragic theory, tracing back to Aristotle’s Poetics, where (in Latin translations) it denotes the thinking contained within drama. Shakespeare’s play is preoccupied with how to stage thinking. Yet it maintains a pronounced ambivalence towards the sententiae that were its standard form, an ambivalence that registers not just Shakespeare’s reflections on his own anthologizing, but the filiations his play negotiates with the tragic tradition. The chapter reads Hamlet’s avoidance of sententiousness in his soliloquies, and finds Shakespeare experimenting with a new representation of thinking onstage.
Conclusion
Authors: Tregear Ted 
Published: March 2023

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The conclusion recapitulates some key arguments of the book through a reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. It offers some brief speculations on what happened after Shakespeare’s anthology period, and how the experience of being anthologized drove him to new ways of writing. It touches on other works that might be read in relation to anthologizing, including Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Macbeth, and Cymbeline. And it reads the 1609 Sonnets through their peculiarly extractable couplets, which seem at times to wander free from their preceding poems, and which, in Sonnet 126, hint at a poetic afterlife—for Shakespeare and his beloved—at the hands of anthologizing readers.
Visual Complex Analysis
Authors: Needham Tristan , Penrose Roger 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
The fundamental advance in the new 25th Anniversary Edition is that the original 501 diagrams now include brand-new captions that fully explain the geometrical reasoning, making it possible to read the work in an entirely new way―as a highbrow comic book! The new edition openly challenges the current dominance of purely symbolic logical reasoning by using new, visually accessible arguments to explain the truths of elementary complex analysis. The first seven chapters discuss geometry and complex arithmetic; complex functions as transformations; Möbius transformations and inversion; differentiation and the amplitwist concept; non-Euclidean geometry; and winding numbers and topology. The book then turns to an examination of complex integration and Cauchy’s Theorem; Cauchy’s Formula and its applications; vector fields; and flows and harmonic functions. To provoke curiosity, exercises can be found at the end of each chapter, allowing readers to develop considerable computational skills. These exercises also illustrate how geometric thinking can often replace lengthy calculation.
Sequential Sovereignty
Authors: Ferrara Alessandro 
Published: March 2023

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Chapter 5, ‘Sequential Sovereignty: On Representing “the People” and the Electorate’, elucidates the distinctive meaning of ‘representation’ in the two cases of representing the people and the electorate. After a critical reconstruction of Hanna Pitkin’s theory of representation as ‘acting for’ (Section 1), and a critical appraisal of the main recent contributions to representation theory by Jane Mansbridge, Michael Saward, and Andrew Rehfeld (Section 2), the chapter argues that, in accordance with the nemo judex principle, the representatives of the electorate (who may legitimately lean towards the delegate pole of the delegate–trustee spectrum of substantive representation) cannot be entrusted with assessing the consistency of the will of the voters and the ‘will of the people’ recorded in the living constitution. Bracketing the question whether the will of the transgenerational people can be represented by non-judicial institutions (but engaging Samuel Freeman’s proposal for a ‘non-judicial’ constitutional court as ‘conservator of the constitution’), Section 3 argues that in judicial review a constitutional court represents the transgenerational people as a trustee and assesses the alignment of the people’s will with that of the electorate. Failure to secure such alignment or acting as a delegate of the electorate arguably reinforces a serial, as opposed to sequential, pattern of popular democratic sovereignty (theorized by Rousseau and Jefferson, hijacked today by populists) and, consequently, contributes to three negative outcomes, described as the ‘wanton republic’, the ‘indistinct republic’, and the ‘underdetermined polity’.
Red Star over the Black Sea
Authors: Meyer James H. 
Published: March 2023

Abstract
Red Star Over the Black Sea tells the story of Nâzım Hikmet and his generation. Nâzım Hikmet (1902–63) is best-known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951. Born at the turn of the twentieth century and coming of age in the early 1920s, the women and men of Nâzım Hikmet’s generation were the last of the Ottomans. Children of empire, they had grown up amid an era of porous frontiers. By the time this generation had reached its third decade, however, the doors had already begun to close behind them. Drawing upon previously untapped archival materials and personal papers from Moscow, Istanbul, Amsterdam, and Washington, DC, this book tells the story of Nâzım Hikmet and his generation.