A methodology for evaluating and comparing the effectiveness of international regimes is developed and applied to a successful example of such a regime.

In Discovering Complexity, William Bechtel and Robert Richardson examine two heuristics that guided the development of mechanistic models in the life sciences: decomposition and localization.

An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don’t so much read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations.

An ecopsychology that integrates our totemic selves--our kinship with a more than human world--with our technological selves.

An argument that there are three kinds of English grammatical objects, each with different syntactic properties.

Investigations into how technologies became peculiar forms of politics in an expanded geography of the Cold War.

Original essays by leading scholars consider the environment from biological and ethical perspectives.

The concept of sacrifice has been curiously unexamined in both activist and academic conversations about environmental politics, and this book is the first to confront it directly.

Allen Thompson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University. Jeremy Bendik-Keymer is Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of The Ecological Life: Discovering Citizenship and a Sense of Humanity.

A philosopher argues there is an ethical imperative to provide psychotherapy to depressed patients because the insights gained from it promote autonomy.