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The Context of Explanation

The Context of Explanation

M. Bunzl

In this book Martin Bunzl considers the prospects for a general and comprehensive account of explanation, given the variety of interests that prompt explanations in science.
International Mergers and Acquisitions Activity Since 1990: ...

International Mergers and Acquisitions Activity Since 1990: ...

Greg N. Gregoriou

There is no reference to this particular acquisition by name, or to any other, although it is clear from Bunzl's 1999 accounts ... Note 10 Own shares £m Investments in subsidiary Total £m undertakings £m Bunzl plc: Beginning of year at cost 1.1 ...
Real History: Reflections on Historical Practice

Real History: Reflections on Historical Practice

Martin Bunzl

In Real History, Martin Bunzl brilliantly succeeds in bringing together two schools of thought at the forefront of the philosophy of history: that of realism and objectivity.
The Aranda’s Pepa: An introduction to Carl Strehlow’s ...

The Aranda’s Pepa: An introduction to Carl Strehlow’s ...

Anna Kenny

In H.G. Penny and M. Bunzl (eds), Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of the Empire. pp. 86–126. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Penny, H.G. and Bunzl, M. 2003. Introduction: rethinking German anthropology, ...
Unmaking the West: "what-if" Scenarios that Rewrite World ...

Unmaking the West: "what-if" Scenarios that Rewrite World ...

Philip Eyrikson Tetlock

Our argument here parallels in some respects that recently advanced by Martin Bunzl, in "Counterfactual History: A User's Guide," American Historical Review 109 (2004): 435-42. We agree with Bunzl that counterfactual reasoning grounded in ...
Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science

Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science

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12, 207–224 (1997) R. Sorensen: Precis of thought experiments, Informal Log. 17 (3), 385–387 (1995) M. Bunzl: Bunzl on Sorensen's thought experiments, Informal Log. 17(3), 389–393 (1995) R. Feldman: Feldman on Sorensen's thought ...
Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Climate Change

Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Climate Change

Martin Bunzl

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental studies, philosophy, politics and sociology as well as policy makers.
Narratives in the Making: Writing the East German Past in ...

Narratives in the Making: Writing the East German Past in ...

Anselma Gallinat

1999b. Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland. Berkeley: University of California Press. ———. 2000. “Introduction: An Anthropology of Postsocialism,” in D. Berdahl, M. Bunzl, and M. Lampland (ed .) ...
The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies

The Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies

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In A. Loomba, S. Kaul, M. Bunzl, A. Burton & J. Esty (Eds.), Postcolonial studies and beyond: 62–79. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Behera, N. C. (2007). Re-imagining IR in India. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 7: 341–368.
The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of ...

The Neuroscientific Turn: Transdisciplinarity in the Age of ...

Melissa M. Littlefield

Hanson, S. J., and M. Bunzl. 2010. Foundational Issues in Human Brain Mapping . Cambridge: MIT Press. Haxby,J.V. 2010. “Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI Data: High-Dimensional Spaces for Neural and Cognitive Representations.
Qualitative Inquiry and the Conservative Challenge

Qualitative Inquiry and the Conservative Challenge

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In K. Hall & M. Bucholtz (Eds.), Gender articulated: Language and the socially constructed self (pp. 169–182). New York ... In A. Loomba, S. Kaul, M. Bunzl, A. Burtin, & J. Esty (Eds.), Postcolonial studies and beyond (pp. 41–61). Durham, NC: ...
History, Theory, Text

History, Theory, Text

Elizabeth A. CLARK

98; Martin Bunzl, Real History (London, 1997), pp. 106–107, 15, also faulting these authors' loose appeal to pragmatism. 84. Lorenz, “Historical Knowledge and Historical Reality,” p. 326, calls for a translation of “internal realism” from the  ...
Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe

Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe

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Berdahl, D. (2000) 'Introduction: An Anthropology of Postsocialism', in D. Berdahl, M. Bunzl and M. Lampland (eds) Altering States. Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan  ...
Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Climate Change

Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Climate Change

Martin Bunzl

References Daniels, Norman 2004.“The Functions of Insurance,” in Mark Rothstein (ed.), Genetics and Life Insurance, Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 119–145. Dicke,Arnold 2004.“The Economics of Risk Selection,” in Mark Rothstein (ed.), Genetics ...
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Naomi Klein

Alan Robock, Martin Bunzl, Ben Kravitz, and Georgiy L. Stenchikov, “A Test for Geoengineering?” Science 327 (2010): 530; Alan Robock, Luke Oman, and Georgiy L. Stenchikov, “Regional Climate Responses to Geoengineering with Tropical ...
Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption

Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption

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The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption Anthony Appiah, Martin Bunzl. PUBLIC POLICY | PHILOSOPHY | ECONOMICS If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million  ...

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