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Testimony, Trust, and Authority develops and defends an interpersonal theory of testimony according to which a speaker's testimony provides an audience with a distinctively second-personal reason for belief....

Observing Bioethics is written by two social scientists who have been participants in and observers of US bioethics since the field's emergence. The book views bioethics appreciatively and critically as a complex phenomenon that is related to advances in modern biology and medicine, and to values and beliefs with which American society has been...

From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & LogueA very wide-ranging book which launches a new theory of poetry translation and        pursues it through readings of poem-translations from across the history of English        literature. It engages with the key debates in translation studies, and offers new        interpretations of major works such as...

The common view of the nineteenth-century pastoral relationship - found in both contemporary popular accounts and 20th-century scholarship - was that women and clergymen formed a natural alliance and enjoyed a particular influence over each other. In Without Benefit of Clergy, Karin Gedge tests this thesis by examining the pastoral relationship...