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Technology and Regulation 2021 Special Issue
Should Data Drive Private Law
2022 || Paperback || Ronald Leenes || Open Press Tilburg University
Technology and Regulation (TechReg) is an international journal of law, technology and society, with an interdisciplinary identity. TechReg provides an online platform for disseminating original research on the legal and regulatory challenges posed by existing and emerging technologies (and their applications) including, but by no means limited to, the Internet and digital technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotics, neurotechnology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, energ...
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Homo Ludens and No End
A Bibliography of International Reflections on Johan Huizinga’s Masterwork
2022 || Paperback || Léon Hanssen || Open Press Tilburg University
Johan Huizinga’s theory of play as set out in his Homo Ludens encouraged many other scholars all over the world to reflect upon play and games in culture. The wish to get an overview of this productive reception is the aim of this open bibliography (open, because reflection on Huizinga is ongoing and updates will be welcomed in next editions). The compiler is Léon Hanssen, an eminent Dutch cultural historian and writer. Hanssen wrote a dissertation on Johan Huizinga (Huizinga en de troost ...
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Basics of American Labour Law
A Brief Description of the Labour Law of the United States of America for the Purpose of Comparative Labour Law (Second version 2022)
2022 || Paperback || Antoine T.J.M. Jacobs || Open Press Tilburg University
Why is American labour law so different from the law in other states? And can we expect in the nearby future changes in the present state of American Labour Law? This textbook tries to find the answer by exploring the background of labour law, the size, geographical situation, population, culture and economic data of the USA.
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Critical and Scientific Thinking
A Short Introduction
2022 || Paperback || Michael Vlerick || Open Press Tilburg University
Critical thinking is one of the biggest hiatuses in our education system. Learning to distinguish sense from nonsense is of great importance in the information age that we live in. In a systematic way, this book helps you to gain insight into, and subsequently eliminate, the most important reasoning errors that we all tend to make. It also helps you to debunk weak and fallacious arguments and unreliable information.
In addition to understanding what critical and scientific thinking entails, y...
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Socioeconomic Deprivation and the Support for Populism
A Study on Individual and Contextual Determinants
2022 || Paperback || Michael Kolander || Open Press Tilburg University
While there is evidence suggesting that an unfavorable socioeconomic status does foster voting in favor of populist parties, multiple previous studies agree that cultural or political concerns surpass the explanatory power of economic insecurity. Nonetheless, economic approaches of populist voting should not be discarded.
Next to the substantial investigation on which aspects of socioeconomic hardship increase support for populism, another objective of this thesis is to illustrate the method...
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Technology And Regulation 2021
Volume 3
2022 || Paperback || Ronald Leenes || Open Press Tilburg University
Technology and Regulation (TechReg) is an international journal of law, technology and society, with an interdisciplinary identity. TechReg provides an online platform for disseminating original research on the legal and regulatory challenges posed by existing and emerging technologies (and their applications) including, but by no means limited to, the Internet and digital technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotics, neurotechnology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, energ...
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Het kritisch literatuur lexicon van de 21e eeuw
2022 || Paperback || Sander Bax || Open Press Tilburg University
Studenten Nederlands die druk aan een paper werkten, scholieren in het middelbaar onderwijs die hun mondeling over de literatuurlijst voorbereidden, journalisten die in allerijl een portret over een schrijver moesten maken, docenten, uitgevers – allemaal hebben ze in het verleden hun toevlucht gezocht bij het Kritisch Literatuur Lexicon, de serie bruine banden met de rugtitel in helder geel die je in vrijwel iedere bibliotheek in Nederland kon vinden.
In die banden bevond zich een losbladig...
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Kritisch en Wetenschappelijk Denken
Een Korte Introductie
2022 || Paperback || Michael Vlerick || Open Press Tilburg University
Kritisch denken is een van de grootste lacunes in ons onderwijs. Zin van onzin leren scheiden is van enorm belang in het informatietijdperk waarin we leven. Dit boek helpt je op systematische wijze inzicht te krijgen in en komaf te maken met de belangrijkste denkfouten die elke mens spontaan maakt. Het helpt je ook drogredenen en onbetrouwbare informatie te ontmaskeren.
Naast inzicht in wat kritisch en wetenschappelijk denken inhoudt, kom je ook meer te weten over wat wetenschap betrouwbaar m...
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The Good of the University
Critical Contributions from the Tilburg Young Academy
2022 || Paperback || Anton Ten Klooster || Open Press Tilburg University || met inkijkexemplaar
Every university is a community of ambitious people. People who love challenges and see new opportunities. A university is part of a society: it tries to understand it to contribute to its wellbeing. How can we do that in today’s world? When can we say that a university is ‘good’? And how can we explain to society what the university is good for? These are the questions that the contributors to this volume tackle in their critical reflections.
The reflection on the university does not t...
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Atlas of European Values
Change and Continuity in Turbulent Times
2022 || Paperback || Loek Halman e.a. || Open Press Tilburg University
Do Europeans really feel European? Do they look at the future Times with confidence or concern? Do they trust each other, and do they show solidarity? How do they think about migration and the refugee influx? Do they want a greener Europe, and at what cost? Are democracy and human rights ingrained in Europe or are they eroding?
A new edition of the Atlas of European Values answers these and other questions related to pressing issues such as identity, welfare, migration, sustainability, solida...