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Character and Causation : Hume's Philosophy of Action
(Routledge, 2019-08-22)
In the first ever book-length treatment of David Hume’s philosophy of action, Constantine Sandis brings together seemingly disparate aspects of Hume’s work to present an understanding of human action that is much richer ...
From Deed to Word: gapless and kink-free Enactivism
(2019-04-30)
In their most recent book, Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content (MIT 2017), Dan Hutto and Eric Myin claim to give a complete and gapless naturalistic account of cognition, but it comes with a kink. The kink being ...
Digital Archives Built by Students for Students : Inherited Learning at University of Hertfordshire
(JISC, 2018-09-01)
Inherited learning is the latest stage of a programme to develop digital history methods in the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Hertfordshire’s history department. Involving more members of staff than before ...
Masculinities, Wallpaper, and Crafting Domestic Space within the University, 1795-1914
(2018-09)
During renovations in the late 1990s, a ‘wallpaper sandwich’—made up of twelve preserved layers of wallpaper—was removed from the wall of a student room at Peterhouse College, at the University of Cambridge. This sandwich, ...
Fashioning Consumers : Ackermann’s Repository of Arts and the Cultivation of the Female Consumer
(Edinburgh University Press, 2018-01-31)
Consumption has served as one of the key explanatory frameworks for economic and social change in eighteenth-century Britain. The influence of consumption on debates surrounding political and moral economy has been undeniable, ...
Cold War Sport, Film and Propaganda : A Comparative Analysis of the Superpowers
(2017-04-26)
Films and sports played central roles in Cold War popular culture. Each helped set ideological agendas domestically and internationally while serving as powerful substitutes for direct superpower conflict. This article ...
From Zero to Hero: : The CIA at the Movies Today
(2017-01-13)
This article examines the production, content, and public reception of Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012) and Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012). The two Oscar-winning films are set within the context of the Central Intelligence ...
Digital in the Undergraduate History Curriculum : Spotlight on the Digital Case Study
(2016-11-22)
The use of digital methods in historical research is now well established, and part of the common diet for graduate students. However ways of introducing such approaches and their benefits to undergraduates are less well ...
The juice is in the detail : An affordance-based view of talking therapies
(2015-04-22)
The burgeoning interest in enactive paradigms of perception and cognition offers an opportunity to reconsider how we conceive psychotherapy – ‘talking cures’ as functioning. In the past many therapy modes have focused on ...