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Mary Barton goes to London : Elizabeth Gaskell, Stage Adaptation and Working Class Audiences
(2011)An examination of the first stage production in 1850 of Elizabeth Gaskell's controversial industrial novel. Adapted for the audience of the Victoria Theatre, London (the `Old Vic') the article discusses the censorship ... -
Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural : Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)"Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural" explores the relationship between the Romantic preoccupation with visionary kinds of experience and early nineteenth-century medical theories of hallucination and the ... -
Charity and Poverty in England, c.1680-1820 : Wild and Visionary Schemes
(Manchester University Press, 2009-11-30)This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England, with an eye to some of the odder manifestations of charity and poor relief. Whether discussing proposals for vast inland colonies or cosy firesides, ... -
Joys of the Cottage : Labourers’ Houses, Hovels and Huts in Britain and the British Colonies, 1770-1830
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)What uses, meanings and rituals did plebeian occupants create around their dwellings and gardens? The following discussion offers some tentative answers to such questions. Labouring and elite interests were not congruent. ... -
Kierkegaard's Mirrors : Interest, Self and Moral Vision
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)Beginning with the structural account of consciousness offered in Johannes Climacus, this book develops a new phenomenological interpretation of what Kierkegaard calls 'interest': a self-reflexive mode of thought, vision ... -
Duties to the Dead? : Earnest Imagination and Remembrance
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Cora Diamond and the Ethical Imagination
(2012-07-05)In much of her writing, Cora Diamond stresses the role of the imagination in awakening the sense of our humanity. She subtly unthreads the operations of the ethical imagination in literature, but deplores its absence in ... -
What's Missing in Episodic Self-Experience? : A Kierkegaardian Response to Galen Strawson
(2010)Galen Strawson has articulated a spectrum of 'temporal temperaments' populated at one end by 'Diachronics,' who experience their selves (understood as a 'present mental entity') as persisting across time, and at the other ... -
Is narrative identity four-dimensionalist?
(2012)The claim that selves are narratively constituted has attained considerable currency in both analytic and continental philosophy. However, a set of increasingly standard objections to narrative identity are also emerging. ... -
Fearful asymmetry : Kierkegaard’s search for the direction of time
(2010)The ancient problem of whether our asymmetrical attitudes towards time are justified (or normatively required) remains a live one in contemporary philosophy. Drawing on themes in the work of McTaggart, Parfit, and Heidegger, ... -
The Philosophy of Information
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The informational nature of personal identity
(2011)In this paper, I present an informational approach to the nature of personal identity. In "Plato and the problem of the chariot", I use Plato's famous metaphor of the chariot to introduce a specific problem regarding the ... -
A defence of constructionism : philosophy as conceptual engineering
(2011)This article offers an account and defence of constructionism, both as a metaphilosophical approach and as a philosophical methodology, with references to the so-called maker's knowledge tradition. Its main thesis is that ... -
Fictional Branching Time?
(Springer Nature Link, 2013)Some fictions seem to involve branching time, where one time-series ‘splits’ into two, or two time-series ‘fuse’ into one. We provide a new framework for thinking about these fictional representations: not as representations ... -
Fatalism and the Future
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Can a Christian be a friend? : God, friendship and love of neighbor
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Stellar x-ray sources in the chandra cosmos survey
(2010-12-10)We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of a sample of solar- and late-type field stars identified in the Chandra Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), a deep (160 ks) and wide (∼0.9 deg ) extragalactic survey. The ... -
Herschel-ATLAS : Multi-wavelength SEDs and physical properties of 250 μm selected galaxies at z <0.5
(2012-11-21)We present a pan-chromatic analysis of an unprecedented sample of 1402 250 μm selected galaxies at z < 0.5 (z-=0.24) from the Herschel-ATLAS survey. We complement our Herschel 100-500μm data with UV-K-band photometry from ... -
An efficient method-of-lines simulation procedure for organic semiconductor devices.
(2009-03-01)We describe an adaptive grid method-of-lines (MOL) solution procedure for modelling charge transport and recombination in organic semiconductor devices. The procedure we describe offers an efficient, robust and versatile ... -
Simulations of Cosmic Chemical Enrichment
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008)We simulate cosmic chemical enrichment with a hydrodynamical Model including supernova and hypernova feedback. We find that the majority of stars in present-day massive, galaxies formed in much Smaller galaxies at high ...