R Bradley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 37919 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R Bradley |
| NOMBRES | R |
| APELLIDO | Bradley |
| FIRMA | BRADLEY R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2184-7844 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Catastrophe insurance decision making when the science is uncertain
Insurers draw on sophisticated models for the probability distributions over losses associated with catastrophic events that are required to price insurance policies. But prevailing pricing methods don’t factor in the ambiguity around model-based projections that derive from the relative paucity of data about extreme events. I argue however that most current theories of decision making under ambiguity only partially support a solution to the chal…
Fairness, ambiguity and dynamic consistency
Considerations of dynamic inconsistency have figured prominently in debates over the rationality of preferences that violate the separability conditions characteristic of expected utility theory. These debates have mostly focused on risk- and ambiguity averse preferences, but analogous considerations apply to preferences for fairness. We revisit these debates in the context of a specific hypothesis regarding the violations of separability by such…
Chance as a Guide to Life
When choosing between actions having the same two possible outcomes, we should choose the act for which the conditional chance of the preferred outcome, given its performance, is higher. This simple principle is, I argue, both a basic condition of instrumental rationality and the core of our conception of chance. To support this claim, I show that it in the presence of very weak rationality conditions on choice, the principle implies (1) a versio…
Le Baleinier Asia (1856)
The Principal Principle and the contingent a priori
In Chapter 6 of Objects of Credence , Anna Mahtani argues that the opacity of credence raises difficulties for the Principal Principle and proposes a revised principle relating credence and chance that avoids it. In this comment on her book, I both defend Mahtani’s proposed principle against a charge of triviality and argue that the opacity of belief does not threaten the role of chance in guiding credence
Million dollar questions
Models of collective deliberation often assume that the chief aim of a deliberative exchange is the sharing of information. In this paper, we argue that an equally important role of deliberation is to draw participants’ attention to pertinent questions, which can aid the assembly and processing of distributed information by drawing deliberators’ attention to new issues. The assumption of logical omniscience renders classical models of agents' inf…
Fairness and risk attitudes
According to a common judgement, a social planner should often use a lottery to decide which of two people should receive a good. This judgement undermines one of the best-known arguments for utilitarianism, due to John C. Harsanyi, and more generally undermines axiomatic arguments for utilitarianism and similar views. In this paper we ask which combinations of views about (a) the social planner’s attitude to risk and inequality, and (b) the subj…
Conditionals
Whether I take some action that aims at desired consequence C depends on whether or not I take it to be true that if I so act, I will bring C about and that if I do not, I will fail to. And the action will succeed if and only if my beliefs are true. We argue that two theses follow: (I) To believe a conditional is to be disposed to infer its consequent from the truth of its antecedent, and (II) The conditional is true iff the inference would not m…
Attitudes, deliberation and decisions
In this paper I discuss the challenges of several authors to the claims I make in Decision Theory with a Human Face regarding the relation between preference and choice, the nature of conditional desire, the semantics of conditionals, attitudes to chances and their role in individuating prospects, belief change under growing awareness and choice under ambiguity
Found architecture
The practice of field archaeology depends on the ability to distinguish between cultural and natural features of the landscape; the same is true of heritage management. Early antiquarians found it difficult to maintain this distinction before the development of the discipline of geology, and prehistoric communities may have experienced similar problems. That is not surprising since the distinction between nature and culture is a recent developmen…
Multi-isotope evidence for cattle droving at Roman Worcester
Methane Leaks from North American Natural Gas Systems
Methane emissions from U.S. and Canadian natural gas systems appear larger than official estimates.
Of Human Remains and Weapons in the Neighbourhood of London’
A number of injuries were observed in a recent examination of 150 Thames ‘river skulls’. Eight of these, exhibiting both healed and unhealed blunt force trauma, were sampled for AMS 14C dating. The results span the Middle Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age/Romano-British period, with the majority falling within the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age. Given the potential time-span involved, this clustering is striking—particularly as it is consistent wit…
The earth, the sky and the water's edge
There have been two kinds of study of ancient beliefs in the earlier prehistory of Scandinavia. One considers the impact of ideas which originated further to the south and east. It considers a cosmology based on the movements of the sun. A second tradition develops out of the ethnography of the circumpolar region and combines archaeological evidence with the beliefs of hunter-gatherers. It postulates the existence of a three-tier cosmology in whi…
Midsummer and Midwinter in the Rock Carvings of South Scandinavia
The article considers the light shed on ancient religion by comparative linguistics and the analysis of visual images. Its starting point is the Bronze Age 'Sun Chariot' from Trundholm in Denmark, which is considered in both Flemming Kaul's book Ships on Bronzes and Martin West's Indo-European Poetry and Myth. The ideas of these two writers are discussed in conncection with the evidence of prehistoric rock carvings in South Scandinavia. The artic…
Architecture, Imagination and the Neolithic World
It is difficult enough to discuss the character of human creativity in the past, but it is doubly difficult to do so for the Neolithic period. That is because the very concept of ‘Neolithic’ is so difficult to pin down. It is a term that has often changed its meaning (Thomas 1993). Like ‘culture’, the word ‘Neolithic’ means many different things. For nineteenth-century scholars it defined a technology, a New Stone Age, distinguished from the Pala…
Anti-Semitism in America. Vol. 6
Book Review| October 01 1999 Anti-Semitism in America. Vol. 6 Anti-Semitism in America. Vol. 6, Jeffrey S. Gurock. Richard Bradley Richard Bradley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (1999) 19 (1): 100–102. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502522 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard Bradley; Anti-Semitism in America. Vol. 6. Jou…
Reader in Archaeological Theory
Reader in Archaeological Theory: Post-Processual and Cognitive Approaches. Edited by David S. Whitley." Archaeological Journal, 156(1), pp. 447–448
Roger Backhouse, Explorations in Economic Methodology
Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries
A compilation of paleoclimate records from lake sediments, trees, glaciers, and marine sediments provides a view of circum-Arctic environmental variability over the last 400 years. From 1840 to the mid-20th century, the Arctic warmed to the highest temperatures in four centuries. This warming ended the Little Ice Age in the Arctic and has caused retreats of glaciers, melting of permafrost and sea ice, and alteration of terrestrial and lake ecosys…
Liddington Castle and the Battle of Badon
Small-scale excavations in 1976 demonstrated that the hillfort of Liddington Castle was first defended in the Late Bronze Age/Earliest Iron Age, though there had been earlier use of the hilltop. The initial defences were of timber and turf, later enlarged to a more massive dump rampart; there was evidence of at least two or three phases in these works. In the interior of the fort, a shaft of uncertain date was located, and a small pit or emplacem…
Predicting the Local Economic Effects of Proposed Trip-Reduction Rules
The United States 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments set aggressive goals for state-level compliance and mandates for the use of employer trip-reduction (ETR) programs for certain regions. San Diego County, California, has responded to this mandate with its own trip-reduction regulation. The direct effects of the trip-reduction regulation fall into three categories, as follows: changes in spending, changes in costs, and changes in consumer amenities. …
Australian Rock Art
Death and the harvest
Ashley Lemke
Hoarding, recycling and the consumption of prehistoric metalwork
This paper discusses the relationship between two types of metal deposit dating from the first millennium BC: finds of elaborate artefacts in rivers and similar locations; and the ‘non‐ritual’ hoards found on dry land, which sometimes contain scrap metal. It seems likely that fine bronzes were being sacrificed at an increasing rate during this period. Since the metal was rarely of local origin, the supply of bronze came under strain and more mate…
Of Human Remains and Weapons in the Neighbourhood of London’
A number of injuries were observed in a recent examination of 150 Thames ‘river skulls’. Eight of these, exhibiting both healed and unhealed blunt force trauma, were sampled for AMS 14C dating. The results span the Middle Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age/Romano-British period, with the majority falling within the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age. Given the potential time-span involved, this clustering is striking—particularly as it is consistent wit…
The human uses of flint and chert
The earth, the sky and the water's edge
There have been two kinds of study of ancient beliefs in the earlier prehistory of Scandinavia. One considers the impact of ideas which originated further to the south and east. It considers a cosmology based on the movements of the sun. A second tradition develops out of the ethnography of the circumpolar region and combines archaeological evidence with the beliefs of hunter-gatherers. It postulates the existence of a three-tier cosmology in whi…
Rock Physics and the Neolithic Axe Trade in Great Britain
This paper is concerned with the products of a number of Neolithic quarries in highland Britain. It investigates the claim that the scale of axe distribution was partly the result of social factors which resulted in these artefacts gaining an added value in areas remote from their sources. One case study considers the sequence of production in Cumbria, in relation to the tensile strength of the rock quarried in different parts of the region. It s…
Excavation and pollen analysis on a bell barrow at ascot, berkshire
Excavations in the Middle Ward Mont Orgueil, Gorey, Jersey
The few diggings on a small scale which have been made during the past twenty years have sufficed, nevertheless, to establish the fact that the promontory upon which the Castle stands has had its human inhabitants, off and on, ever since mid-Palaeolithic times and that in the soil which partly clothes it, evidences of their presence lay or lie.N. V. L. Rybot, 1950
A Bronze Age barrow cemetery, and associated settlement at Roxton, Bedfordshire
The excavation of a cropmark complex (TL157535) on the flood plain of the Great Ouse concentrated on the examination of five ring-ditches and parts of a system of associated rectilinear enclosures and other features.Although three of the ring-ditches surrounded no surviving burial, all could be shown to be the surviving structures of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery. Carbon dates from the two surviving urned primary cremations gave a construction dat…
Found architecture
The practice of field archaeology depends on the ability to distinguish between cultural and natural features of the landscape; the same is true of heritage management. Early antiquarians found it difficult to maintain this distinction before the development of the discipline of geology, and prehistoric communities may have experienced similar problems. That is not surprising since the distinction between nature and culture is a recent developmen…
Looking for circular structures in post hole distributions
Excavation and pollen analysis on a bell barrow at ascot, berkshire
Philosophy and archaeology
Excavations in the Middle Ward Mont Orgueil, Gorey, Jersey
The few diggings on a small scale which have been made during the past twenty years have sufficed, nevertheless, to establish the fact that the promontory upon which the Castle stands has had its human inhabitants, off and on, ever since mid-Palaeolithic times and that in the soil which partly clothes it, evidences of their presence lay or lie.N. V. L. Rybot, 1950
Looking for circular structures in post hole distributions
A Bronze Age barrow cemetery, and associated settlement at Roxton, Bedfordshire
The excavation of a cropmark complex (TL157535) on the flood plain of the Great Ouse concentrated on the examination of five ring-ditches and parts of a system of associated rectilinear enclosures and other features.Although three of the ring-ditches surrounded no surviving burial, all could be shown to be the surviving structures of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery. Carbon dates from the two surviving urned primary cremations gave a construction dat…
Research Policy and Review 24. State Science Policy and Economic Development in the United States
The economic impact of two major recessions in the United States (in the 1970s and early 1980s), together with cutbacks in federal spending during the 1980s, have made individual states more aware of their comparative advantage both in economic and in political terms. As a result, states have become more explicitly concerned with their own science policies and with how technological innovation can enhance their prospects for economic development.…
The human uses of flint and chert
Hoarding, recycling and the consumption of prehistoric metalwork
This paper discusses the relationship between two types of metal deposit dating from the first millennium BC: finds of elaborate artefacts in rivers and similar locations; and the ‘non‐ritual’ hoards found on dry land, which sometimes contain scrap metal. It seems likely that fine bronzes were being sacrificed at an increasing rate during this period. Since the metal was rarely of local origin, the supply of bronze came under strain and more mate…
Rock Physics and the Neolithic Axe Trade in Great Britain
This paper is concerned with the products of a number of Neolithic quarries in highland Britain. It investigates the claim that the scale of axe distribution was partly the result of social factors which resulted in these artefacts gaining an added value in areas remote from their sources. One case study considers the sequence of production in Cumbria, in relation to the tensile strength of the rock quarried in different parts of the region. It s…
Australian Rock Art
Liddington Castle and the Battle of Badon
Small-scale excavations in 1976 demonstrated that the hillfort of Liddington Castle was first defended in the Late Bronze Age/Earliest Iron Age, though there had been earlier use of the hilltop. The initial defences were of timber and turf, later enlarged to a more massive dump rampart; there was evidence of at least two or three phases in these works. In the interior of the fort, a shaft of uncertain date was located, and a small pit or emplacem…
Predicting the Local Economic Effects of Proposed Trip-Reduction Rules
The United States 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments set aggressive goals for state-level compliance and mandates for the use of employer trip-reduction (ETR) programs for certain regions. San Diego County, California, has responded to this mandate with its own trip-reduction regulation. The direct effects of the trip-reduction regulation fall into three categories, as follows: changes in spending, changes in costs, and changes in consumer amenities. …
Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries
A compilation of paleoclimate records from lake sediments, trees, glaciers, and marine sediments provides a view of circum-Arctic environmental variability over the last 400 years. From 1840 to the mid-20th century, the Arctic warmed to the highest temperatures in four centuries. This warming ended the Little Ice Age in the Arctic and has caused retreats of glaciers, melting of permafrost and sea ice, and alteration of terrestrial and lake ecosys…
Anti-Semitism in America. Vol. 6
Book Review| October 01 1999 Anti-Semitism in America. Vol. 6 Anti-Semitism in America. Vol. 6, Jeffrey S. Gurock. Richard Bradley Richard Bradley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (1999) 19 (1): 100–102. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502522 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Richard Bradley; Anti-Semitism in America. Vol. 6. Jou…
Reader in Archaeological Theory
Reader in Archaeological Theory: Post-Processual and Cognitive Approaches. Edited by David S. Whitley." Archaeological Journal, 156(1), pp. 447–448
Roger Backhouse, Explorations in Economic Methodology
Architecture, Imagination and the Neolithic World
It is difficult enough to discuss the character of human creativity in the past, but it is doubly difficult to do so for the Neolithic period. That is because the very concept of ‘Neolithic’ is so difficult to pin down. It is a term that has often changed its meaning (Thomas 1993). Like ‘culture’, the word ‘Neolithic’ means many different things. For nineteenth-century scholars it defined a technology, a New Stone Age, distinguished from the Pala…
Midsummer and Midwinter in the Rock Carvings of South Scandinavia
The article considers the light shed on ancient religion by comparative linguistics and the analysis of visual images. Its starting point is the Bronze Age 'Sun Chariot' from Trundholm in Denmark, which is considered in both Flemming Kaul's book Ships on Bronzes and Martin West's Indo-European Poetry and Myth. The ideas of these two writers are discussed in conncection with the evidence of prehistoric rock carvings in South Scandinavia. The artic…
Of Human Remains and Weapons in the Neighbourhood of London’
A number of injuries were observed in a recent examination of 150 Thames ‘river skulls’. Eight of these, exhibiting both healed and unhealed blunt force trauma, were sampled for AMS 14C dating. The results span the Middle Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age/Romano-British period, with the majority falling within the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age. Given the potential time-span involved, this clustering is striking—particularly as it is consistent wit…
The earth, the sky and the water's edge
There have been two kinds of study of ancient beliefs in the earlier prehistory of Scandinavia. One considers the impact of ideas which originated further to the south and east. It considers a cosmology based on the movements of the sun. A second tradition develops out of the ethnography of the circumpolar region and combines archaeological evidence with the beliefs of hunter-gatherers. It postulates the existence of a three-tier cosmology in whi…
Methane Leaks from North American Natural Gas Systems
Methane emissions from U.S. and Canadian natural gas systems appear larger than official estimates.
Multi-isotope evidence for cattle droving at Roman Worcester
Found architecture
The practice of field archaeology depends on the ability to distinguish between cultural and natural features of the landscape; the same is true of heritage management. Early antiquarians found it difficult to maintain this distinction before the development of the discipline of geology, and prehistoric communities may have experienced similar problems. That is not surprising since the distinction between nature and culture is a recent developmen…
Conditionals
Whether I take some action that aims at desired consequence C depends on whether or not I take it to be true that if I so act, I will bring C about and that if I do not, I will fail to. And the action will succeed if and only if my beliefs are true. We argue that two theses follow: (I) To believe a conditional is to be disposed to infer its consequent from the truth of its antecedent, and (II) The conditional is true iff the inference would not m…
Attitudes, deliberation and decisions
In this paper I discuss the challenges of several authors to the claims I make in Decision Theory with a Human Face regarding the relation between preference and choice, the nature of conditional desire, the semantics of conditionals, attitudes to chances and their role in individuating prospects, belief change under growing awareness and choice under ambiguity
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