David Stack
Biographic Data
| ID | 1021582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Stack |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Stack |
| SIGNATURE | STACK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9785-3303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Objectivity and the Historian: Beyond the Fried Egg Test
Is objectivity bad for a historian? I am asking for a friend. Whereas once objectivity might have been considered the historian's superpower—an enviable ability to rise above the fray and see all sides of the mountain (more on this mountain later)—it now seems that it might be a malady. The postmodernists, of course, have long diagnosed objectivity as a self-serving delusion or sleight of hand with which we bolster ourselves and seduce our reader…
Promoting Well-being through History Teaching
This article explores the potential for the greater infusion of well-being concerns into the teaching of history in UK HEIs. Drawing upon results from a survey of over 100 current undergraduates in one UK History department, alongside a scoping study of well-being provision provided by history departments or their equivalent in about ninety UK HEIs, this article considers ways in which well-being can be promoted through the teaching and learning …
A great pedestrian’: John Stuart Mill, the Walking Philosopher
Walking was an essential part of John Stuart Mill’s education, working life, and leisure. As a boy, James Mill schooled his son on daily walks; as an adult, Mill made an 11-mile round trip across London on foot to work and back each day; for recreation he went on walking tours; his passion for botany led him to walk regularly in rural Britain; later in life he undertook walking tours across France, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Mill, in short…
The Hostility of William Stanley Jevons toward John Stuart Mill
This article explores the basis for the well-known hostility of William Stanley Jevons toward John Stuart Mill, and offers an alternative explanation to those which have hitherto dominated discussion. After reviewing the importance of disagreements over economic doctrine and questions of scientific method, as well as the "psychological dimension" to the hostility, the article makes the case for considering a "fourth dimension": the centrality of …
Charles Darwin: Theory of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin and the scientific mind
Although often presented as an essential, ahistorical or innate psychological entity, the notion of a ‘scientific mind’ is ripe for historical analysis. The growing historical interest in the self-fashioning of masculine identities, and more particularly the self-fashioning of the nineteenth-century scientist, has opened up a space in which to probe what was understood by someone being said to possess a ‘scientific mind’. This task is made all th…
Beyond the facts: How a U.S. sociologist made John Stuart Mill into a ‘Neo-Malthusian
This article explores the roots of the characterization of John Stuart Mill as a ‘Neo-Malthusian’. Making extensive use of the Norman E. Himes Papers, held at the Countway Library of Medicine, it shows that Himes, a U.S. sociologist and committed birth control campaigner in the inter-war period, framed a characterization of Mill that endures to this day. The article demonstrates how and why Himes repeatedly took his arguments ‘beyond the facts’, …
Motivation and Acceptability Norms of Human-Caused Sound in Muir Woods National Monument
Acceptability of sound, natural or human-caused, was predicted to vary by an individual's motivation for quiet at Muir Woods National Monument. This study used a dose-response methodology where visitors (n = 157; response rate = 54%) listened to five audio recordings varying in the percentage of time that human-caused sound was louder than natural sound (percent time above). Visitors then rated the acceptability (pleasing to annoying) of each rec…
The Death of John Stuart Mill
This article surveys the fiercely contested posthumous assessments of John Stuart Mill in the newspaper and periodical press, in the months following his death in May 1873, and elicits the broader intellectual context. Judgements made in the immediate wake of Mill's death influence biographers and historians to this day and provide an illuminating aperture into the politics and shifting ideological forces of the period. The article considers how …
The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon – By W.T. Stead
The "Secret Concatenation" in the Mid-nineteenth Century: The Case of George Poulett Scrope, a Still Neglected Political Economist
Research Article| September 01 2000 The “Secret Concatenation” in the Mid-nineteenth Century: The Case of George Poulett Scrope, a Still Neglected Political Economist David Stack David Stack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (3): 553–584. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-3-553 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David S…
William Lovett and the National Association for the Political and Social Improvement of the People
This article examines the isomorphic connections between the scientific and political ideas of William Lovett and the National Association for the Political and Social Improvement of the People. It demonstrates that, far from being a mere coincidental device, distinct from his politics, Lovett's scientific ideas helped shape the internal structure of his political radicalism. The same was also true of the National Association more generally. Conc…
Motivation and Acceptability Norms of Human-Caused Sound in Muir Woods National Monument
Acceptability of sound, natural or human-caused, was predicted to vary by an individual's motivation for quiet at Muir Woods National Monument. This study used a dose-response methodology where visitors (n = 157; response rate = 54%) listened to five audio recordings varying in the percentage of time that human-caused sound was louder than natural sound (percent time above). Visitors then rated the acceptability (pleasing to annoying) of each rec…
The Death of John Stuart Mill
This article surveys the fiercely contested posthumous assessments of John Stuart Mill in the newspaper and periodical press, in the months following his death in May 1873, and elicits the broader intellectual context. Judgements made in the immediate wake of Mill's death influence biographers and historians to this day and provide an illuminating aperture into the politics and shifting ideological forces of the period. The article considers how …
The "Secret Concatenation" in the Mid-nineteenth Century: The Case of George Poulett Scrope, a Still Neglected Political Economist
Research Article| September 01 2000 The “Secret Concatenation” in the Mid-nineteenth Century: The Case of George Poulett Scrope, a Still Neglected Political Economist David Stack David Stack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (3): 553–584. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-3-553 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David S…
William Lovett and the National Association for the Political and Social Improvement of the People
This article examines the isomorphic connections between the scientific and political ideas of William Lovett and the National Association for the Political and Social Improvement of the People. It demonstrates that, far from being a mere coincidental device, distinct from his politics, Lovett's scientific ideas helped shape the internal structure of his political radicalism. The same was also true of the National Association more generally. Conc…
William Lovett and the National Association for the Political and Social Improvement of the People
This article examines the isomorphic connections between the scientific and political ideas of William Lovett and the National Association for the Political and Social Improvement of the People. It demonstrates that, far from being a mere coincidental device, distinct from his politics, Lovett's scientific ideas helped shape the internal structure of his political radicalism. The same was also true of the National Association more generally. Conc…
The "Secret Concatenation" in the Mid-nineteenth Century: The Case of George Poulett Scrope, a Still Neglected Political Economist
Research Article| September 01 2000 The “Secret Concatenation” in the Mid-nineteenth Century: The Case of George Poulett Scrope, a Still Neglected Political Economist David Stack David Stack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (3): 553–584. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-3-553 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David S…
The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon – By W.T. Stead
Motivation and Acceptability Norms of Human-Caused Sound in Muir Woods National Monument
Acceptability of sound, natural or human-caused, was predicted to vary by an individual's motivation for quiet at Muir Woods National Monument. This study used a dose-response methodology where visitors (n = 157; response rate = 54%) listened to five audio recordings varying in the percentage of time that human-caused sound was louder than natural sound (percent time above). Visitors then rated the acceptability (pleasing to annoying) of each rec…
The Death of John Stuart Mill
This article surveys the fiercely contested posthumous assessments of John Stuart Mill in the newspaper and periodical press, in the months following his death in May 1873, and elicits the broader intellectual context. Judgements made in the immediate wake of Mill's death influence biographers and historians to this day and provide an illuminating aperture into the politics and shifting ideological forces of the period. The article considers how …
Beyond the facts: How a U.S. sociologist made John Stuart Mill into a ‘Neo-Malthusian
This article explores the roots of the characterization of John Stuart Mill as a ‘Neo-Malthusian’. Making extensive use of the Norman E. Himes Papers, held at the Countway Library of Medicine, it shows that Himes, a U.S. sociologist and committed birth control campaigner in the inter-war period, framed a characterization of Mill that endures to this day. The article demonstrates how and why Himes repeatedly took his arguments ‘beyond the facts’, …
Charles Darwin: Theory of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin and the scientific mind
Although often presented as an essential, ahistorical or innate psychological entity, the notion of a ‘scientific mind’ is ripe for historical analysis. The growing historical interest in the self-fashioning of masculine identities, and more particularly the self-fashioning of the nineteenth-century scientist, has opened up a space in which to probe what was understood by someone being said to possess a ‘scientific mind’. This task is made all th…
The Hostility of William Stanley Jevons toward John Stuart Mill
This article explores the basis for the well-known hostility of William Stanley Jevons toward John Stuart Mill, and offers an alternative explanation to those which have hitherto dominated discussion. After reviewing the importance of disagreements over economic doctrine and questions of scientific method, as well as the "psychological dimension" to the hostility, the article makes the case for considering a "fourth dimension": the centrality of …
A great pedestrian’: John Stuart Mill, the Walking Philosopher
Walking was an essential part of John Stuart Mill’s education, working life, and leisure. As a boy, James Mill schooled his son on daily walks; as an adult, Mill made an 11-mile round trip across London on foot to work and back each day; for recreation he went on walking tours; his passion for botany led him to walk regularly in rural Britain; later in life he undertook walking tours across France, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Mill, in short…
Promoting Well-being through History Teaching
This article explores the potential for the greater infusion of well-being concerns into the teaching of history in UK HEIs. Drawing upon results from a survey of over 100 current undergraduates in one UK History department, alongside a scoping study of well-being provision provided by history departments or their equivalent in about ninety UK HEIs, this article considers ways in which well-being can be promoted through the teaching and learning …
Objectivity and the Historian: Beyond the Fried Egg Test
Is objectivity bad for a historian? I am asking for a friend. Whereas once objectivity might have been considered the historian's superpower—an enviable ability to rise above the fray and see all sides of the mountain (more on this mountain later)—it now seems that it might be a malady. The postmodernists, of course, have long diagnosed objectivity as a self-serving delusion or sleight of hand with which we bolster ourselves and seduce our reader…
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