Richard Johns
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Johns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Johns |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4220-5835 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Riley in Cairo
In the early 1980s, Bridget Riley produced a series of paintings distinguished by their use of the same group of colours, said to have been inspired by the vividly preserved painted tombs that she encountered during a visit to Egypt in the winter of 1979–80. Though clearly related to the black‐and‐white paintings that propelled Riley to international fame in the 1960s, these new works represented a notable change in the artist's methods, combinin…
Epistemic theories of objective chance
Self-organisation in dynamical systems
Putting the United States in North America
L’article concerne l’influence des processus sociaux transnationaux – expansion territoriale, développement économique – sur le cours de l’histoire des Etats-Unis entre leur accession à l’Indépendance à la fin du 18e siècle et leur entrée en guerre en 1917. Contrairement à ce qu’affirme l’essentiel de l’historiographique, durant cette période l’histoire des États-Unis n’est pas connectée seulement à celle du monde atlantique et de l’Europe, mais …
Framing Robert Aggas
Drawing on unpublished archival material, this essay offers a new understanding of London's Painter–Stainers' Company during the second half of the seventeenth century. Beginning and ending with a discussion of the English painter Robert Aggas, whose Landscape at Sunset became the centrepiece of an ambitious display of paintings within the Painter–Stainers' Hall, the essay identifies the Company as a vital presence within the cultural economy of …
Ecological Modernization as a Basis for Environmental Policy
Sustainable development and ecological modernization are the two theoretical frame-works that underlie environmental policy making in industrialized countries. It is especially the theory of ecological modernization that describes recent changes in environmental policy making and assumes a positive-sum game between the economy and the environment. The article critically reects upon ecological modernization as a basis for current environmental pol…
Probability and Symmetry
The Principle of Indifference, which dictates that we ought to assign two outcomes equal probability in the absence of known reasons to do otherwise, is vulnerable to well-known objections. Nevertheless, the appeal of the principle, and of symmetry-based assignments of equal probability, persists. We show that, relative to a given class of symmetries satisfying certain properties, we are justified in calling certain outcomes equally probable, and…
The House of Saud
Ecological Modernization as a Basis for Environmental Policy
Sustainable development and ecological modernization are the two theoretical frame-works that underlie environmental policy making in industrialized countries. It is especially the theory of ecological modernization that describes recent changes in environmental policy making and assumes a positive-sum game between the economy and the environment. The article critically reects upon ecological modernization as a basis for current environmental pol…
Probability and Symmetry
The Principle of Indifference, which dictates that we ought to assign two outcomes equal probability in the absence of known reasons to do otherwise, is vulnerable to well-known objections. Nevertheless, the appeal of the principle, and of symmetry-based assignments of equal probability, persists. We show that, relative to a given class of symmetries satisfying certain properties, we are justified in calling certain outcomes equally probable, and…
The House of Saud
Ecological Modernization as a Basis for Environmental Policy
Sustainable development and ecological modernization are the two theoretical frame-works that underlie environmental policy making in industrialized countries. It is especially the theory of ecological modernization that describes recent changes in environmental policy making and assumes a positive-sum game between the economy and the environment. The article critically reects upon ecological modernization as a basis for current environmental pol…
Probability and Symmetry
The Principle of Indifference, which dictates that we ought to assign two outcomes equal probability in the absence of known reasons to do otherwise, is vulnerable to well-known objections. Nevertheless, the appeal of the principle, and of symmetry-based assignments of equal probability, persists. We show that, relative to a given class of symmetries satisfying certain properties, we are justified in calling certain outcomes equally probable, and…
Framing Robert Aggas
Drawing on unpublished archival material, this essay offers a new understanding of London's Painter–Stainers' Company during the second half of the seventeenth century. Beginning and ending with a discussion of the English painter Robert Aggas, whose Landscape at Sunset became the centrepiece of an ambitious display of paintings within the Painter–Stainers' Hall, the essay identifies the Company as a vital presence within the cultural economy of …
Putting the United States in North America
L’article concerne l’influence des processus sociaux transnationaux – expansion territoriale, développement économique – sur le cours de l’histoire des Etats-Unis entre leur accession à l’Indépendance à la fin du 18e siècle et leur entrée en guerre en 1917. Contrairement à ce qu’affirme l’essentiel de l’historiographique, durant cette période l’histoire des États-Unis n’est pas connectée seulement à celle du monde atlantique et de l’Europe, mais …
Self-organisation in dynamical systems
Epistemic theories of objective chance
Riley in Cairo
In the early 1980s, Bridget Riley produced a series of paintings distinguished by their use of the same group of colours, said to have been inspired by the vividly preserved painted tombs that she encountered during a visit to Egypt in the winter of 1979–80. Though clearly related to the black‐and‐white paintings that propelled Riley to international fame in the 1960s, these new works represented a notable change in the artist's methods, combinin…
Political science (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)