Peter Walmsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1673690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Walmsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Walmsley |
| SIGNATURE | WALMSLEY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-6970-2039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Robinson Crusoe’s Canoes
Among his many experiments in manufacturing in the Life and Strange Surprising Adventures, Robinson Crusoe tries his hand at building canoes. The last of these, built with Friday’s help, is a hybrid of Carib and European design, a traditional dugout fitted out with sail and rudder. I read this vessel as a transcultural object, reflecting the technological adaptations common in the contact zone. At the same time, I investigate the history of Europ…
The African Artisan Meets the English Sailor
Daniel Defoe was preoccupied with industry, skilled work, and technological sophistication as markers of English civilization. But in Captain Singleton (1720), encounters with African workers reveal the porousness of the boundaries between savage and civilized for Defoe; the Africans Singleton enslaves in Mozambique prove to be dextrous and ingenious craftsmen. At the same time, with Singleton's discovery of a naked Englishman in the heart of Afr…
The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy
Compendious Conversations
Dispute and Conversation
L'A. examine la refutation de dispute de la part de Locke comme revelatrice de la methode et de la rhetorique de son epistemologie
The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy
A Locke Miscellany
The Philosopher as Writer
Explores the literary dimension in the practice of philosophy by eighteenth-century authors, including Rousseau, Kant, Leibniz, Herder, Hume, Pope, Shaftesbury, and Wollstonecraft. A wide range of literary structures and stylistic questions are considered
Dispute and Conversation
L'A. examine la refutation de dispute de la part de Locke comme revelatrice de la methode et de la rhetorique de son epistemologie
The Philosopher as Writer
Explores the literary dimension in the practice of philosophy by eighteenth-century authors, including Rousseau, Kant, Leibniz, Herder, Hume, Pope, Shaftesbury, and Wollstonecraft. A wide range of literary structures and stylistic questions are considered
The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy
A Locke Miscellany
Compendious Conversations
Dispute and Conversation
L'A. examine la refutation de dispute de la part de Locke comme revelatrice de la methode et de la rhetorique de son epistemologie
The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy
The African Artisan Meets the English Sailor
Daniel Defoe was preoccupied with industry, skilled work, and technological sophistication as markers of English civilization. But in Captain Singleton (1720), encounters with African workers reveal the porousness of the boundaries between savage and civilized for Defoe; the Africans Singleton enslaves in Mozambique prove to be dextrous and ingenious craftsmen. At the same time, with Singleton's discovery of a naked Englishman in the heart of Afr…
Robinson Crusoe’s Canoes
Among his many experiments in manufacturing in the Life and Strange Surprising Adventures, Robinson Crusoe tries his hand at building canoes. The last of these, built with Friday’s help, is a hybrid of Carib and European design, a traditional dugout fitted out with sail and rudder. I read this vessel as a transcultural object, reflecting the technological adaptations common in the contact zone. At the same time, I investigate the history of Europ…
Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Rhetoric (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)