I Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 18498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | I |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8813-2857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Kant’s Philosophical Ascesis
Sectarianism in Philosophy: A Conversation with Ian Hunter
The Early Jewish Reception of Kantian Philosophy
Current discussions of the early Jewish reception of Kantian philosophy are dominated by two major approaches. According to the first, this reception was governed by a universal Enlightenment rationalism that was present in Judaism no less than in Kantian philosophy. According to the second, it was the fact that Kantianism contained a latent Judaic kabbalistic philosophy that made it attractive to Jewish intellectuals. This paper departs from bot…
Handbook of Leaving Religion
The Handbook of Leaving Religion introduces a neglected field of research with the aim to outline previous and contemporary research, and suggest how the topic of leaving religion should be studied in the future. The handbook consists of three sections: 1) Major debates about leaving religion; 2) Case studies and empirical insights; and 3) Theoretical and methodological approaches. Section one provides the reader with an introduction to key terms…
Secularisation: Process, program, and historiography
Today's dominant academic use of the term ‘secularisation’ refers to an epochal process that transformed a society based on Christian faith to one grounded in human reason. This paper argues that ‘secularisation’ had not been used in this sense prior to the 1830s, and that no such process has been shown to have taken place in early modernity. This new use of the term was in fact internal to rival secularising and sacralising programs. The notion …
About the dialectical historiography of international law
Currently there is a widely held view that international law and its historiography did not emerge until the nineteenth century, with earlier forms of jus gentium or Völkerrecht being consigned to the status of a superseded ‘pre-history’. It is not widely understood that this view itself belongs to a particular kind of historiography – the dialectical historiography of international law – that was born in 1840s Germany, and wielded this viewpoint…
The philosopher: A history in six types
Assessment and quantification of patient set-up errors in nasopharyngeal cancer patients and their biological and dosimetric impact in terms of generalized equivalent uniform dose (gEUD), tumour contr…
The gEUD, TCP and NTCP may be more suitable tools to assess the treatment plans before treating the patients.
Liberal government and techniques of the self
Chapter 7 Assembling the school - 1
The Figure of Man and the Territorialisation of Justice in ‘Enlightenment’ Natural Law: Pufendorf and Vattel
Discussions of early modern philosophical anthropology in postcolonial studies often treat it as tied to Eurocentric conceptions of civilisational supremacism and to the ideologies of imperialism and colonialism served by these conceptions. In discussing the conceptions of man contained in two key early modern doctrines of the law of nature and nations – those of Samuel Pufendorf and Emer de Vattel – this paper casts a sceptical eye on the postco…
A Jus gentium for America’. The Rules of War and the Rule of Law in the Revolutionary United States
In juridical histories, justifications of war, conquest and dispossession are often treated as corruptions of European law and justice brought about by its imperialist and colonialist uses. This article inverts that view. Taking Vattel's Law of Nations (1758) as its key text and revolutionary America as its key context, it argues that war, conquest and dispossession were constitutive features of European political jurisprudence-the "law of nature…
Charles Taylor's a Secular Age and Secularization in Early Modern Germany
In this essay I discuss the historical adequacy of Charles Taylor's philosophical history of secularization, as presented in his A Secular Age . I do so by situating it in relation to the contextual historiography of secularization in early modern Europe, with a particular focus on developments in the German Empire. Considering how profoundly conceptions of secularization have been bound to competing religious and political programmes, we must be…
Terror, Reason, and History
A striking feature of Barry Hindess' political thought is its unflinching application of theoretical reason to concrete problems. In recent discussion of terrorism, Hindess thus argues against the restricted application of the term to nonstate actors and for its expansion to cover the political violence of territorial states. This self-consciously polemical argument displays Hindess' commitment to theoretical reason and his preparedness to assess…
Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire
Kant's Regional Cosmopolitanism
Kant's conception of cosmopolitan right as outlined in his Rechtslehre has recently been advanced as a normative basis for international law and international relations theory. Through an historical investigation of the regional character of the metaphysics underpinning this conception, the present article provides a different way of understanding Kant's cosmopolitanism. This should be understood not as a potentially global norm for law and justi…
Postmodernist Histories
Introduction: The Persona of the Philosopher in the Eighteenth Century
Kant's Religion and Prussian Religious Policy
Since Dilthey's template study of 1890, the Prussian state's attempt to censor Kant's religious writings has typically been seen as the work of a reactionary politics bent on imposing religious orthodoxy as a bulwark against the spread of Aufklärung . This essay offers a revisionist interpretation, arguing that the attempted censoring was a by-product of a set of a long-standing Religionspolitik designed to achieve religious toleration through a …
The Passions of the Prince: Moral Philosophy and Staatskirchenrecht in Thomasius's Conception of Sovereignty
This paper argues that in his discussions of the ethics of sovereignty, Christian Thomasius makes use of two very different conceptions of the prince's moral persona. In his natural law works, Thomasius draws on a Christian-Epicurean moral anthropology, in order to model a sage–prince whose capacity to rule is conditioned by his capacity for restraint of the passions. In his works in the area of Staatskirchenrecht or constitutional church law, ho…
Health Programs in Faith-Based Organizations: Are They Effective
Objectives. We examined the published literature on health programs in faith-based organizations to determine the effectiveness of these programs. Methods. We conducted a systematic literature review of articles describing faith-based health activities. Articles (n = 386) were screened for eligibility (n = 105), whether a faith-based health program was described (n = 53), and whether program effects were reported (28). Results. Most programs focu…
Stabilising forest margins by growing non-timber forest products: A novel example from Hainan Island, China
The papers of Cicely Williams (1893-1992) in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre at the Wellcome Institute
The papers of Cicely Williams were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1993, and subsequently catalogued. They cover most aspects of her work in the field of maternal and child health, as practitioner, teacher and consultant, 1929-1989, especially in the developing world. The collection includes correspondence, reports, lectures, publications, photographs and sound recordings, and is of relevance to a wide range of issues related…
The Regimen of Reason: Kant's Defence of the Philosophy Faculty
Essays on Abortion
An exceptional memory
An account is given of the exceptional memory of the late Professor A. C. Aitken who was also a distinguished mathematician and mental calculator. Examples are given of his performance in memory‐span tasks and his recall of artificial materials learnt under experimental conditions 27 years earlier. His memory is stronger than average in all respects but normal in mode of functioning. It relates to his comprehending materials in terms of rich patt…
Health Programs in Faith-Based Organizations: Are They Effective
Objectives. We examined the published literature on health programs in faith-based organizations to determine the effectiveness of these programs. Methods. We conducted a systematic literature review of articles describing faith-based health activities. Articles (n = 386) were screened for eligibility (n = 105), whether a faith-based health program was described (n = 53), and whether program effects were reported (28). Results. Most programs focu…
Kant's Religion and Prussian Religious Policy
Since Dilthey's template study of 1890, the Prussian state's attempt to censor Kant's religious writings has typically been seen as the work of a reactionary politics bent on imposing religious orthodoxy as a bulwark against the spread of Aufklärung . This essay offers a revisionist interpretation, arguing that the attempted censoring was a by-product of a set of a long-standing Religionspolitik designed to achieve religious toleration through a …
The Figure of Man and the Territorialisation of Justice in ‘Enlightenment’ Natural Law: Pufendorf and Vattel
Discussions of early modern philosophical anthropology in postcolonial studies often treat it as tied to Eurocentric conceptions of civilisational supremacism and to the ideologies of imperialism and colonialism served by these conceptions. In discussing the conceptions of man contained in two key early modern doctrines of the law of nature and nations – those of Samuel Pufendorf and Emer de Vattel – this paper casts a sceptical eye on the postco…
Kant's Regional Cosmopolitanism
Kant's conception of cosmopolitan right as outlined in his Rechtslehre has recently been advanced as a normative basis for international law and international relations theory. Through an historical investigation of the regional character of the metaphysics underpinning this conception, the present article provides a different way of understanding Kant's cosmopolitanism. This should be understood not as a potentially global norm for law and justi…
The Solving of Three-term Series Problems
Sixteen problems of the three-term series type are presented to each of 64 11-year-old children and 32 16-year-olds. The older children show evidence of solving these problems by articulated sequences of analytical judgments which accord with the varying logical structures of the problems, show no influence of atmosphere effect, show marked practice effects in progressing from one problem to the next, and solve problems involving the relatively a…
Charles Taylor's a Secular Age and Secularization in Early Modern Germany
In this essay I discuss the historical adequacy of Charles Taylor's philosophical history of secularization, as presented in his A Secular Age . I do so by situating it in relation to the contextual historiography of secularization in early modern Europe, with a particular focus on developments in the German Empire. Considering how profoundly conceptions of secularization have been bound to competing religious and political programmes, we must be…
Postmodernist Histories
The Regimen of Reason: Kant's Defence of the Philosophy Faculty
Secularisation: Process, program, and historiography
Today's dominant academic use of the term ‘secularisation’ refers to an epochal process that transformed a society based on Christian faith to one grounded in human reason. This paper argues that ‘secularisation’ had not been used in this sense prior to the 1830s, and that no such process has been shown to have taken place in early modernity. This new use of the term was in fact internal to rival secularising and sacralising programs. The notion …
About the dialectical historiography of international law
Currently there is a widely held view that international law and its historiography did not emerge until the nineteenth century, with earlier forms of jus gentium or Völkerrecht being consigned to the status of a superseded ‘pre-history’. It is not widely understood that this view itself belongs to a particular kind of historiography – the dialectical historiography of international law – that was born in 1840s Germany, and wielded this viewpoint…
Introduction: The Persona of the Philosopher in the Eighteenth Century
The Passions of the Prince: Moral Philosophy and Staatskirchenrecht in Thomasius's Conception of Sovereignty
This paper argues that in his discussions of the ethics of sovereignty, Christian Thomasius makes use of two very different conceptions of the prince's moral persona. In his natural law works, Thomasius draws on a Christian-Epicurean moral anthropology, in order to model a sage–prince whose capacity to rule is conditioned by his capacity for restraint of the passions. In his works in the area of Staatskirchenrecht or constitutional church law, ho…
An exceptional memory
An account is given of the exceptional memory of the late Professor A. C. Aitken who was also a distinguished mathematician and mental calculator. Examples are given of his performance in memory‐span tasks and his recall of artificial materials learnt under experimental conditions 27 years earlier. His memory is stronger than average in all respects but normal in mode of functioning. It relates to his comprehending materials in terms of rich patt…
An Exceptional Talent for Calculative Thinking
This study explores the highly exceptional 'lightning calculation' of a distinguished mathematician who has considerable understanding of his own calculative thinking. Each calculation is a temporally co-ordinated, rapidly flexible onleading which is both unitary and complex. Biographically, it derives from prolonged and intensive practice fostered by circumstances in his upbringing and made possible by a large cognitive capacity which also manif…
Influence of Mental Set on Problem‐solving
The Solving of Three-term Series Problems
Sixteen problems of the three-term series type are presented to each of 64 11-year-old children and 32 16-year-olds. The older children show evidence of solving these problems by articulated sequences of analytical judgments which accord with the varying logical structures of the problems, show no influence of atmosphere effect, show marked practice effects in progressing from one problem to the next, and solve problems involving the relatively a…
The Solving of Five‐letter Anagram Problems
An experiment is reported involving 72 student subjects, a population of 144 different five‐letter anagrams and a total of 864 solution times for analysis. Various characteristics of anagram solving are considered leading to a conception of the process as a recurring trial and check activity in which the nature and sequence of the tries are determined jointly by the thinker's set, linguistic knowledge, and preference for certain forms of letter p…
Further Studies on Anagram Solving
Two experiments are reported. In the first, 100 student subjects took part in a modified repetition of a previous experiment. The results confirm and add to those of the earlier study. In the second, 487 students took a task requiring the production of three different solution words from the same anagram. The various orders of producing these words directly demonstrate anagram solving as a continued trial‐and‐check activity with determinable tran…
An Exceptional Talent for Calculative Thinking
This study explores the highly exceptional 'lightning calculation' of a distinguished mathematician who has considerable understanding of his own calculative thinking. Each calculation is a temporally co-ordinated, rapidly flexible onleading which is both unitary and complex. Biographically, it derives from prolonged and intensive practice fostered by circumstances in his upbringing and made possible by a large cognitive capacity which also manif…
The Art of Memory
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Art of Memory. By Frances A. Yates. (London : Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1966. Pp. xvi + 400. Price 63s). Ian M. L. Hunter Ian M. L. Hunter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 67, April 1967, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217978 Published: 01 April 1967
An exceptional memory
An account is given of the exceptional memory of the late Professor A. C. Aitken who was also a distinguished mathematician and mental calculator. Examples are given of his performance in memory‐span tasks and his recall of artificial materials learnt under experimental conditions 27 years earlier. His memory is stronger than average in all respects but normal in mode of functioning. It relates to his comprehending materials in terms of rich patt…
Essays on Abortion
The Regimen of Reason: Kant's Defence of the Philosophy Faculty
The papers of Cicely Williams (1893-1992) in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre at the Wellcome Institute
The papers of Cicely Williams were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1993, and subsequently catalogued. They cover most aspects of her work in the field of maternal and child health, as practitioner, teacher and consultant, 1929-1989, especially in the developing world. The collection includes correspondence, reports, lectures, publications, photographs and sound recordings, and is of relevance to a wide range of issues related…
Stabilising forest margins by growing non-timber forest products: A novel example from Hainan Island, China
Health Programs in Faith-Based Organizations: Are They Effective
Objectives. We examined the published literature on health programs in faith-based organizations to determine the effectiveness of these programs. Methods. We conducted a systematic literature review of articles describing faith-based health activities. Articles (n = 386) were screened for eligibility (n = 105), whether a faith-based health program was described (n = 53), and whether program effects were reported (28). Results. Most programs focu…
Kant's Religion and Prussian Religious Policy
Since Dilthey's template study of 1890, the Prussian state's attempt to censor Kant's religious writings has typically been seen as the work of a reactionary politics bent on imposing religious orthodoxy as a bulwark against the spread of Aufklärung . This essay offers a revisionist interpretation, arguing that the attempted censoring was a by-product of a set of a long-standing Religionspolitik designed to achieve religious toleration through a …
The Passions of the Prince: Moral Philosophy and Staatskirchenrecht in Thomasius's Conception of Sovereignty
This paper argues that in his discussions of the ethics of sovereignty, Christian Thomasius makes use of two very different conceptions of the prince's moral persona. In his natural law works, Thomasius draws on a Christian-Epicurean moral anthropology, in order to model a sage–prince whose capacity to rule is conditioned by his capacity for restraint of the passions. In his works in the area of Staatskirchenrecht or constitutional church law, ho…
Introduction: The Persona of the Philosopher in the Eighteenth Century
Postmodernist Histories
Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire
Kant's Regional Cosmopolitanism
Kant's conception of cosmopolitan right as outlined in his Rechtslehre has recently been advanced as a normative basis for international law and international relations theory. Through an historical investigation of the regional character of the metaphysics underpinning this conception, the present article provides a different way of understanding Kant's cosmopolitanism. This should be understood not as a potentially global norm for law and justi…
Charles Taylor's a Secular Age and Secularization in Early Modern Germany
In this essay I discuss the historical adequacy of Charles Taylor's philosophical history of secularization, as presented in his A Secular Age . I do so by situating it in relation to the contextual historiography of secularization in early modern Europe, with a particular focus on developments in the German Empire. Considering how profoundly conceptions of secularization have been bound to competing religious and political programmes, we must be…
Terror, Reason, and History
A striking feature of Barry Hindess' political thought is its unflinching application of theoretical reason to concrete problems. In recent discussion of terrorism, Hindess thus argues against the restricted application of the term to nonstate actors and for its expansion to cover the political violence of territorial states. This self-consciously polemical argument displays Hindess' commitment to theoretical reason and his preparedness to assess…
The Figure of Man and the Territorialisation of Justice in ‘Enlightenment’ Natural Law: Pufendorf and Vattel
Discussions of early modern philosophical anthropology in postcolonial studies often treat it as tied to Eurocentric conceptions of civilisational supremacism and to the ideologies of imperialism and colonialism served by these conceptions. In discussing the conceptions of man contained in two key early modern doctrines of the law of nature and nations – those of Samuel Pufendorf and Emer de Vattel – this paper casts a sceptical eye on the postco…
A Jus gentium for America’. The Rules of War and the Rule of Law in the Revolutionary United States
In juridical histories, justifications of war, conquest and dispossession are often treated as corruptions of European law and justice brought about by its imperialist and colonialist uses. This article inverts that view. Taking Vattel's Law of Nations (1758) as its key text and revolutionary America as its key context, it argues that war, conquest and dispossession were constitutive features of European political jurisprudence-the "law of nature…
Liberal government and techniques of the self
Chapter 7 Assembling the school - 1
Assessment and quantification of patient set-up errors in nasopharyngeal cancer patients and their biological and dosimetric impact in terms of generalized equivalent uniform dose (gEUD), tumour contr…
The gEUD, TCP and NTCP may be more suitable tools to assess the treatment plans before treating the patients.
About the dialectical historiography of international law
Currently there is a widely held view that international law and its historiography did not emerge until the nineteenth century, with earlier forms of jus gentium or Völkerrecht being consigned to the status of a superseded ‘pre-history’. It is not widely understood that this view itself belongs to a particular kind of historiography – the dialectical historiography of international law – that was born in 1840s Germany, and wielded this viewpoint…
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