H Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 24422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7504-0283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1929 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Consciousness interpreted: An interpretation of Dennett’s view of consciousness
Dennett’s work has had a profound impact on philosophical and scientific understanding of consciousness. However, interpreting Dennett’s work on consciousness is notoriously challenging. Some have even suggested that his ideas are contradictory. This paper develops and defends an interpretation of Dennett’s views, on which consciousness is a real pattern. I argue that this interpretation can make sense of some initially puzzling features of the v…
A culture of their own? culture in robot-robot interaction
This paper presents a framework for studying culture in the context of robot-robot interaction (RRI). We examine the claim that groups of robots can share a culture, even independently of their relationship with humans. At the centre of our framework is a recognition that ‘culture’ is a concept that can be defined and understood in many different ways. As we demonstrate, which definition of ‘culture’ one employs has important consequences for the…
Can an AI system be conscious
Powerful Qualities and the Metaphysics of Properties
In debates about the metaphysics of properties, many have claimed that properties are powers. According to the powers view, a property's nature disposes objects to behave in certain ways in response to certain stimuli. For example, the property of fragility disposes objects to smash when a force is applied to them. But how should we understand powers? There has recently been a surge of interest in the powerful qualities view of properties. Other …
Consciousness as a natural kind and the methodological puzzle of consciousness
A new research programme conceives of consciousness as a natural kind. One proposed virtue of this approach is that it can help resolve the methodological puzzle of consciousness, which involves distinguishing consciousness from cognitive access. The present article raises a novel problem for this approach. The problem is rooted in the fact that there may be episodes of conscious experience that have not been classified as such. I argue that conc…
Compound powerful qualities: Properties as compounds of distinct powers and qualities
This paper develops and defends a compound powerful qualities view of properties. According to this view, properties are essentially composed of distinct powerful and qualitative elements. First, I outline an argument for the compound powerful qualities view, based on the claim that it has the explanatory power of other views, without incurring their costs. Second, I argue that the view has the resources to explain how properties are individuated…
Spatial distribution of human capital in Romania
Human capital reflects the knowledge, competencies, and health people invest in and accumulate throughout their lives. Therefore, investing in people's health, education, and skills is essential to developing human capital. The evaluation of human capital is very important for understanding the premises for future development at a territorial level and the impact that different development trajectories may have on economic performance and populat…
Whales, fish and Alaskan bears: Interest-relative taxonomy and kind pluralism in biology
This paper uses two case studies to explore an interest-relative view of taxonomy and how it complements kind pluralism in biology. First, I consider the ABC island bear, which can be correctly classified into more than one species. I argue that this classificatory pluralism can be explained by reference to the range of alternative explanatory interests in biology. In the second half of the paper, I pursue an interest-relative view of classificat…
Emotions, concepts and the indeterminacy of natural kinds
A central question for philosophical psychology is which mental faculties form natural kinds. There is hot debate over the kind status of faculties as diverse as consciousness, seeing, concepts, emotions, constancy and the senses. In this paper, I take emotions and concepts as my main focus, and argue that questions over the kind status of these faculties are complicated by the undeservedly overlooked fact that natural kinds are indeterminate in …
Fuzziness in the Mind: Can Perception be Unconscious
Recently, a new movement has arisen in the philosophy of perception: one that views perception as a natural kind. Strangely, this movement has neglected the extensive work in philosophy of science on natural kinds. The present paper remedies this. I start by isolating a widespread and influential assumption, which is that we can give necessary and sufficient conditions for perception. I show that this assumption is radically at odds with current …
Attention, Psychology, and Pluralism
There is an overriding orthodoxy amongst philosophers that attention is a ‘unified phenomenon’, subject to explanation by one monistic theory. In this article, I examine whether this philosophical orthodoxy is reflected in the practice of psychology. I argue that the view of attention that best represents psychological work is a variety of conceptual pluralism. When it comes to the psychology of attention, monism should be rejected and pluralism …
The Ethics and Impact of Digital Immortality
The concept of digital immortality has emerged over the past decade and is defined here as the continuation of an active or passive digital presence after death. Advances in knowledge management, machine to machine communication, data mining and artificial intelligence are now making a more active presence after death possible. This paper examines the research and literature around active digital immortality and explores the emotional, social, fi…
Refugees, the State and the Concept of Home
Journal Article Refugees, the State and the Concept of Home Get access Helen Taylor Helen Taylor * * University of East London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 130–152, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdt004 Published: 22 April 2013
SP5-30 Evaluating the implementation of trachomoa treatment guidelines in Australia
Introduction Trachoma control guidelines for the WHO recommend the SAFE strategy which includes surgery for trichiasis, antibiotic treatment, facial cleanliness and environmental improvement. Australia is the only developed country where trachoma persists. In contrast to other countries, it has largely been assumed that lack of access to antibiotics and health services is not a major contributor to the persistence of trachoma in Australia. We ass…
A Tool for Supporting the Teaching of Parallel Database Systems
Parallel database systems are complex entities. When teaching about these systems as part of a course in a limited time, one has difficulty providing useful practical experience that gives a deep insight into system behavior and operation. This paper describes a tool for performance prediction that has been developed to aid the visualization of parallel database systems and that is currently being used to support teaching. The tool enables studen…
Forging the job: A crisis of 'modernization' or redundancy for the police in England and Wales, 1900-39
After 1918, policing 'modernized' by switching resources from drunks and vagrants to motorists and indictable offenders. Since the late nineteenth century, traditional preventive policing practices had been under threat. By the end of the first world war a crisis had developed when the Exchequer replaced municipal authorities as the dominant paymaster, policy pay soared, and police numbers were frozen. Suddenly, the police began to report escalat…
Inequality in infant morbidity: Causes and consequences in England in the 1990s. ALSPAC Study Team. Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of deprivation, crowding, maternal smoking, and breast feeding on morbidity from wheeze and diarrhoea in the first six months after birth. DESIGN: A geographically located population survey using maternal responses on self completion questionnaires. SETTING: The three health districts of Bristol. SUBJECTS: 8501 infants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ALSPAC) in which all women ex…
Plautus: The Comedies
Persa, Palmer Bovie Menaechmi, Palmer Bovie Cistellaria, R.H.W. Dillard Pseudolus, Richard Beacham Stichus, Carol Poster and Vidularia, John Wright
Diagnoses, symptoms, and attribution of symptoms among black and white inpatients admitted for coronary heart disease
OBJECTIVES. This study examined health care-seeking behaviors to elucidate factors that contribute to differences in patterns of coronary heart disease between African Americans and Whites. The prevalence of diagnosed coronary heart disease, patients' perceptions of symptoms and attribution of symptoms, and predictors of painful symptoms and attribution of cardiac symptoms were examined. METHODS. The study involved 2416 patients admitted with dia…
The Use of Maps in the Study of the Black Ghetto-Formation Process: Cincinnati, 1802–1910
(1984). The Use of Maps in the Study of the Black Ghetto-Formation Process: Cincinnati, 1802–1910. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 44-58
Social interactions between adult male and infant rhesus monkeys in Nepal
Moshoeshoe, Chief of the Sotho
Parkinson's Law and Other Studies in Administration
The Art of Succeeding
The Triumphant Machine
Refugees, the State and the Concept of Home
Journal Article Refugees, the State and the Concept of Home Get access Helen Taylor Helen Taylor * * University of East London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 130–152, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdt004 Published: 22 April 2013
Diagnoses, symptoms, and attribution of symptoms among black and white inpatients admitted for coronary heart disease
OBJECTIVES. This study examined health care-seeking behaviors to elucidate factors that contribute to differences in patterns of coronary heart disease between African Americans and Whites. The prevalence of diagnosed coronary heart disease, patients' perceptions of symptoms and attribution of symptoms, and predictors of painful symptoms and attribution of cardiac symptoms were examined. METHODS. The study involved 2416 patients admitted with dia…
Inequality in infant morbidity: Causes and consequences in England in the 1990s. ALSPAC Study Team. Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of deprivation, crowding, maternal smoking, and breast feeding on morbidity from wheeze and diarrhoea in the first six months after birth. DESIGN: A geographically located population survey using maternal responses on self completion questionnaires. SETTING: The three health districts of Bristol. SUBJECTS: 8501 infants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ALSPAC) in which all women ex…
Moshoeshoe, Chief of the Sotho
Emotions, concepts and the indeterminacy of natural kinds
A central question for philosophical psychology is which mental faculties form natural kinds. There is hot debate over the kind status of faculties as diverse as consciousness, seeing, concepts, emotions, constancy and the senses. In this paper, I take emotions and concepts as my main focus, and argue that questions over the kind status of these faculties are complicated by the undeservedly overlooked fact that natural kinds are indeterminate in …
Fuzziness in the Mind: Can Perception be Unconscious
Recently, a new movement has arisen in the philosophy of perception: one that views perception as a natural kind. Strangely, this movement has neglected the extensive work in philosophy of science on natural kinds. The present paper remedies this. I start by isolating a widespread and influential assumption, which is that we can give necessary and sufficient conditions for perception. I show that this assumption is radically at odds with current …
The Use of Maps in the Study of the Black Ghetto-Formation Process: Cincinnati, 1802–1910
(1984). The Use of Maps in the Study of the Black Ghetto-Formation Process: Cincinnati, 1802–1910. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 44-58
Whales, fish and Alaskan bears: Interest-relative taxonomy and kind pluralism in biology
This paper uses two case studies to explore an interest-relative view of taxonomy and how it complements kind pluralism in biology. First, I consider the ABC island bear, which can be correctly classified into more than one species. I argue that this classificatory pluralism can be explained by reference to the range of alternative explanatory interests in biology. In the second half of the paper, I pursue an interest-relative view of classificat…
Attention, Psychology, and Pluralism
There is an overriding orthodoxy amongst philosophers that attention is a ‘unified phenomenon’, subject to explanation by one monistic theory. In this article, I examine whether this philosophical orthodoxy is reflected in the practice of psychology. I argue that the view of attention that best represents psychological work is a variety of conceptual pluralism. When it comes to the psychology of attention, monism should be rejected and pluralism …
Powerful Qualities and the Metaphysics of Properties
In debates about the metaphysics of properties, many have claimed that properties are powers. According to the powers view, a property's nature disposes objects to behave in certain ways in response to certain stimuli. For example, the property of fragility disposes objects to smash when a force is applied to them. But how should we understand powers? There has recently been a surge of interest in the powerful qualities view of properties. Other …
Forging the job: A crisis of 'modernization' or redundancy for the police in England and Wales, 1900-39
After 1918, policing 'modernized' by switching resources from drunks and vagrants to motorists and indictable offenders. Since the late nineteenth century, traditional preventive policing practices had been under threat. By the end of the first world war a crisis had developed when the Exchequer replaced municipal authorities as the dominant paymaster, policy pay soared, and police numbers were frozen. Suddenly, the police began to report escalat…
The Triumphant Machine
The Art of Succeeding
Parkinson's Law and Other Studies in Administration
Moshoeshoe, Chief of the Sotho
Social interactions between adult male and infant rhesus monkeys in Nepal
The Use of Maps in the Study of the Black Ghetto-Formation Process: Cincinnati, 1802–1910
(1984). The Use of Maps in the Study of the Black Ghetto-Formation Process: Cincinnati, 1802–1910. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 44-58
Diagnoses, symptoms, and attribution of symptoms among black and white inpatients admitted for coronary heart disease
OBJECTIVES. This study examined health care-seeking behaviors to elucidate factors that contribute to differences in patterns of coronary heart disease between African Americans and Whites. The prevalence of diagnosed coronary heart disease, patients' perceptions of symptoms and attribution of symptoms, and predictors of painful symptoms and attribution of cardiac symptoms were examined. METHODS. The study involved 2416 patients admitted with dia…
Inequality in infant morbidity: Causes and consequences in England in the 1990s. ALSPAC Study Team. Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of deprivation, crowding, maternal smoking, and breast feeding on morbidity from wheeze and diarrhoea in the first six months after birth. DESIGN: A geographically located population survey using maternal responses on self completion questionnaires. SETTING: The three health districts of Bristol. SUBJECTS: 8501 infants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ALSPAC) in which all women ex…
Plautus: The Comedies
Persa, Palmer Bovie Menaechmi, Palmer Bovie Cistellaria, R.H.W. Dillard Pseudolus, Richard Beacham Stichus, Carol Poster and Vidularia, John Wright
Forging the job: A crisis of 'modernization' or redundancy for the police in England and Wales, 1900-39
After 1918, policing 'modernized' by switching resources from drunks and vagrants to motorists and indictable offenders. Since the late nineteenth century, traditional preventive policing practices had been under threat. By the end of the first world war a crisis had developed when the Exchequer replaced municipal authorities as the dominant paymaster, policy pay soared, and police numbers were frozen. Suddenly, the police began to report escalat…
A Tool for Supporting the Teaching of Parallel Database Systems
Parallel database systems are complex entities. When teaching about these systems as part of a course in a limited time, one has difficulty providing useful practical experience that gives a deep insight into system behavior and operation. This paper describes a tool for performance prediction that has been developed to aid the visualization of parallel database systems and that is currently being used to support teaching. The tool enables studen…
SP5-30 Evaluating the implementation of trachomoa treatment guidelines in Australia
Introduction Trachoma control guidelines for the WHO recommend the SAFE strategy which includes surgery for trichiasis, antibiotic treatment, facial cleanliness and environmental improvement. Australia is the only developed country where trachoma persists. In contrast to other countries, it has largely been assumed that lack of access to antibiotics and health services is not a major contributor to the persistence of trachoma in Australia. We ass…
Refugees, the State and the Concept of Home
Journal Article Refugees, the State and the Concept of Home Get access Helen Taylor Helen Taylor * * University of East London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 130–152, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdt004 Published: 22 April 2013
The Ethics and Impact of Digital Immortality
The concept of digital immortality has emerged over the past decade and is defined here as the continuation of an active or passive digital presence after death. Advances in knowledge management, machine to machine communication, data mining and artificial intelligence are now making a more active presence after death possible. This paper examines the research and literature around active digital immortality and explores the emotional, social, fi…
Attention, Psychology, and Pluralism
There is an overriding orthodoxy amongst philosophers that attention is a ‘unified phenomenon’, subject to explanation by one monistic theory. In this article, I examine whether this philosophical orthodoxy is reflected in the practice of psychology. I argue that the view of attention that best represents psychological work is a variety of conceptual pluralism. When it comes to the psychology of attention, monism should be rejected and pluralism …
Fuzziness in the Mind: Can Perception be Unconscious
Recently, a new movement has arisen in the philosophy of perception: one that views perception as a natural kind. Strangely, this movement has neglected the extensive work in philosophy of science on natural kinds. The present paper remedies this. I start by isolating a widespread and influential assumption, which is that we can give necessary and sufficient conditions for perception. I show that this assumption is radically at odds with current …
Emotions, concepts and the indeterminacy of natural kinds
A central question for philosophical psychology is which mental faculties form natural kinds. There is hot debate over the kind status of faculties as diverse as consciousness, seeing, concepts, emotions, constancy and the senses. In this paper, I take emotions and concepts as my main focus, and argue that questions over the kind status of these faculties are complicated by the undeservedly overlooked fact that natural kinds are indeterminate in …
Whales, fish and Alaskan bears: Interest-relative taxonomy and kind pluralism in biology
This paper uses two case studies to explore an interest-relative view of taxonomy and how it complements kind pluralism in biology. First, I consider the ABC island bear, which can be correctly classified into more than one species. I argue that this classificatory pluralism can be explained by reference to the range of alternative explanatory interests in biology. In the second half of the paper, I pursue an interest-relative view of classificat…
Spatial distribution of human capital in Romania
Human capital reflects the knowledge, competencies, and health people invest in and accumulate throughout their lives. Therefore, investing in people's health, education, and skills is essential to developing human capital. The evaluation of human capital is very important for understanding the premises for future development at a territorial level and the impact that different development trajectories may have on economic performance and populat…
Consciousness as a natural kind and the methodological puzzle of consciousness
A new research programme conceives of consciousness as a natural kind. One proposed virtue of this approach is that it can help resolve the methodological puzzle of consciousness, which involves distinguishing consciousness from cognitive access. The present article raises a novel problem for this approach. The problem is rooted in the fact that there may be episodes of conscious experience that have not been classified as such. I argue that conc…
Compound powerful qualities: Properties as compounds of distinct powers and qualities
This paper develops and defends a compound powerful qualities view of properties. According to this view, properties are essentially composed of distinct powerful and qualitative elements. First, I outline an argument for the compound powerful qualities view, based on the claim that it has the explanatory power of other views, without incurring their costs. Second, I argue that the view has the resources to explain how properties are individuated…
Powerful Qualities and the Metaphysics of Properties
In debates about the metaphysics of properties, many have claimed that properties are powers. According to the powers view, a property's nature disposes objects to behave in certain ways in response to certain stimuli. For example, the property of fragility disposes objects to smash when a force is applied to them. But how should we understand powers? There has recently been a surge of interest in the powerful qualities view of properties. Other …
A culture of their own? culture in robot-robot interaction
This paper presents a framework for studying culture in the context of robot-robot interaction (RRI). We examine the claim that groups of robots can share a culture, even independently of their relationship with humans. At the centre of our framework is a recognition that ‘culture’ is a concept that can be defined and understood in many different ways. As we demonstrate, which definition of ‘culture’ one employs has important consequences for the…
Can an AI system be conscious
Consciousness interpreted: An interpretation of Dennett’s view of consciousness
Dennett’s work has had a profound impact on philosophical and scientific understanding of consciousness. However, interpreting Dennett’s work on consciousness is notoriously challenging. Some have even suggested that his ideas are contradictory. This paper develops and defends an interpretation of Dennett’s views, on which consciousness is a real pattern. I argue that this interpretation can make sense of some initially puzzling features of the v…
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