Robert Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3598273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hamilton College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6119-764X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Human behaviors during the Covid-19 pandemic and their consequences
COVID-19 accounted for about 1.1 million deaths in the United States, 365,000 in 2020 alone, and about 7 million worldwide. Due to underreporting, the actual global COVID-19-related deaths were likely between 15 and 30 million, with around 4 million in 2020. As devastating as these numbers were, without any behavioral changes—whether voluntary or mandated—deaths in the United States would have been about 8 million, and global deaths about 115 mil…
Adaptation constraints and prospects for future research priorities in lowland rice-based farming systems: Learning experiences from Northwest Cambodia
Sustainable agricultural development not only addresses global food insecurity but may also alleviate poverty by enriching the lives of millions of smallholder farmers. Improving the sustainability and profitability of agriculture where smallholders are dominant creates profound impacts because small landholding farmers produce approximately 70–80% of the global food. The need for a thorough understanding of the factors affecting farmers’ adoptio…
Teacher Differences in Beliefs and Perceptions About Sustainable Agriculture: Influence on the Teaching of High School Agriculture Curriculum
The purpose of the study was to determine agriculture teacher differences in beliefs and perceptions about sustainable agriculture (SA) and the associations of these with the teaching of SA in the 12 states of the Midwest US. A descriptive design using self-administered structured questionnaires with Likert measurements was adopted. A stratified random sample of 844 teachers were self-administered the questionnaires. Data were analyzed by ANOVA b…
Testing the babble hypothesis: Speaking time predicts leader emergence in small groups
La norme comme universel du langage
The norm can be thought of as a universal monitoring function common to all languages. There are many arguments to support this viewpoint. The norm can be seen as twofold. One of its functions is set within language as a system so that on the one hand it monitors and restricts the unlimited regularities a language has and, on the other, it controls purely local regularities which can thereby be assimilated to irregularity. This aspect echoes the …
Jasper M. Trautsch. The Genesis of America: U. S. Foreign Policy and the Formation of National Identity, 1793–1815
The emergence of an American national identity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries presents something of a puzzle. Though English peoples and culture played a predominant role, a relatively diverse population settled what had been British North America. Despite lacking a single shared history, culture, or ancestry—at least compared to the European antecedents—citizens of the new country came to see themselves as “Americans” by t…
A ‘Peaceable and Orderly Manner’: Town Meetings and other Popular Assemblies in the American Founding
The New England town meeting has often been seen as the archetypical deliberative citizen forum (see, e.g., Mansbridge 1980). More recently, political theorists have begun to appreciate the way in which any particular public forum might be better understood as part of the larger deliberative system (Parkinson, Mansbridge, 2012). Much of this work draws on modern-day examples (Parkinson 2006). But a return to the American founding era reveals that…
Climate change impacts on rainfed cropping production systems in the tropics and the case of smallholder farms in North-west Cambodia
Navigating Without a Roadmap: Challenges of Early Alzheimer’s Caregivers With Their Health Care Team
Caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer's disease are willing to make large sacrifices to attend to the everyday demands of their loved one's health. Many still lack the necessary skills, information, and resources from medical professionals needed to fully execute this role. The aim of this study is to explore the challenges that first-time Alzheimer's caregivers encountered with members of their health care team around a loved one's diagnosis.…
Les concepts universels
Martin Robert. Les concepts universels. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 160e année, N. 2, 2016. pp. 975-1008
Response to Jason Frank’s review of Government by Dissent: Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic
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L’école des Chartes et l’histoire de la langue
Martin Robert. L’école des Chartes et l’histoire de la langue. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 159e année, N. 4, 2015. pp. 1491-1498
James Madison and Popular Government: The Neglected Case of the “Memorial
James Madison has long been seen as a liberal thinker and in many respects an elitist one. More recently, a few efforts have been made to understand him as a consistent and even "fervent" democrat, at least after 1790. This article re-examines a classic source for Madison's early liberalism, the "Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments" (1785), to establish Madison's pre-1790 analysis of—and genuine commitment to—the popular eleme…
British Political Thought in History, Literature, and Theory, 1500–1800 and Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought
British Political Thought in History, Literature, and Theory, 1500–1800. Edited by David Armitage. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 338p. $90.00. Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Edited by Annabel Brett and James Tully with Holly Hamilton-Bleakley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 308p. $90.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. Scholars organizing conferences—and subsequently seeking to publish the ensuing conferenc…
The rule of law in Zimbabwe
The relevance of the concept of the rule of law in the development of modern Zimbabwe is considered alongside the diplomatic and political events of colonialism and liberation. While the rule of law was observed in the 1980s, successive constitutional amendments led to a strengthening of presidential power and a consequent weakening of the safeguards against oppression. As the violence associated with the seizure of land escalated, the author des…
Between Consensus and Conflict: Habermas, Post-Modern Agonism and the Early American Public Sphere
Efforts thus far to bridge the distance between Habermasian public sphere theory and post-modernism have failed, and recent studies only reify the bifurcation. Some theorists trace this problem to misreadings of Habermas's recent works that overemphasize the weight he places on consensus. I argue instead that Habermas's stress on consensus is genuine and first emerged in his early historical work on the public sphere, wherein he focused on an abs…
The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640-1800
The current, heated debates over hate speech and pornography were preceded by the equally contentious debates over the and open in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thus far little scholarly attention has been focused on the development of the concept of political press freedom even though it is a form of civil liberty that was pioneered in the United States. But the establishment of press liberty had implications that reached far beyond …
Sur le statut sémantique de il y a1
On sait que B. Russell considérait il existe (et conséquemment il y a) comme un quantificateur et non pas comme un prédicat. Il existe et il y a entrent aisément, en effet, dans la traduction du quantificateur logique dit « existentiel ». Mais il ne faut pas oublier le rôle que tient l’article (il existe/il y a un x, tel que...) : linguistiquement, toutes sortes d’arguments imposent de placer il existe et il y a du côté des prédicats
Promoting freedom of expression in the Commonwealth
When the 1991 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting adopted the Harare Declaration, it committed the Commonwealth to 'democracy, democratic processes and institutions, the rule of law and fundamental human rights'. The essential precondition to achieving these goals is freedom of expression. Were free expression to be limited throughout the Commonwealth, the Declaration could become a hollow historical curiosity. The Commonwealth Association f…
“Girls don't talk about garages!”: Perceptions of conversation in same‐ and cross‐sex friendships
This investigation examined respondents’perceptions of differences in the conversational behavior of same‐sex friends and cross‐sex friends. Respondents read brief transcripts of conversations from which all obvious gender identifiers had been removed and then were asked to indicate whether the conversations were between male friends, female friends, or cross‐sex friends and to specify what features of the conversations had led them to their judg…
Context and Contradiction: Toward a Political Theory of Conceptual Change
Context and Contradiction: Toward a Political Theory of Conceptual Change
This article addresses several recurring questions regarding the study of the history of political thought. It does so through theoretical explora tion and practical application. First, conceptual history, a recent sympa thetic alternative to the "Cambridge School" of Quentin Skinner, J. G. A. Pocock, and others, is drawn on in order to outline a general theory of the actual conditions and processes through which politically significant conceptua…
"La monovalence de la négation et l'hypothèse de "complétude
La thèse défendue est que la négation linguistique est une négation monovalente : au positif, elle oppose strictement le négatif. Le principal obstacle à une telle conception est la nécessité de recourir à la valeur intermédiaire du "plus ou moins vrai". Si Pierre est plutôt jeune est vrai, alors Pierre est jeune est "plus ou moins vrai". L'hypothèse avancée est une "hypothèse de complétude". De même qu'une prédication complexe peut être niée en …
Relational cognition complexity and relational communication in personal relationships
This investigation examined the influence of individual differences in relational cognition complexity on patterns of relational communication in personal relationships. Relational cognition complexity of members of married couples was assessed via the Relational Cognition Complexity Instrument (RCCI). Couples discussed topics which were salient and non‐salient for their relationship and the recorded conversations were transcribed and reliably co…
Irony and universe of belief
Examining Personal Relationship Thinking: The Relational Cognition Complexity Instrument
A review of the literature demonstrates that `relationship thinking' is a central factor influencing the behavior of personal relationship participants. The present investigation examined the psychometric properties of an instrument designed to assess individual levels of relational cognition complexity, a structural quality of relationship thinking. Scores obtained via the Relational Cognition Complexity Instrument (RCCI) were found to have mode…
Irony and universe of belief
Relational cognition complexity and relational communication in personal relationships
This investigation examined the influence of individual differences in relational cognition complexity on patterns of relational communication in personal relationships. Relational cognition complexity of members of married couples was assessed via the Relational Cognition Complexity Instrument (RCCI). Couples discussed topics which were salient and non‐salient for their relationship and the recorded conversations were transcribed and reliably co…
Between Consensus and Conflict: Habermas, Post-Modern Agonism and the Early American Public Sphere
Efforts thus far to bridge the distance between Habermasian public sphere theory and post-modernism have failed, and recent studies only reify the bifurcation. Some theorists trace this problem to misreadings of Habermas's recent works that overemphasize the weight he places on consensus. I argue instead that Habermas's stress on consensus is genuine and first emerged in his early historical work on the public sphere, wherein he focused on an abs…
Context and Contradiction: Toward a Political Theory of Conceptual Change
This article addresses several recurring questions regarding the study of the history of political thought. It does so through theoretical explora tion and practical application. First, conceptual history, a recent sympa thetic alternative to the "Cambridge School" of Quentin Skinner, J. G. A. Pocock, and others, is drawn on in order to outline a general theory of the actual conditions and processes through which politically significant conceptua…
James Madison and Popular Government: The Neglected Case of the “Memorial
James Madison has long been seen as a liberal thinker and in many respects an elitist one. More recently, a few efforts have been made to understand him as a consistent and even "fervent" democrat, at least after 1790. This article re-examines a classic source for Madison's early liberalism, the "Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments" (1785), to establish Madison's pre-1790 analysis of—and genuine commitment to—the popular eleme…
Le futur linguistique: Temps linéaire ou temps ramifié
Martin Robert. Le futur linguistique : temps linéaire ou temps ramifié ?. In: Langages, 15e année, n°64, 1981. Le temps grammatical [logiques temporelles et analyse linguistique] pp. 81-92
Temps linguistique et temps logique
Martin Robert, Nef Frédéric. Temps linguistique et temps logique. In: Langages, 15e année, n°64, 1981. Le temps grammatical [logiques temporelles et analyse linguistique] pp. 7-20
The rule of law in Zimbabwe
The relevance of the concept of the rule of law in the development of modern Zimbabwe is considered alongside the diplomatic and political events of colonialism and liberation. While the rule of law was observed in the 1980s, successive constitutional amendments led to a strengthening of presidential power and a consequent weakening of the safeguards against oppression. As the violence associated with the seizure of land escalated, the author des…
Building Independent Mass Media in Africa
The 1980s were a terrible time for Africa. The decade began auspiciously enough - Nigeria had returned to civilian rule, the Tanzania People's Defence Force had sent Idi Amin packing, and the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe was about to win independence. But this promising beginning was quickly transformed and Africa sunk into its 'lost decade
Aspects de la phrase analytique
Martin Robert. Aspects de la phrase analytique. In: Langages, 20e année, n°79, 1985. Générique et généricité, sous la direction de Michel Galmiche et Georges Kleiber. pp. 40-54
"L'opérateur intensionnel "savoir
Robert. Martin: The Intensional operator «savoir» (to know). It is undertaken to explain that the following forms * Je ne sais pas que p (I do not know that p) * Je sais si p (I know if p), which present difficulties of reception, may however be used under certain conditions, notably in connection with the verb «dire» (to say): Je ne sais pas que p = «Je dirai/tu diras que je ne sais pas que p») (1 do not know that p = «I will say /You will say t…
Personal Freedom and the Law in Tanzania. A Study of Socialist State Administration
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
The Use of State Power to Overcome Underdevelopment
It appears that in order to be a respectable Africanist, by which I mean simply a scholar whose interest, regardless of discipline, is focused on Africa, one must be a Marxist. Let me quickly add that I am, at least in the abstract, not opposed to this, particularly since I like to consider myself in some way part of that intellectual and political tradition. But the growth of the Marxism industry has not been without, to use the jargon, its cont…
The Behavioural Physiology of Animals and Man
Personal Freedom and the Law in Tanzania
Teaching Law in Kenya: A Personal Footnote
ResumeCet article décrit la situation politique generale au Kenya et en particulier le climat social et intellectual de l’Universite de Nairobi. Se concentrant sur les émeutes qui ont eu lieu à l’Université en mai 1975, l’article décrit l’arrestation de l’auteur et sa detention par les autorités nationales, présentant ainsi l’operation du système juridique du Kenya de la perspective d’une de ces victimes. Il suggère des conclusions concernant les…
The Ombudsman in Zambia
The implementation of the principle of legality in public administration depends upon the existence of a number of factors. Most important among these are a government which is more or less committed to upholding the principle, a citizenry which is both aware of its legal rights and prepared to resist attempts at infringing them, and institutions through which such challenges can be prosecuted
Personal Freedom and the Law in Tanzania. A Study of Socialist State Administration
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
The Use of State Power to Overcome Underdevelopment
It appears that in order to be a respectable Africanist, by which I mean simply a scholar whose interest, regardless of discipline, is focused on Africa, one must be a Marxist. Let me quickly add that I am, at least in the abstract, not opposed to this, particularly since I like to consider myself in some way part of that intellectual and political tradition. But the growth of the Marxism industry has not been without, to use the jargon, its cont…
Temps linguistique et temps logique
Martin Robert, Nef Frédéric. Temps linguistique et temps logique. In: Langages, 15e année, n°64, 1981. Le temps grammatical [logiques temporelles et analyse linguistique] pp. 7-20
Le futur linguistique: Temps linéaire ou temps ramifié
Martin Robert. Le futur linguistique : temps linéaire ou temps ramifié ?. In: Langages, 15e année, n°64, 1981. Le temps grammatical [logiques temporelles et analyse linguistique] pp. 81-92
Political Activity and the Journalist: A Paradox
The denial of the right of working journalists to engage in a political activity is justified on the ground of maintaining their appearance of objectivity. It is paradoxical, and, in the view of the authors, unacceptable as a matter of principle, that the freedom of speech of individual journalists should be limited in the name of freedom of the press
Libel and Class
The article attempts to present a social analysis of Canadian libel law. It argues that the law is expressly biased against poor and working-class plaintiffs. This is anomalous in terms of the central ideological postulate of bourgeois legal systems -- equality before the law
"L'opérateur intensionnel "savoir
Robert. Martin: The Intensional operator «savoir» (to know). It is undertaken to explain that the following forms * Je ne sais pas que p (I do not know that p) * Je sais si p (I know if p), which present difficulties of reception, may however be used under certain conditions, notably in connection with the verb «dire» (to say): Je ne sais pas que p = «Je dirai/tu diras que je ne sais pas que p») (1 do not know that p = «I will say /You will say t…
La notion d' univers de croyance dans la définition du nom propre
Tanzania: Reality and Myth
The Law Union of Ontario
The Law Union of Ontario is an attempt by a small group of lawyers in an advanced capitalist society to engage in organized progressive political and legal work. This has not been easy nor has it been entirely successful
Aspects de la phrase analytique
Martin Robert. Aspects de la phrase analytique. In: Langages, 20e année, n°79, 1985. Générique et généricité, sous la direction de Michel Galmiche et Georges Kleiber. pp. 40-54
Re-thinking 'Law and Development
Any writing that purports to address African reality today must take as its starting point the international economy. Small states, which are both economically and politically weak, have very little room for manoeuvre within the global system, even at the best of times. The present international depression has circumscribed their freedom of action even further. Still, African states must do something. They must seek to address existing conditions…
Examining Personal Relationship Thinking: The Relational Cognition Complexity Instrument
A review of the literature demonstrates that `relationship thinking' is a central factor influencing the behavior of personal relationship participants. The present investigation examined the psychometric properties of an instrument designed to assess individual levels of relational cognition complexity, a structural quality of relationship thinking. Scores obtained via the Relational Cognition Complexity Instrument (RCCI) were found to have mode…
Relational cognition complexity and relational communication in personal relationships
This investigation examined the influence of individual differences in relational cognition complexity on patterns of relational communication in personal relationships. Relational cognition complexity of members of married couples was assessed via the Relational Cognition Complexity Instrument (RCCI). Couples discussed topics which were salient and non‐salient for their relationship and the recorded conversations were transcribed and reliably co…
Irony and universe of belief
Building Independent Mass Media in Africa
The 1980s were a terrible time for Africa. The decade began auspiciously enough - Nigeria had returned to civilian rule, the Tanzania People's Defence Force had sent Idi Amin packing, and the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe was about to win independence. But this promising beginning was quickly transformed and Africa sunk into its 'lost decade
"La monovalence de la négation et l'hypothèse de "complétude
La thèse défendue est que la négation linguistique est une négation monovalente : au positif, elle oppose strictement le négatif. Le principal obstacle à une telle conception est la nécessité de recourir à la valeur intermédiaire du "plus ou moins vrai". Si Pierre est plutôt jeune est vrai, alors Pierre est jeune est "plus ou moins vrai". L'hypothèse avancée est une "hypothèse de complétude". De même qu'une prédication complexe peut être niée en …
“Girls don't talk about garages!”: Perceptions of conversation in same‐ and cross‐sex friendships
This investigation examined respondents’perceptions of differences in the conversational behavior of same‐sex friends and cross‐sex friends. Respondents read brief transcripts of conversations from which all obvious gender identifiers had been removed and then were asked to indicate whether the conversations were between male friends, female friends, or cross‐sex friends and to specify what features of the conversations had led them to their judg…
Context and Contradiction: Toward a Political Theory of Conceptual Change
Context and Contradiction: Toward a Political Theory of Conceptual Change
This article addresses several recurring questions regarding the study of the history of political thought. It does so through theoretical explora tion and practical application. First, conceptual history, a recent sympa thetic alternative to the "Cambridge School" of Quentin Skinner, J. G. A. Pocock, and others, is drawn on in order to outline a general theory of the actual conditions and processes through which politically significant conceptua…
Sur le statut sémantique de il y a1
On sait que B. Russell considérait il existe (et conséquemment il y a) comme un quantificateur et non pas comme un prédicat. Il existe et il y a entrent aisément, en effet, dans la traduction du quantificateur logique dit « existentiel ». Mais il ne faut pas oublier le rôle que tient l’article (il existe/il y a un x, tel que...) : linguistiquement, toutes sortes d’arguments imposent de placer il existe et il y a du côté des prédicats
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