Emily Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2390-6932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Trust, trauma and the ‘postcode lottery’: Support for parents with a learning disability after their children are removed
Parents with learning disabilities in England are disproportionately subject to child protection intervention and child removal, yet post-removal support remains uneven and poorly understood. This study examined what support adult and children’s social care and allied agencies provided to these parents, and how professional relationships shaped both access to services and trust. The interviews with nine parents recruited via advocacy and voluntar…
Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe‐Stephen, and Temporal Experience
From the late 1870s, philosophers became fascinated by the nature of human temporal experience. This paper focuses on two 1910s contributions to this field, both concerned with our experience of temporal relations. In May 1913, Bertrand Russell drafted what would become his oft-cited 1915 Monist article, “On the Experience of Time.” From 1912 to 1919, fellow Cambridge philosopher Karin Costelloe-Stephen authored a series of texts on the subject. …
Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain puts the work of nineteenth-century women philosophers into conversation around issues such as naturalism, mind, and morality. It is a bold and pioneering study, fluently written and admirably clear. This book should quickly, and rightly, become essential reading for all scholars of the period.Stone focuses on the work of twelve women, as follows (3–5). Mary Shepherd (1777–1847) is perhaps best kno…
Quare(-in) the Mainstream: YouTube, Social Media and Augmented Realities in Lil Nas X’s Montero
Mary Calkins, Victoria Welby, and the spatialization of time
This paper explores a trans-Atlantic clash about time: in 1899, American philosopher Mary Calkins argued we should not spatialize time; in 1899, British philosopher Victoria Welby argued we should. I take their disagreement as a starting point to contextualize, study, and compare the accounts of time presented in their respective articles. Both Calkins and Welby cared deeply about time, writing on the topic across their careers, but their views h…
The obsession with time in 1880s–1930s American-British philosophy
In American-British philosophy around the turn of the twentieth century, every philosopher and their dog had something to say on time. Thinkers worried about our experience of time, and the metaphysics of time. This introduction to the special issue, Time in American-British Philosophy 1880s-1930s, investigates that obsession, explaining how its philosophers spilled pints of ink on time, and produced the first-ever surveys of time. I historically…
Reasons for Not Adopting Covid-19 Permitted Changes to Legal Duties: Accounts from English Local Authorities
In England, “easements,” introduced via the Coronavirus Act 2020, were brought in at the start of the pandemic to support English local authority adult social care services. They enabled local authorities to suspend some of their mandatory duties under the Care Act 2014. Easements were only adopted by eight local authorities and for short periods, and the provision was rescinded in late 2021. This article examines why a sample of 16 local authori…
The Views of Practitioners on Care Act Easements during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The easements of the Care Act 2014, permitted by the Coronavirus Act 2020, were in place in very few English local authorities and then only for a short time, but they still rippled across the wider social care workforce. This paper reports findings from interviews with social workers in ten non-easement authorities and with other professionals in easement and non-easement authorities to explore their understandings of easements and their reflect…
The Lab as a Classroom: Advancing Faculty Research Through Undergraduate Experiential Education
Both undergraduate students and faculty members face a challenging job market that requires innovative approaches to skill development and research products. Moreover, entrenched approaches to research and education reinforce traditional hierarchies, exclusionary norms, and exploitative practices. This article describes a lab-based pedagogical framework designed to support faculty research goals and student learning and, simultaneously, to attenu…
Changing English Local Authority Duties by the Adoption of Easements in the Covid-19 Pandemic; Findings from an Interview-Based Study
This article reports findings from a study on the effect of the adjustments or ‘easements’ that were made to the 2014 Care Act when measures to manage the impact of COVID-19 were introduced in England in 2020. Only eight local authorities (LAs) implemented the changes permitted. The experiences of five are explored in this article. Data were collected in 2021 through interviews with Directors of Adult Social Services and other senior managers in …
Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptability and Financial Incentives among Unhoused People in Los Angeles County: A Three-Stage Field Survey
Unhoused people have higher COVID-19 mortality and lower vaccine uptake than housed community members. Understanding vaccine hesitancy among unhoused people is key for developing programs that address their unique needs. A three-round, rapid, field-based survey was conducted to describe attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination. Round 1 assessed vaccine brand preference, round 2 assessed intention to accept a financial incentive for vaccination, and …
The Coronavirus Act’s Easements to the Care Act 2014: A Pragmatic Response or a Red Herring
Easements to the Care Act 2014 were introduced in England in Spring 2020 to support local authorities (LAs) who were dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on adult social care. They were adopted by a small number of LAs that only kept them in place for a very short period. This article draws on the limited literature covering easements and on a synthesis of the views of twenty key informants with professional experiences of social care policy, advo…
Anne Conway as a Priority Monist: A Reply to Gordon-Roth
For early modern metaphysician Anne Conway, the world comprises creatures. In some sense, Conway is a monist about creatures: all creatures are one. Yet, as Jessica Gordon-Roth (2018) has astutely pointed out, that monism can be understood in very different ways. One might read Conway as an ‘existence pluralist’: creatures are all composed of the same type of substance, but many substances exist. Alternatively, one might read Conway as an ‘existe…
A Continental Interlude
This chapter describes the absolutisms of two Continental Europeans: Jan Baptist van Helmont and Pierre Gassendi. These figures are important to us in part because it has been argued that later British writers pick up on their ideas. On Van Helmont’s absolutism, time emanates from God. On Gassendi’s absolutism, space and time are incorporeal, dimensional beings that can be occupied by bodies; it is unclear how they relate to God. The final part o…
Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics
What is time? Traditionally, it has been answered that time is a product of the human mind, or the motion of celestial bodies. In the mid-seventeenth century, a new kind of answer emerged: time or eternal duration is ‘absolute’, in the sense it is independent of human minds and material bodies. This study explores the development of absolute time or eternal duration during one of Britain’s richest and most creative metaphysical periods, from the …
Early Modern Women on Metaphysics
The work of women philosophers in the early modern period has traditionally been overlooked, yet their writing on topics such as reality, time, mind and matter holds valuable lessons for our understanding of metaphysics and its history. This volume of new essays explores the work of nine key female figures: Bathsua Makin, Anna Maria van Schurman, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris Cudworth Masham, Mary Astell, Catharin…
Creation, Divine Freedom, and Catharine Cockburn
This chapter argues that Catharine Cockburn occupies an original and unique position in the debate surrounding God’s freedom and the intellectualist/voluntarist dispute. While she advances an intellectualist position—according to which God knows what is morally right, and his will is constrained to create within the confines of his knowledge—for Cockburn, God nonetheless enjoys a broad range of options. This position is defended by looking at Coc…
Patients’ experiences managing cardiovascular disease and risk factors in prison
BACKGROUND: Despite greater risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in patients with a history of incarceration, little is known about how prisons manage CVD risk factors (CVD-RF) to mitigate this risk. METHODS: = 26). These individuals were recruited through community flyers and a primary care clinic in Connecticut. Using a grounded theory approach and the constant comparative method, we inductively generated themes about CVD-RF care in p…
Henry More and the development of absolute time
Catharine Cockburn on Unthinking Immaterial Substance: Souls, Space, and Related Matters
The early modern Catharine Cockburn wrote on a wide range of philosophical issues and recent years have seen an increasing interest in her work. This paper explores her thesis that immaterial substance need not think. Drawing on existing scholarship, I explore the origin of this thesis in Cockburn and show how she applies it in a novel way to space. This thesis provides a particularly useful entry point into Cockburn's philosophy, as it emphasise…
Quality of Life in Health Care. Advances in Medical Sociology, Vol. 5
Changing English Local Authority Duties by the Adoption of Easements in the Covid-19 Pandemic; Findings from an Interview-Based Study
This article reports findings from a study on the effect of the adjustments or ‘easements’ that were made to the 2014 Care Act when measures to manage the impact of COVID-19 were introduced in England in 2020. Only eight local authorities (LAs) implemented the changes permitted. The experiences of five are explored in this article. Data were collected in 2021 through interviews with Directors of Adult Social Services and other senior managers in …
Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptability and Financial Incentives among Unhoused People in Los Angeles County: A Three-Stage Field Survey
Unhoused people have higher COVID-19 mortality and lower vaccine uptake than housed community members. Understanding vaccine hesitancy among unhoused people is key for developing programs that address their unique needs. A three-round, rapid, field-based survey was conducted to describe attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination. Round 1 assessed vaccine brand preference, round 2 assessed intention to accept a financial incentive for vaccination, and …
The Coronavirus Act’s Easements to the Care Act 2014: A Pragmatic Response or a Red Herring
Easements to the Care Act 2014 were introduced in England in Spring 2020 to support local authorities (LAs) who were dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on adult social care. They were adopted by a small number of LAs that only kept them in place for a very short period. This article draws on the limited literature covering easements and on a synthesis of the views of twenty key informants with professional experiences of social care policy, advo…
Quality of Life in Health Care. Advances in Medical Sociology, Vol. 5
Henry More and the development of absolute time
Catharine Cockburn on Unthinking Immaterial Substance: Souls, Space, and Related Matters
The early modern Catharine Cockburn wrote on a wide range of philosophical issues and recent years have seen an increasing interest in her work. This paper explores her thesis that immaterial substance need not think. Drawing on existing scholarship, I explore the origin of this thesis in Cockburn and show how she applies it in a novel way to space. This thesis provides a particularly useful entry point into Cockburn's philosophy, as it emphasise…
Patients’ experiences managing cardiovascular disease and risk factors in prison
BACKGROUND: Despite greater risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in patients with a history of incarceration, little is known about how prisons manage CVD risk factors (CVD-RF) to mitigate this risk. METHODS: = 26). These individuals were recruited through community flyers and a primary care clinic in Connecticut. Using a grounded theory approach and the constant comparative method, we inductively generated themes about CVD-RF care in p…
Creation, Divine Freedom, and Catharine Cockburn
This chapter argues that Catharine Cockburn occupies an original and unique position in the debate surrounding God’s freedom and the intellectualist/voluntarist dispute. While she advances an intellectualist position—according to which God knows what is morally right, and his will is constrained to create within the confines of his knowledge—for Cockburn, God nonetheless enjoys a broad range of options. This position is defended by looking at Coc…
A Continental Interlude
This chapter describes the absolutisms of two Continental Europeans: Jan Baptist van Helmont and Pierre Gassendi. These figures are important to us in part because it has been argued that later British writers pick up on their ideas. On Van Helmont’s absolutism, time emanates from God. On Gassendi’s absolutism, space and time are incorporeal, dimensional beings that can be occupied by bodies; it is unclear how they relate to God. The final part o…
Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics
What is time? Traditionally, it has been answered that time is a product of the human mind, or the motion of celestial bodies. In the mid-seventeenth century, a new kind of answer emerged: time or eternal duration is ‘absolute’, in the sense it is independent of human minds and material bodies. This study explores the development of absolute time or eternal duration during one of Britain’s richest and most creative metaphysical periods, from the …
Early Modern Women on Metaphysics
The work of women philosophers in the early modern period has traditionally been overlooked, yet their writing on topics such as reality, time, mind and matter holds valuable lessons for our understanding of metaphysics and its history. This volume of new essays explores the work of nine key female figures: Bathsua Makin, Anna Maria van Schurman, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris Cudworth Masham, Mary Astell, Catharin…
Anne Conway as a Priority Monist: A Reply to Gordon-Roth
For early modern metaphysician Anne Conway, the world comprises creatures. In some sense, Conway is a monist about creatures: all creatures are one. Yet, as Jessica Gordon-Roth (2018) has astutely pointed out, that monism can be understood in very different ways. One might read Conway as an ‘existence pluralist’: creatures are all composed of the same type of substance, but many substances exist. Alternatively, one might read Conway as an ‘existe…
Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptability and Financial Incentives among Unhoused People in Los Angeles County: A Three-Stage Field Survey
Unhoused people have higher COVID-19 mortality and lower vaccine uptake than housed community members. Understanding vaccine hesitancy among unhoused people is key for developing programs that address their unique needs. A three-round, rapid, field-based survey was conducted to describe attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination. Round 1 assessed vaccine brand preference, round 2 assessed intention to accept a financial incentive for vaccination, and …
The Coronavirus Act’s Easements to the Care Act 2014: A Pragmatic Response or a Red Herring
Easements to the Care Act 2014 were introduced in England in Spring 2020 to support local authorities (LAs) who were dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on adult social care. They were adopted by a small number of LAs that only kept them in place for a very short period. This article draws on the limited literature covering easements and on a synthesis of the views of twenty key informants with professional experiences of social care policy, advo…
Quare(-in) the Mainstream: YouTube, Social Media and Augmented Realities in Lil Nas X’s Montero
Mary Calkins, Victoria Welby, and the spatialization of time
This paper explores a trans-Atlantic clash about time: in 1899, American philosopher Mary Calkins argued we should not spatialize time; in 1899, British philosopher Victoria Welby argued we should. I take their disagreement as a starting point to contextualize, study, and compare the accounts of time presented in their respective articles. Both Calkins and Welby cared deeply about time, writing on the topic across their careers, but their views h…
The obsession with time in 1880s–1930s American-British philosophy
In American-British philosophy around the turn of the twentieth century, every philosopher and their dog had something to say on time. Thinkers worried about our experience of time, and the metaphysics of time. This introduction to the special issue, Time in American-British Philosophy 1880s-1930s, investigates that obsession, explaining how its philosophers spilled pints of ink on time, and produced the first-ever surveys of time. I historically…
Reasons for Not Adopting Covid-19 Permitted Changes to Legal Duties: Accounts from English Local Authorities
In England, “easements,” introduced via the Coronavirus Act 2020, were brought in at the start of the pandemic to support English local authority adult social care services. They enabled local authorities to suspend some of their mandatory duties under the Care Act 2014. Easements were only adopted by eight local authorities and for short periods, and the provision was rescinded in late 2021. This article examines why a sample of 16 local authori…
The Views of Practitioners on Care Act Easements during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The easements of the Care Act 2014, permitted by the Coronavirus Act 2020, were in place in very few English local authorities and then only for a short time, but they still rippled across the wider social care workforce. This paper reports findings from interviews with social workers in ten non-easement authorities and with other professionals in easement and non-easement authorities to explore their understandings of easements and their reflect…
The Lab as a Classroom: Advancing Faculty Research Through Undergraduate Experiential Education
Both undergraduate students and faculty members face a challenging job market that requires innovative approaches to skill development and research products. Moreover, entrenched approaches to research and education reinforce traditional hierarchies, exclusionary norms, and exploitative practices. This article describes a lab-based pedagogical framework designed to support faculty research goals and student learning and, simultaneously, to attenu…
Changing English Local Authority Duties by the Adoption of Easements in the Covid-19 Pandemic; Findings from an Interview-Based Study
This article reports findings from a study on the effect of the adjustments or ‘easements’ that were made to the 2014 Care Act when measures to manage the impact of COVID-19 were introduced in England in 2020. Only eight local authorities (LAs) implemented the changes permitted. The experiences of five are explored in this article. Data were collected in 2021 through interviews with Directors of Adult Social Services and other senior managers in …
Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain puts the work of nineteenth-century women philosophers into conversation around issues such as naturalism, mind, and morality. It is a bold and pioneering study, fluently written and admirably clear. This book should quickly, and rightly, become essential reading for all scholars of the period.Stone focuses on the work of twelve women, as follows (3–5). Mary Shepherd (1777–1847) is perhaps best kno…
Bertrand Russell, Karin Costelloe‐Stephen, and Temporal Experience
From the late 1870s, philosophers became fascinated by the nature of human temporal experience. This paper focuses on two 1910s contributions to this field, both concerned with our experience of temporal relations. In May 1913, Bertrand Russell drafted what would become his oft-cited 1915 Monist article, “On the Experience of Time.” From 1912 to 1919, fellow Cambridge philosopher Karin Costelloe-Stephen authored a series of texts on the subject. …
Trust, trauma and the ‘postcode lottery’: Support for parents with a learning disability after their children are removed
Parents with learning disabilities in England are disproportionately subject to child protection intervention and child removal, yet post-removal support remains uneven and poorly understood. This study examined what support adult and children’s social care and allied agencies provided to these parents, and how professional relationships shaped both access to services and trust. The interviews with nine parents recruited via advocacy and voluntar…
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