David Zimmerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Zimmerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmerman |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2590-3965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin
In the 1930s, hundreds of scientists and scholars fled Hitler's Germany. Many found safety, but some made the disastrous decision to seek refuge in Stalin's Soviet Union. The vast majority of these refugee scholars were arrested, murdered, or forced to flee the Soviet Union during the Great Terror. Many of the survivors then found themselves embroiled in the Holocaust. Ensnared between Hitler and Stalin explores the forced migration of these disp…
A more creditable way’
On 19 July 1926, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors held a hearing on the claim of Professor Paul Langevin and Monsieur M. Constantin Chilowsky for compensation from the British Admiralty for their discovery of sonar. The hearings provide unique insights into the origins and early research of active sonar and an important snapshot of the Royal Navy’s anti-submarine warfare research in the mid-1920s. Moreover, the hearing reveals much mor…
Pamela Haag. The Gunning of America
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture offers a rich and wide-ranging history of American gun manufacturing, marketing, and mythologizing from the 1790s, when officials worried about the scarcity of domestically made guns, to the 1930s, when factories in the Northeast employing tens of thousands of assembly-line workers could churn out a quarter-million rifles a month. Drawing on a fertile archive of gun industry …
Forty-second Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology and Fourth Meeting of the History of Electrical Technology
Forty-second Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology and Fourth Meeting of the History of Electrical Technology“History of High-Technologies and Their Socio-Cultural Contexts,” Tel Aviv, Israel, 16–20 August 2015 Shaul Katzir (bio), Christopher Neumaier (bio), M. Luísa Sousa (bio), and David Zimmerman (bio) The forty-second annual meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) took pl…
Charles Brockden Brown and the Conundrum of Complicity
Charles Brockden Brown’s four major novels, all written between 1798 and 1800, are devoted to the conundrum of moral complicity—the impossibility of pinpointing moral accountability for harms in a world where intersubjective life makes it impossible to separate one person’s action from the actions of others. This essay argues that for Brown, this conundrum constituted the narrative precondition of fictional storytelling and served as the source o…
Arms, Economics, and British Strategy
Reviewed by: Arms, Economics, and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs David Zimmerman (bio) Arms, Economics, and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs. By G. C. Peden. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+384. $99. By trying to link developments in British military technology to economics and strategy between World War I and the height of the cold war, G. C. Peden has attempted a hugely ambitious …
‘Narrow-Minded People’
The failure of Canadian academics to aide their colleagues in Germany during the 1930s stands in stark contrast to their counterparts in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere. While other national academic refugee organizations were established in 1933, it was only in 1939 that Canadian academics organized the Canadian Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (CSPSL). Prior to 1939, a mere handful of displaced scholars found r…
The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning and the Politicization of British Science in the 1930s
The Precision Revolution
Information and the Air Defence Revolution, 1917–40
The Royal Air Force was successful in the Battle of Britain because of the elaborate and sophisticated air defence system of Fighter Command. This system had its foundations in the early warnings which radar provided. The process of collecting a huge amount of often inaccurate and contradictory data from radar stations, and then turning it into useful information which could direct fighters to their targets was a remarkable accomplishment. Inform…
Why Richard Brandt Does Not Need Cognitive Psychotherapy, and Other Glad News about Idealized Preference Theories in Meta-Ethics
Frank Norris, Market Panic, and the Mesmeric Sublime
Research Article| March 01 2003 Frank Norris, Market Panic, and the Mesmeric Sublime David A. Zimmerman David A. Zimmerman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 61–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-61 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David A. Zimmerman; Frank Norris, Market Panic, and the Mesmeric Sublime. American Lite…
Taking Liberties
Pioneers of Radar
Residential Care Supply and Cognitive and Physical Problem Case Mix in Nursing Homes
The findings raise caution about the optimistic assumptions of the interplay between residential care/assisted living policy and nursing-home use
Survey Article
Thinking with Your Hypothalamus
In “Freedom and Resentment,” P. F. Strawson argues that the “profound opposition” between the objective and reactive stances is quite compatible with our rationally retaining the latter as important elements in a recognizably human life. Unless he can establish this, he has no hope of establishing his version of compatibilism in the free will debate. But, because objectivity is associated so intimately with the rationally conducted explanation of…
An empirical analysis of the welfare magnet debate using the NLSY
Top Secret Exchange
An illustrated study of the British Tizard technical mission to North America during the Second World War, in which a group of scientists were sent by the British Government across the Atlantic to provide the US and Canada with most of Britain's technological and military secrets, including radar
British radar organization and the failure to stop the night‐time blitz
When the Luftwaffe began to attack British cities at night during the autumn of 1940 the Royal Air Force's aircraft defence system was almost useless. At the heart of the problem were the delays in providing effective Airborne Interception radar. This article examines the causes of the failure of the first three marks of AI and the delay in providing an effective replacement. It shows that the principle causes of this was the way research and dev…
The Invention that Changed the World
Tucker's Acoustical Mirrors
In December 1933the BritishAir Ministry approved the construction of an acoustic aircraft early warning system to guard the approaches to London along the Thames Estuary. It was an elaborate scheme, consisting of nine giant sound mirrors and a central plotting room. If successful, this system was to serve as the model for a national defence programme. This decision marked the culmination of 16 years of research at the acoustical section of the Ai…
The Tizard Mission and the Development of the Atomic Bomb
Radar at Sea
Setting the scene 1935-39: the beginnings of the navy's radar 1939-40: the phoney war - but not at sea 1940: Norway and the fall of France 1941: Matapan and the sinking of the Bismarck 1941: the battle of the Atlantic and Pearl Harbor 1942: Malta convoys, and the invasion of North Africa 1943: Sicily, Salerno and the sinking of the Scharnhorst 1944: Normandy, before and after 1945: the end of the war wartime projects postwar radar in the wartime …
A First Step in Comparative History
A First Step in Comparative History: The Royal Australian and Canadian Navies and High Technology in the Second World War. Un article de la revue Scientia Canadensis (Dominions Apart: Reflections on the Culture of Science and Technology in Canada and Australia 1850-1945) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
An empirical analysis of the welfare magnet debate using the NLSY
The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning and the Politicization of British Science in the 1930s
Residential Care Supply and Cognitive and Physical Problem Case Mix in Nursing Homes
The findings raise caution about the optimistic assumptions of the interplay between residential care/assisted living policy and nursing-home use
Frank Norris, Market Panic, and the Mesmeric Sublime
Research Article| March 01 2003 Frank Norris, Market Panic, and the Mesmeric Sublime David A. Zimmerman David A. Zimmerman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 61–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-61 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David A. Zimmerman; Frank Norris, Market Panic, and the Mesmeric Sublime. American Lite…
Survey Article
Hierarchical Motivation and Freedom of the Will
Hierarchical Motivation and Freedom of the Will
Case Studies
Mrs. X and the Bone Marrow Transplant
The case is presented in which a leukemia patient sought an order from an Iowa district court to compel the University of Iowa Institutional Review Board (IRB) to recontact, specifically on the patient's behalf, a potential bone marrow donor who had refused a general request to participate in the transplant program. Charles Lidz, Alan Meisel, and Loren Roth argue against judicial intervention, primarily on the grounds that a follow-up letter woul…
Moral Thinking
Two Oversights and an Error
The Difference between Badness and Madness
Book reviewed in this article: Madness and the Criminal Law. By Norval Morris. The Insanity Plea: The Uses and Abuses of the Insanity Defense. By William J. Winslade and Judith Wilson Ross
The Organization of Science for War
The Organization of Science for War: The Management of Canadian Radar Development, 1939-45. Un article de la revue Scientia Canadensis (Volume 10, numéro 2 (31), automne–hiver 1986, p. 92-159) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Royal Canadian Navy and the National Research Council, 1939–45
Nursing Home Case Mix in Wisconsin
Along with many other states, Wisconsin is considering a case mix approach to Medicaid nursing home reimbursement. To support this effort, a nursing home case mix model was developed from a representative sample of 410 Medicaid nursing home residents from 56 facilities in Wisconsin. The model classified residents into mutually exclusive groups that were homogeneous in their use of direct care resources, i.e., minutes of direct care time (weighted…
Mental Illness and Psychotropic Medication Use in the Nursing Home
The authors examined mental illness and psychotropic medications use among nursing home residents. Data were drawn from the Texas Long-Term Care Reimbursement Project, a 1986 study of nearly 2,000 residents in 49 nursing homes. The study measured the use of antipsychotics and other psychotropic medications, physical health conditions, mental illness diagnoses, behavior, and nursing and other direct-care time for sampled residents. The findings in…
The Great Naval Battle of Ottawa
A First Step in Comparative History
A First Step in Comparative History: The Royal Australian and Canadian Navies and High Technology in the Second World War. Un article de la revue Scientia Canadensis (Dominions Apart: Reflections on the Culture of Science and Technology in Canada and Australia 1850-1945) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Radar at Sea
Setting the scene 1935-39: the beginnings of the navy's radar 1939-40: the phoney war - but not at sea 1940: Norway and the fall of France 1941: Matapan and the sinking of the Bismarck 1941: the battle of the Atlantic and Pearl Harbor 1942: Malta convoys, and the invasion of North Africa 1943: Sicily, Salerno and the sinking of the Scharnhorst 1944: Normandy, before and after 1945: the end of the war wartime projects postwar radar in the wartime …
The Tizard Mission and the Development of the Atomic Bomb
The Invention that Changed the World
Tucker's Acoustical Mirrors
In December 1933the BritishAir Ministry approved the construction of an acoustic aircraft early warning system to guard the approaches to London along the Thames Estuary. It was an elaborate scheme, consisting of nine giant sound mirrors and a central plotting room. If successful, this system was to serve as the model for a national defence programme. This decision marked the culmination of 16 years of research at the acoustical section of the Ai…
Top Secret Exchange
An illustrated study of the British Tizard technical mission to North America during the Second World War, in which a group of scientists were sent by the British Government across the Atlantic to provide the US and Canada with most of Britain's technological and military secrets, including radar
British radar organization and the failure to stop the night‐time blitz
When the Luftwaffe began to attack British cities at night during the autumn of 1940 the Royal Air Force's aircraft defence system was almost useless. At the heart of the problem were the delays in providing effective Airborne Interception radar. This article examines the causes of the failure of the first three marks of AI and the delay in providing an effective replacement. It shows that the principle causes of this was the way research and dev…
An empirical analysis of the welfare magnet debate using the NLSY
Residential Care Supply and Cognitive and Physical Problem Case Mix in Nursing Homes
The findings raise caution about the optimistic assumptions of the interplay between residential care/assisted living policy and nursing-home use
Survey Article
Thinking with Your Hypothalamus
In “Freedom and Resentment,” P. F. Strawson argues that the “profound opposition” between the objective and reactive stances is quite compatible with our rationally retaining the latter as important elements in a recognizably human life. Unless he can establish this, he has no hope of establishing his version of compatibilism in the free will debate. But, because objectivity is associated so intimately with the rationally conducted explanation of…
Taking Liberties
Pioneers of Radar
Why Richard Brandt Does Not Need Cognitive Psychotherapy, and Other Glad News about Idealized Preference Theories in Meta-Ethics
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