G W Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G W Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | G W |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH G W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Art, Aliens and the Machine
With the assumption that the extraordinary discoveries being made in planetary science will soon trigger a conviction of the likelihood of contact with sentient extraterrestrial beings—and with the further realization that such beings may well depend upon our visual arts as their primary point of reference in respect to our own species—this short paper uses an imaginative approach to develop some corollary ideas, and, in addition, to throw a spot…
Institutional Ethnography
Rethinking Field Experience
Three types of data were gathered on a partnership and a single-placement model of early field experience. Data came from mentor and preservice teacher interviews, preservice teacher time logs, and transcripts of planning sessions. Although all mentors and preservice teachers found value in their experience, data indicate that those who participated in partnership placements had a very different experience. Preservice teachers in partner-placemen…
J. S. Mill on What We Don't Know About Women
Mill's feminism has been attacked as being logically incoherent. The general verdict has been that Mill can easily be defended from the charge. However, both sides in the debate have ignored the fact that his feminism is part of a broader theory of liberal empiricism. Placing The Subjection of Women in this context re–opens the question of its logical credentials and reveals a basic weakness in Millian feminism
A hello to Engels
Books in Review
Freedom and Virtue in Politics
Writing in the foreword to Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and speaking of his upbringing in Chicago between the wars Saul Bellow attests that ...as a Midwesterner, the son of immigrant parents, I recognized at an early stage that I was called upon to decide for myself to what extent my Jewish origins, my surroundings [‘the accidental circumstances of Chicago’], my schooling, were to be allowed to determine the course of my life. I…
Utility, Paternalism, and Slavery
Must Radicals be Marxists? Lukes on Power, Contestability and Alienation
According to Steven Lukes ‘A exercises power over B when A affects A in a manner contrary to B's interests’. Although he is not willing to contend that this general concept of power is altogether beyond reasonable dispute Lukes argues that it is the specific conceptions of power to which this more general concept gives rise when we fill in what is to count as B's interests that pose the fundamental problem for social and political science. For, a…
J. S. Mill on Edger and Reville
The ironic career of On Social Freedom is probably familiar to anyone who has had occasion to turn his mind seriously to Mill's perplexing convolutions concerning the idea of liberty, as will be the celebrated quietus applied to the issue by Rees in his influential Mill and his Early Critics.' The effect of Rees's work has been generally to reestablish the conventional reading of Mill as a consistent exponent of the classical negative approach to…
The Logic of J. S. Mill on Freedom
Mill's aim in Chapter 2 of Book 6 of the System of Logic, to reconcile human freedom with universal causality whilst at the same time answering the challenge of Owenite ‘social fatalism’, pushes him into attempting an ambitious reconstruction of the traditional Compatibilist conception of freedom as absence of constraint. An examination of the convolutions through which the argument goes before culminating in the conclusion that genuine freedom i…
Property Rights
Slavery, Contentment, and Social Freedom
Journal Article Slavery, Contentment, and Social Freedom Get access G. W. Smith G. W. Smith University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 108, July 1977, Pages 236–248, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218782 Published: 01 July 1977
Rethinking Field Experience
Three types of data were gathered on a partnership and a single-placement model of early field experience. Data came from mentor and preservice teacher interviews, preservice teacher time logs, and transcripts of planning sessions. Although all mentors and preservice teachers found value in their experience, data indicate that those who participated in partnership placements had a very different experience. Preservice teachers in partner-placemen…
The Logic of J. S. Mill on Freedom
Mill's aim in Chapter 2 of Book 6 of the System of Logic, to reconcile human freedom with universal causality whilst at the same time answering the challenge of Owenite ‘social fatalism’, pushes him into attempting an ambitious reconstruction of the traditional Compatibilist conception of freedom as absence of constraint. An examination of the convolutions through which the argument goes before culminating in the conclusion that genuine freedom i…
Must Radicals be Marxists? Lukes on Power, Contestability and Alienation
According to Steven Lukes ‘A exercises power over B when A affects A in a manner contrary to B's interests’. Although he is not willing to contend that this general concept of power is altogether beyond reasonable dispute Lukes argues that it is the specific conceptions of power to which this more general concept gives rise when we fill in what is to count as B's interests that pose the fundamental problem for social and political science. For, a…
Slavery, Contentment, and Social Freedom
Journal Article Slavery, Contentment, and Social Freedom Get access G. W. Smith G. W. Smith University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 108, July 1977, Pages 236–248, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218782 Published: 01 July 1977
Slavery, Contentment, and Social Freedom
Journal Article Slavery, Contentment, and Social Freedom Get access G. W. Smith G. W. Smith University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 108, July 1977, Pages 236–248, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218782 Published: 01 July 1977
Property Rights
J. S. Mill on Edger and Reville
The ironic career of On Social Freedom is probably familiar to anyone who has had occasion to turn his mind seriously to Mill's perplexing convolutions concerning the idea of liberty, as will be the celebrated quietus applied to the issue by Rees in his influential Mill and his Early Critics.' The effect of Rees's work has been generally to reestablish the conventional reading of Mill as a consistent exponent of the classical negative approach to…
The Logic of J. S. Mill on Freedom
Mill's aim in Chapter 2 of Book 6 of the System of Logic, to reconcile human freedom with universal causality whilst at the same time answering the challenge of Owenite ‘social fatalism’, pushes him into attempting an ambitious reconstruction of the traditional Compatibilist conception of freedom as absence of constraint. An examination of the convolutions through which the argument goes before culminating in the conclusion that genuine freedom i…
Utility, Paternalism, and Slavery
Must Radicals be Marxists? Lukes on Power, Contestability and Alienation
According to Steven Lukes ‘A exercises power over B when A affects A in a manner contrary to B's interests’. Although he is not willing to contend that this general concept of power is altogether beyond reasonable dispute Lukes argues that it is the specific conceptions of power to which this more general concept gives rise when we fill in what is to count as B's interests that pose the fundamental problem for social and political science. For, a…
Freedom and Virtue in Politics
Writing in the foreword to Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and speaking of his upbringing in Chicago between the wars Saul Bellow attests that ...as a Midwesterner, the son of immigrant parents, I recognized at an early stage that I was called upon to decide for myself to what extent my Jewish origins, my surroundings [‘the accidental circumstances of Chicago’], my schooling, were to be allowed to determine the course of my life. I…
Books in Review
A hello to Engels
J. S. Mill on What We Don't Know About Women
Mill's feminism has been attacked as being logically incoherent. The general verdict has been that Mill can easily be defended from the charge. However, both sides in the debate have ignored the fact that his feminism is part of a broader theory of liberal empiricism. Placing The Subjection of Women in this context re–opens the question of its logical credentials and reveals a basic weakness in Millian feminism
Institutional Ethnography
Rethinking Field Experience
Three types of data were gathered on a partnership and a single-placement model of early field experience. Data came from mentor and preservice teacher interviews, preservice teacher time logs, and transcripts of planning sessions. Although all mentors and preservice teachers found value in their experience, data indicate that those who participated in partnership placements had a very different experience. Preservice teachers in partner-placemen…
Art, Aliens and the Machine
With the assumption that the extraordinary discoveries being made in planetary science will soon trigger a conviction of the likelihood of contact with sentient extraterrestrial beings—and with the further realization that such beings may well depend upon our visual arts as their primary point of reference in respect to our own species—this short paper uses an imaginative approach to develop some corollary ideas, and, in addition, to throw a spot…
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