Matthew Day
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Day |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Day |
| SIGNATURE | DAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2683-4279 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Australian media's response to the end of indefinite detention
In late 2023, the end of indefinite detention in Australia marked a significant shift in immigration policy towards a rights-based treatment of people seeking asylum. Whilst the High Court's ruling was welcomed internationally, the domestic response was divisive; debated within the political and media spheres. Given the role media coverage of refugees and asylum seekers plays in informing the public, this research explores how asylum seekers were…
Trajectories into famine
Drawing on famine systems theory, this paper focuses on the factors that form a trajectory into famine. • Four cases of famine trajectories are reviewed from recent famines or near famine crises. • Identifying the factors that form a trajectory could help to more effectively disrupt those trajectories. • The shape of the trajectory is less important that the identifying its starting point. The prevention of famine is once again a significant huma…
John Shirwood and the Reading of Plutarch's Lives in Late Fifteenth‐Century England ☆
In the fifteenth century, Plutarch's Lives were popular among humanists for their moral and historical content. They circulated widely in humanist Latin translations in manuscript and later in print. This article examines the reading of printed copies of these translations in late fifteenth‐century England. It focuses on John Shirwood (d. 1493), Bishop of Durham, an avid English reader of humanist books. The article suggests that Shirwood's annot…
Using the household hunger scale to improve analysis and classification of severe food insecurity in famine-risk conditions
William Caxton and Vernacular Classicism
During the late fifteenth century, the printer and translator William Caxton produced a wide variety of vernacular works on classical subjects. While recent scholars have analysed these works in terms of “vernacular humanism”, this article suggests that “vernacular classicism” is a more inclusive description of the breadth of his output. From Ovidian allegoresis to Virgilian romance, Caxton’s works on classical subjects are drawn from a diverse r…
The short happy life of the affluent working class
This article reconsiders the debate over the alleged embourgeoisement of the British working classes after Second World War. 'Bourgeois affluence and proletarian apathy' examines why members of the New Left concluded that a 'bourgeois' proletariat was incapable of revolutionary activity. 'Washing machines and proletarian persistence' takes up the midcentury social scientific literature with an eye for the ways in which empirical research falsifie…
Responding to sustained poor outcomes in the management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
In 2017 Public Health England were asked to assist with investigating why 1-year cancer survival rates appeared lower than expected in a local area. We identified 50 premature deaths that surveillance data suggested we would not expect. These deaths highlighted a gap in recognising and responding to this kind of systematic non communicable disease (NCD) outcome variation. We hypothesise that the lack of a universally agreed systematic response to…
Not Just Another Duster
This article uses the experiences of agriculture, oil, and banking on America's Southern Great Plains during the mid‐1920s and early 1930s to create an economic context surrounding the Dust Bowl in the mid‐ to late 1930s
Demystified
This article examines how concepts of mergers and acquisitions shaped potential horizontal mergers, namely stock swaps, and vertical mergers shaped oil and ranching on the Southern Great Plains in the late 1920s and early 1930s
Restoration commerce and the instruments of trust
Although the theological elements of Robert Boyle’s mechanical philosophy have received careful scrutiny, his reflections on economic issues have largely been overlooked. This article takes a small step towards redressing this state of affairs. Rather than argue that Boyle – like John Locke or David Hume – was as interested in political economy as he was in discovering the nature of Nature, the article treats him as a point of entry for consideri…
Possibilities in diabetes service integration – consumers informing changes to local service delivery
Introduction/Background: Studies suggest that diabetes prevalence will rise to exceed 10% of the Australian population by 2030, which in our district, would equate to over 80,000 cases. Current estimates in South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) for 850,000 people suggest that when undiagnosed cases are included this is over 60,000 people or 7.6%. The number of women developing gestational diabetes has also doubled over the past deca…
The Roots of Empire
The Roots of Empire
Sir Joseph Banks, explorer, botanist, President of the Royal Society and member of the Privy Council, was one of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century architects of empire. Despite the ‘extreme aversion’ to study that he is reputed to have shown at Eton, Banks was also a great bibliophile. Indeed, his botanic interests may have been inspired by finding ‘on his mother’s dressing-table an old torn copy of Gerard’s Herbal’.1 John Gerard’…
The Educator Must Be Educated
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
How to Keep It Real
Over the last decade or so, an enormous amount of energy has been spent arguing whether the religion category is a legitimate tool for academic inquiry. This essay begins with the assumption that there are other, more interesting projects to pursue than talking about “religion.” By taking Bruno Latour’s work in the field of science studies as a model of what interesting work in our field might look like, the article advocates an approach which ab…
The Future in the Instant
The Educator Must Be Educated
This editorial begins with the premise that the liberal arts are in serious trouble. More to the point, it argues that recent attempts assign responsibility for this state of affairs to “postmodernism” naively ignores long-term economic trends. The humanities cannot be saved by just turning over a new leaf and making them more “scientific.” In fact, when it comes to the academic study of religion, the dream of an evolutionary or cognitive “scienc…
Magic feathers, Wittgensteinian boxes and the politics of deeming
Religious Experience Reconsidered offers an “attribution theory of religion” which builds out from Emile Durkheim's intuition that the sacred is just some aspect of the world that has been set apart. Despite this theoretical pedigree, however, the book violates the central Durkheimian insight when it goes on to ask whether some things are more likely to be set apart than others. I argue that this impulse is motivated by an unfortunate metaphysica…
The Sacred Contagion
The Excremental Vision and the Study of Religion
Gary Lease often deployed a Swiftian "excremental vision" to upend the liberal pretensions of "religion" and religious studies. However, this essay argues that there is far more to say about the relationship between religion and defecation. Indeed, the inescapable fact of human excrement should be viewed as an under-utilized site for academic theorizing about the power of "religion
“Mysteries of Commerce”1
O n January 10, 1625, just prior to the publication of his multivolume collection of travel narratives, Purchas his pilgrimes , Samuel Purchas visited the East India Company (EIC) seeking permission to include a dedication to the merchants. 2 They enthusiastically agreed but wanted to make some “additions and alterations” (Sainsbury, CSP 1625–29 10). In particular, they sought to comment on “the generall injuries of the Dutch [toward the English]…
Bridging the Brentano Gorge
In this introduction to a special MTSR issue dedicated to Breaking the Spell, I outline the broad philosophical contours of Daniel Dennett's career and its relevance for scholars of religion. By focusing attention on how Dennett's understanding of cognition is informed by a Darwinian principle of naturally selected "design," my goal is to explain why many academics in the field had high hopes for his account of religious cognition's natural origi…
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for the Study of Religion
Godless Savages and Superstitious Dogs
This essay provides a comprehensive overview of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theorizing about the natural origins of religion. More specifically, it argues that Darwin's commitment to locating elementary forms of the religious life in non-human animals was informed by his desire to sever the connection between the moral status of being human and the anthropological status of having a religion. The essay concludes that when we carefully examine t…
Let's Be Realistic
John Dewey famously argued that Darwin had introduced a new conceptual vocabulary that would completely overhaul the traditional philosophical enterprise. His sense was that the kinds of monumental metaphysical questions that philosophy typically asked about causes, trends and purposes start to look meaningless and willfully unanswerable once we absorb the tough lessons of natural selection. More specifically, Dewey thought that The Origin of Spe…
Religion, Off-Line Cognition and the Extended Mind
This essay argues that the "classical" or "standard" computation model of an enviroment of thought may hamstring the nascent cognitive science of religion by masking the ways in which the bare biological brain is prosthetically extended and embedded in the surrounding landscape. The motivation for distinsuishing between the problem-solving profiles of the basic brain and the brain-plus-scaffolding is that in many domains non-biological artifacts …
How to Keep It Real
Over the last decade or so, an enormous amount of energy has been spent arguing whether the religion category is a legitimate tool for academic inquiry. This essay begins with the assumption that there are other, more interesting projects to pursue than talking about “religion.” By taking Bruno Latour’s work in the field of science studies as a model of what interesting work in our field might look like, the article advocates an approach which ab…
Magic feathers, Wittgensteinian boxes and the politics of deeming
Religious Experience Reconsidered offers an “attribution theory of religion” which builds out from Emile Durkheim's intuition that the sacred is just some aspect of the world that has been set apart. Despite this theoretical pedigree, however, the book violates the central Durkheimian insight when it goes on to ask whether some things are more likely to be set apart than others. I argue that this impulse is motivated by an unfortunate metaphysica…
The Ins and Outs of Religious Cognition
If an academic enterprise is defined in part by the issues it tackles, a rough but reliable technique for judging a field's intellectual progress is to take stock of the questions it has put to rest. Does the track record suggest an encouraging trend of theoretically and empirically progres sive problemshifts (Lakatos 1980)? Or is the pattern one of unre solved fundamental problems being passed down from one generation of scholars to the next lik…
Using the household hunger scale to improve analysis and classification of severe food insecurity in famine-risk conditions
William Caxton and Vernacular Classicism
During the late fifteenth century, the printer and translator William Caxton produced a wide variety of vernacular works on classical subjects. While recent scholars have analysed these works in terms of “vernacular humanism”, this article suggests that “vernacular classicism” is a more inclusive description of the breadth of his output. From Ovidian allegoresis to Virgilian romance, Caxton’s works on classical subjects are drawn from a diverse r…
The short happy life of the affluent working class
This article reconsiders the debate over the alleged embourgeoisement of the British working classes after Second World War. 'Bourgeois affluence and proletarian apathy' examines why members of the New Left concluded that a 'bourgeois' proletariat was incapable of revolutionary activity. 'Washing machines and proletarian persistence' takes up the midcentury social scientific literature with an eye for the ways in which empirical research falsifie…
The Educator Must Be Educated
This editorial begins with the premise that the liberal arts are in serious trouble. More to the point, it argues that recent attempts assign responsibility for this state of affairs to “postmodernism” naively ignores long-term economic trends. The humanities cannot be saved by just turning over a new leaf and making them more “scientific.” In fact, when it comes to the academic study of religion, the dream of an evolutionary or cognitive “scienc…
The Sacred Contagion
Is Religion a Sexual Ornament
Thanks in part to his uncertainty about variation and inheritance, Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection had become a kind of scientific curio by the end of the nineteenth century (Bowler 1989; Depew and Weber 1995). The discovery and subsequent elaboration of Mendel's theory of inheritance at the beginning of the twentieth century only compounded the sense that Darwinian natu ral selection was not only an improbable explanation …
Religion, Off-Line Cognition and the Extended Mind
This essay argues that the "classical" or "standard" computation model of an enviroment of thought may hamstring the nascent cognitive science of religion by masking the ways in which the bare biological brain is prosthetically extended and embedded in the surrounding landscape. The motivation for distinsuishing between the problem-solving profiles of the basic brain and the brain-plus-scaffolding is that in many domains non-biological artifacts …
The Ins and Outs of Religious Cognition
If an academic enterprise is defined in part by the issues it tackles, a rough but reliable technique for judging a field's intellectual progress is to take stock of the questions it has put to rest. Does the track record suggest an encouraging trend of theoretically and empirically progres sive problemshifts (Lakatos 1980)? Or is the pattern one of unre solved fundamental problems being passed down from one generation of scholars to the next lik…
The Undiscovered and Undiscoverable Essence
Reading the Fossils of Faith
In a book loaded with metaphors of assault and retaliation, Andrew Dickson White'sA History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendomsaved one of the best for Darwin. "Darwin'sOrigin of Species," we are told, came "into the theological world like a plough into an ant-hill. Everywhere those thus rudely awakened from their old comfort and repose had swarmed forth angry and confused." For White, the sometimes frenzied post-Darwinian con…
Let's Be Realistic
John Dewey famously argued that Darwin had introduced a new conceptual vocabulary that would completely overhaul the traditional philosophical enterprise. His sense was that the kinds of monumental metaphysical questions that philosophy typically asked about causes, trends and purposes start to look meaningless and willfully unanswerable once we absorb the tough lessons of natural selection. More specifically, Dewey thought that The Origin of Spe…
“Mysteries of Commerce”1
O n January 10, 1625, just prior to the publication of his multivolume collection of travel narratives, Purchas his pilgrimes , Samuel Purchas visited the East India Company (EIC) seeking permission to include a dedication to the merchants. 2 They enthusiastically agreed but wanted to make some “additions and alterations” (Sainsbury, CSP 1625–29 10). In particular, they sought to comment on “the generall injuries of the Dutch [toward the English]…
Bridging the Brentano Gorge
In this introduction to a special MTSR issue dedicated to Breaking the Spell, I outline the broad philosophical contours of Daniel Dennett's career and its relevance for scholars of religion. By focusing attention on how Dennett's understanding of cognition is informed by a Darwinian principle of naturally selected "design," my goal is to explain why many academics in the field had high hopes for his account of religious cognition's natural origi…
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for the Study of Religion
Godless Savages and Superstitious Dogs
This essay provides a comprehensive overview of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theorizing about the natural origins of religion. More specifically, it argues that Darwin's commitment to locating elementary forms of the religious life in non-human animals was informed by his desire to sever the connection between the moral status of being human and the anthropological status of having a religion. The essay concludes that when we carefully examine t…
The Excremental Vision and the Study of Religion
Gary Lease often deployed a Swiftian "excremental vision" to upend the liberal pretensions of "religion" and religious studies. However, this essay argues that there is far more to say about the relationship between religion and defecation. Indeed, the inescapable fact of human excrement should be viewed as an under-utilized site for academic theorizing about the power of "religion
The Educator Must Be Educated
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
How to Keep It Real
Over the last decade or so, an enormous amount of energy has been spent arguing whether the religion category is a legitimate tool for academic inquiry. This essay begins with the assumption that there are other, more interesting projects to pursue than talking about “religion.” By taking Bruno Latour’s work in the field of science studies as a model of what interesting work in our field might look like, the article advocates an approach which ab…
The Future in the Instant
The Educator Must Be Educated
This editorial begins with the premise that the liberal arts are in serious trouble. More to the point, it argues that recent attempts assign responsibility for this state of affairs to “postmodernism” naively ignores long-term economic trends. The humanities cannot be saved by just turning over a new leaf and making them more “scientific.” In fact, when it comes to the academic study of religion, the dream of an evolutionary or cognitive “scienc…
Magic feathers, Wittgensteinian boxes and the politics of deeming
Religious Experience Reconsidered offers an “attribution theory of religion” which builds out from Emile Durkheim's intuition that the sacred is just some aspect of the world that has been set apart. Despite this theoretical pedigree, however, the book violates the central Durkheimian insight when it goes on to ask whether some things are more likely to be set apart than others. I argue that this impulse is motivated by an unfortunate metaphysica…
The Sacred Contagion
The Roots of Empire
The Roots of Empire
Sir Joseph Banks, explorer, botanist, President of the Royal Society and member of the Privy Council, was one of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century architects of empire. Despite the ‘extreme aversion’ to study that he is reputed to have shown at Eton, Banks was also a great bibliophile. Indeed, his botanic interests may have been inspired by finding ‘on his mother’s dressing-table an old torn copy of Gerard’s Herbal’.1 John Gerard’…
Possibilities in diabetes service integration – consumers informing changes to local service delivery
Introduction/Background: Studies suggest that diabetes prevalence will rise to exceed 10% of the Australian population by 2030, which in our district, would equate to over 80,000 cases. Current estimates in South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) for 850,000 people suggest that when undiagnosed cases are included this is over 60,000 people or 7.6%. The number of women developing gestational diabetes has also doubled over the past deca…
Restoration commerce and the instruments of trust
Although the theological elements of Robert Boyle’s mechanical philosophy have received careful scrutiny, his reflections on economic issues have largely been overlooked. This article takes a small step towards redressing this state of affairs. Rather than argue that Boyle – like John Locke or David Hume – was as interested in political economy as he was in discovering the nature of Nature, the article treats him as a point of entry for consideri…
Demystified
This article examines how concepts of mergers and acquisitions shaped potential horizontal mergers, namely stock swaps, and vertical mergers shaped oil and ranching on the Southern Great Plains in the late 1920s and early 1930s
Not Just Another Duster
This article uses the experiences of agriculture, oil, and banking on America's Southern Great Plains during the mid‐1920s and early 1930s to create an economic context surrounding the Dust Bowl in the mid‐ to late 1930s
Responding to sustained poor outcomes in the management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
In 2017 Public Health England were asked to assist with investigating why 1-year cancer survival rates appeared lower than expected in a local area. We identified 50 premature deaths that surveillance data suggested we would not expect. These deaths highlighted a gap in recognising and responding to this kind of systematic non communicable disease (NCD) outcome variation. We hypothesise that the lack of a universally agreed systematic response to…
The short happy life of the affluent working class
This article reconsiders the debate over the alleged embourgeoisement of the British working classes after Second World War. 'Bourgeois affluence and proletarian apathy' examines why members of the New Left concluded that a 'bourgeois' proletariat was incapable of revolutionary activity. 'Washing machines and proletarian persistence' takes up the midcentury social scientific literature with an eye for the ways in which empirical research falsifie…
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