Michael Watkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Watkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Watkins |
| SIGNATURE | WATKINS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4751-9398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pride and prejudice
Australia Day, celebrated on January 26, is rooted in Australia's colonial history and causes pain for many of Australia's First Peoples. This study was the first to investigate predictors of Australians’ attitudes toward the date, while exploring whether intervention may improve attitudes toward a date‐change. An Australian community sample ( N = 559) were recruited through social media for an anonymous survey. Participants indicated their suppo…
Colors, Perceptual Variation, and Science
Supervenience and Realization
Aestheticians generally agree that the aesthetic features of an object depend upon the non-aesthetic features of an object, and that this dependence can be captured by some formulation of the supervenience relation. I argue that the aesthetic depends upon the non-aesthetic in various and importantly different ways; that these dependence relations cannot be explained by supervenience; that appeals to supervenience create puzzles that aestheticians…
Using Intentional Attributions to Explain Change in Leisure Meanings
This study proposes that intentional attributions (e.g., beliefs and desires) related to experiencing leisure can explain change in the meanings of experiences. Descriptions of change in leisure obtained from a panel study of 20 young adults were analyzed for evidence of intentions associated with progression along a continuum of multidimensional meanings. Results suggest that intentional change (e.g., from believing that one has the right to cho…
The Red and the Real
Book Review| April 01 2011 The Red and the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology Jonathan Cohen, The Red and the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xvi + 260 pp. Michael Watkins Michael Watkins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 326–329. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2010-032 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permi…
A Follow‐up Study into Different Ways of Experiencing Leisure
Phenomenographic research reveals that leisure studies students can experience the meaning of leisure as passing time, exercising choice, escaping pressure, and achieving fulfilment; and that these meanings can be operationalised as a continuum of developmentally ordered understandings. This study sought to clarify the nature and order of meanings using follow‐up research with the same leisure studies students (n=33) and a group of non–leisure st…
Ways of Experiencing Leisure
This study used phenomenography to describe different experiences of leisure meanings and to interpret experiences in terms of the complexity in understanding. Four multi-dimensional experiences differing in their phenomenal, contextual, and temporal relations were described. Leisure as achieving fulfillment was judged the most complex understanding, followed by escaping pressure, exercising choice and passing time. More complex understandings re…
The Development of the Leisure Meanings Inventory
Researchers face several challenges when designing psychometric scales for measuring leisure meaning. These include the need for a construct definition and operational indicators that conceptualizes the nature of the leisure meaning and specifies the content of different meanings. This study describes the development of the Leisure Meanings Inventory as a multi-dimensional scale for measuring four qualitatively different ways of experiencing the …
Strategic Simplification
Using Richard Holbrooke's negotiations in Bosnia as an instructive example, this article examines structural complexity as a barrier to agreement and proposes approaches to "strategic simplification" that are inspired by research on modular design of new products. This article represents an initial step toward development of a broader theory of complexity management in negotiation
Breakthrough International Negotiation
Much of the negotiation literature involves two parties that are each assumed to behave in a unitary manner, although a growing body of knowledge considers more complex negotiations. Examples of the latter include two parties where one or both parties do not behave in a unitary manner, multiple parties on one or both sides, parties on multiple sides and parties engaged in separate but linked negotiations. Greater degrees of complexity distinguish…
Ways of Learning about Leisure Meanings
This article examines the epistemological claims made by four paradigms used to study leisure meanings: behaviorism, cognitivism, individual constructivism, and social constructivism. These paradigms represent diverse and contrasting theoretical explanations of how individuals gain knowledge about and give meaning to the phenomenon of leisure and of how these meanings differ and change. Analysis of each paradigm illustrates limitations in their c…
Toward a Theory of Representation in Negotiation
What is it Like to be a Phenomenologist
In a recent paper, ‘On the Persistence of Phenomenology’ (in T. Metzinger (ed.), Conscious Experience, Paderborn, 1995), Diana Raffman presents a new argument for qualia, an argument that provides new focus for the qualia debate. We think Raffman's work relocates the debate to a better neighbourhood, a neighbourhood in which what tempts us to think that there must be qualia or phenomenal information is highlighted. Raffman, we argue, locates the …
Colours and Causes
Frank Jackson et Robert Pargetter défendent l'idée que la couleur rouge est lapropriété, quelle qu'elle soit, qui cause ou causerait l'apparition de rouge dans notre expérience visuelle. Ceci empêche la couleur rouge d'être une propriété dispositionnelle, soutiennent-ils, puisque les propriétés dispositionnelles sont causalement inertes. Pour des raisons similaires, Us concluent aussi que la couleur rouge ne peut pas être une propriété disjonctiv…
What Our Colour Experiences Don't Teach Us
Paul Boghossian et David Velleman ont soutenu que les théories physicalistes des couleurs — celles qui identifient les propriétés de couleur avec certaines propriétés physiques des objets ou de la lumière—ne peuvent accommoder l'intuition profonde selon laquelle nous ne pouvons pas être dans l'erreur au sujet des contenus représentationnels de nos expériences de couleur. Contre Boghossian et Velleman, je soutiens que cette intuition prétendue que…
Pivotal Mistakes
Ways of Experiencing Leisure
This study used phenomenography to describe different experiences of leisure meanings and to interpret experiences in terms of the complexity in understanding. Four multi-dimensional experiences differing in their phenomenal, contextual, and temporal relations were described. Leisure as achieving fulfillment was judged the most complex understanding, followed by escaping pressure, exercising choice and passing time. More complex understandings re…
The Development of the Leisure Meanings Inventory
Researchers face several challenges when designing psychometric scales for measuring leisure meaning. These include the need for a construct definition and operational indicators that conceptualizes the nature of the leisure meaning and specifies the content of different meanings. This study describes the development of the Leisure Meanings Inventory as a multi-dimensional scale for measuring four qualitatively different ways of experiencing the …
Ways of Learning about Leisure Meanings
This article examines the epistemological claims made by four paradigms used to study leisure meanings: behaviorism, cognitivism, individual constructivism, and social constructivism. These paradigms represent diverse and contrasting theoretical explanations of how individuals gain knowledge about and give meaning to the phenomenon of leisure and of how these meanings differ and change. Analysis of each paradigm illustrates limitations in their c…
Strategic Simplification
Using Richard Holbrooke's negotiations in Bosnia as an instructive example, this article examines structural complexity as a barrier to agreement and proposes approaches to "strategic simplification" that are inspired by research on modular design of new products. This article represents an initial step toward development of a broader theory of complexity management in negotiation
Using Intentional Attributions to Explain Change in Leisure Meanings
This study proposes that intentional attributions (e.g., beliefs and desires) related to experiencing leisure can explain change in the meanings of experiences. Descriptions of change in leisure obtained from a panel study of 20 young adults were analyzed for evidence of intentions associated with progression along a continuum of multidimensional meanings. Results suggest that intentional change (e.g., from believing that one has the right to cho…
Supervenience and Realization
Aestheticians generally agree that the aesthetic features of an object depend upon the non-aesthetic features of an object, and that this dependence can be captured by some formulation of the supervenience relation. I argue that the aesthetic depends upon the non-aesthetic in various and importantly different ways; that these dependence relations cannot be explained by supervenience; that appeals to supervenience create puzzles that aestheticians…
A Follow‐up Study into Different Ways of Experiencing Leisure
Phenomenographic research reveals that leisure studies students can experience the meaning of leisure as passing time, exercising choice, escaping pressure, and achieving fulfilment; and that these meanings can be operationalised as a continuum of developmentally ordered understandings. This study sought to clarify the nature and order of meanings using follow‐up research with the same leisure studies students (n=33) and a group of non–leisure st…
What is it Like to be a Phenomenologist
In a recent paper, ‘On the Persistence of Phenomenology’ (in T. Metzinger (ed.), Conscious Experience, Paderborn, 1995), Diana Raffman presents a new argument for qualia, an argument that provides new focus for the qualia debate. We think Raffman's work relocates the debate to a better neighbourhood, a neighbourhood in which what tempts us to think that there must be qualia or phenomenal information is highlighted. Raffman, we argue, locates the …
Pivotal Mistakes
Colours and Causes
Frank Jackson et Robert Pargetter défendent l'idée que la couleur rouge est lapropriété, quelle qu'elle soit, qui cause ou causerait l'apparition de rouge dans notre expérience visuelle. Ceci empêche la couleur rouge d'être une propriété dispositionnelle, soutiennent-ils, puisque les propriétés dispositionnelles sont causalement inertes. Pour des raisons similaires, Us concluent aussi que la couleur rouge ne peut pas être une propriété disjonctiv…
What Our Colour Experiences Don't Teach Us
Paul Boghossian et David Velleman ont soutenu que les théories physicalistes des couleurs — celles qui identifient les propriétés de couleur avec certaines propriétés physiques des objets ou de la lumière—ne peuvent accommoder l'intuition profonde selon laquelle nous ne pouvons pas être dans l'erreur au sujet des contenus représentationnels de nos expériences de couleur. Contre Boghossian et Velleman, je soutiens que cette intuition prétendue que…
What is it Like to be a Phenomenologist
In a recent paper, ‘On the Persistence of Phenomenology’ (in T. Metzinger (ed.), Conscious Experience, Paderborn, 1995), Diana Raffman presents a new argument for qualia, an argument that provides new focus for the qualia debate. We think Raffman's work relocates the debate to a better neighbourhood, a neighbourhood in which what tempts us to think that there must be qualia or phenomenal information is highlighted. Raffman, we argue, locates the …
Toward a Theory of Representation in Negotiation
Ways of Learning about Leisure Meanings
This article examines the epistemological claims made by four paradigms used to study leisure meanings: behaviorism, cognitivism, individual constructivism, and social constructivism. These paradigms represent diverse and contrasting theoretical explanations of how individuals gain knowledge about and give meaning to the phenomenon of leisure and of how these meanings differ and change. Analysis of each paradigm illustrates limitations in their c…
Breakthrough International Negotiation
Much of the negotiation literature involves two parties that are each assumed to behave in a unitary manner, although a growing body of knowledge considers more complex negotiations. Examples of the latter include two parties where one or both parties do not behave in a unitary manner, multiple parties on one or both sides, parties on multiple sides and parties engaged in separate but linked negotiations. Greater degrees of complexity distinguish…
Strategic Simplification
Using Richard Holbrooke's negotiations in Bosnia as an instructive example, this article examines structural complexity as a barrier to agreement and proposes approaches to "strategic simplification" that are inspired by research on modular design of new products. This article represents an initial step toward development of a broader theory of complexity management in negotiation
Ways of Experiencing Leisure
This study used phenomenography to describe different experiences of leisure meanings and to interpret experiences in terms of the complexity in understanding. Four multi-dimensional experiences differing in their phenomenal, contextual, and temporal relations were described. Leisure as achieving fulfillment was judged the most complex understanding, followed by escaping pressure, exercising choice and passing time. More complex understandings re…
The Development of the Leisure Meanings Inventory
Researchers face several challenges when designing psychometric scales for measuring leisure meaning. These include the need for a construct definition and operational indicators that conceptualizes the nature of the leisure meaning and specifies the content of different meanings. This study describes the development of the Leisure Meanings Inventory as a multi-dimensional scale for measuring four qualitatively different ways of experiencing the …
A Follow‐up Study into Different Ways of Experiencing Leisure
Phenomenographic research reveals that leisure studies students can experience the meaning of leisure as passing time, exercising choice, escaping pressure, and achieving fulfilment; and that these meanings can be operationalised as a continuum of developmentally ordered understandings. This study sought to clarify the nature and order of meanings using follow‐up research with the same leisure studies students (n=33) and a group of non–leisure st…
The Red and the Real
Book Review| April 01 2011 The Red and the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology Jonathan Cohen, The Red and the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xvi + 260 pp. Michael Watkins Michael Watkins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (2): 326–329. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2010-032 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permi…
Using Intentional Attributions to Explain Change in Leisure Meanings
This study proposes that intentional attributions (e.g., beliefs and desires) related to experiencing leisure can explain change in the meanings of experiences. Descriptions of change in leisure obtained from a panel study of 20 young adults were analyzed for evidence of intentions associated with progression along a continuum of multidimensional meanings. Results suggest that intentional change (e.g., from believing that one has the right to cho…
Supervenience and Realization
Aestheticians generally agree that the aesthetic features of an object depend upon the non-aesthetic features of an object, and that this dependence can be captured by some formulation of the supervenience relation. I argue that the aesthetic depends upon the non-aesthetic in various and importantly different ways; that these dependence relations cannot be explained by supervenience; that appeals to supervenience create puzzles that aestheticians…
Pride and prejudice
Australia Day, celebrated on January 26, is rooted in Australia's colonial history and causes pain for many of Australia's First Peoples. This study was the first to investigate predictors of Australians’ attitudes toward the date, while exploring whether intervention may improve attitudes toward a date‐change. An Australian community sample ( N = 559) were recruited through social media for an anonymous survey. Participants indicated their suppo…
Colors, Perceptual Variation, and Science
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (4 works)