Alex Kerr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3745406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Kerr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerr |
| SIGNATURE | KERR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Berkeley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0157-2540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feeling a Beat
When you hear music, you experience a repeating pulse that you naturally tap along to—you feel a beat. But you can feel a beat differently under sounds you hear as otherwise alike. Heard each way, things sound different. But, heard each way, nothing seems to change. So why do things sound different? I argue that, surprisingly, the usual theories of perception have no good answer. I then develop a view on which different ways of feeling a beat are…
Perspective and spatial experience
Distant things look smaller, in a sense. Why? I argue that the reason is not that our experiences have a certain subject matter, or are about certain mind-independent things and features. Instead, distant things look smaller because of our way of perceiving them. I go on to offer a hypothesis about which specific way of perceiving explains why distant things look smaller
The Oxford Convocation Habit
The Convocation habit in its modern form is a sleeveless garment worn by certain doctors on certain, now fairly rare occasions at Oxford. In fact, only Doctors of Divinity, Civil Law, Medicine, Letters, Science, and Philosophy wear a habit. Other doctors—Doctors of Music and holders of the relatively recent ‘professional’ doctorates—do not. At Oxford there are still three different graduate dresses, one of which is the Convocation habit for all d…
‘Different Forms of Gowns for All Sorts of Scholars in their Several Ranks’
This is a study of a one-page manuscript in the Oxford University Archives with the title ‘Different Forms of Gowns for All Sorts of Scholars in their Several Ranks’, dated June 1635. It was clearly written in connection with the Laudian Code of statutes, which was drafted in 1634 and adopted in 1636. The Code included regulations on university dress and its use at Oxford that would remain in force for 134 years. The document gives a concise spec…
Burge’s Defense of Perceptual Content
Dogs and Demons
The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese 'economic miracle' failed to notice a key point: that in the pursuit of this miracle the Japanese had turned their country into a degraded, concrete shambles - a wilderness of bad planning, corruption and crowding. Now that the miracle is at an end and Japan seems set to remain in the economic doldrums it must become apparent to everyone that one of the world's greatest cultures has ruined itself …
Yakaku Teikinsho. Secret Teachings of the Sesonji School of Calligraphy
Y rakaku Teikinsho I ca 1170-1175, is Japan's oldest extant calligraphic treatise.' Less inspired than the later treatises Saiyosho s tjk, ca 1180-1200, and Jubokusho A 1352, it is the work of a poorly regarded mediocrity, Fujiwara Koreyuki Ogf4, 1123?-1175, the sixth head of the Sesonji t#itf school of calligraphy. But mediocrity is sometimes the truest barometer of an age. Because Koreyuki concentrated on surface conventions, his work is now on…
Australia's North-West
The South-West Region of Western Australia
Texas State Income, 1950-1958
Dogs and Demons
The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese 'economic miracle' failed to notice a key point: that in the pursuit of this miracle the Japanese had turned their country into a degraded, concrete shambles - a wilderness of bad planning, corruption and crowding. Now that the miracle is at an end and Japan seems set to remain in the economic doldrums it must become apparent to everyone that one of the world's greatest cultures has ruined itself …
Burge’s Defense of Perceptual Content
Texas State Income, 1950-1958
The South-West Region of Western Australia
Australia's North-West
Yakaku Teikinsho. Secret Teachings of the Sesonji School of Calligraphy
Y rakaku Teikinsho I ca 1170-1175, is Japan's oldest extant calligraphic treatise.' Less inspired than the later treatises Saiyosho s tjk, ca 1180-1200, and Jubokusho A 1352, it is the work of a poorly regarded mediocrity, Fujiwara Koreyuki Ogf4, 1123?-1175, the sixth head of the Sesonji t#itf school of calligraphy. But mediocrity is sometimes the truest barometer of an age. Because Koreyuki concentrated on surface conventions, his work is now on…
Dogs and Demons
The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese 'economic miracle' failed to notice a key point: that in the pursuit of this miracle the Japanese had turned their country into a degraded, concrete shambles - a wilderness of bad planning, corruption and crowding. Now that the miracle is at an end and Japan seems set to remain in the economic doldrums it must become apparent to everyone that one of the world's greatest cultures has ruined itself …
Burge’s Defense of Perceptual Content
‘Different Forms of Gowns for All Sorts of Scholars in their Several Ranks’
This is a study of a one-page manuscript in the Oxford University Archives with the title ‘Different Forms of Gowns for All Sorts of Scholars in their Several Ranks’, dated June 1635. It was clearly written in connection with the Laudian Code of statutes, which was drafted in 1634 and adopted in 1636. The Code included regulations on university dress and its use at Oxford that would remain in force for 134 years. The document gives a concise spec…
The Oxford Convocation Habit
The Convocation habit in its modern form is a sleeveless garment worn by certain doctors on certain, now fairly rare occasions at Oxford. In fact, only Doctors of Divinity, Civil Law, Medicine, Letters, Science, and Philosophy wear a habit. Other doctors—Doctors of Music and holders of the relatively recent ‘professional’ doctorates—do not. At Oxford there are still three different graduate dresses, one of which is the Convocation habit for all d…
Feeling a Beat
When you hear music, you experience a repeating pulse that you naturally tap along to—you feel a beat. But you can feel a beat differently under sounds you hear as otherwise alike. Heard each way, things sound different. But, heard each way, nothing seems to change. So why do things sound different? I argue that, surprisingly, the usual theories of perception have no good answer. I then develop a view on which different ways of feeling a beat are…
Perspective and spatial experience
Distant things look smaller, in a sense. Why? I argue that the reason is not that our experiences have a certain subject matter, or are about certain mind-independent things and features. Instead, distant things look smaller because of our way of perceiving them. I go on to offer a hypothesis about which specific way of perceiving explains why distant things look smaller
Psychology (5 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)