David Pitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3756358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Pitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitt |
| SIGNATURE | PITT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6976-7168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A method for calculating the implied no-recovery three-state transition matrix using observable population mortality incidence and disability prevalence rates among the elderly
Consciousness and Intentionality
Consciousness is extremely difficult to explain within the naturalist framework that has prevailed in analytic philosophy of mind for most of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first. Intentionality, on the other hand, insofar as it is a phenomenon that is not essentially tied to consciousness, was seen to be more tractable, and various theories grounding it in or reducing it to natural relations between the brain and the world it represe…
The Future of the Environment
A major concern of this book is how ordinary people might come to manage their own environment more effectively. A valuable resource for students of environmental studies, it considers how this might be facilitated by more appropriate technology, assistance and communications. Reviewed by the International Journal of Environmental Studies, it has`... something of interest and information in every chapter of this book and I urge all readers to loo…
The Phenomenology of Cognition Or What Is It Like to Think That P
A number of philosophers endorse, without argument, the view that there's something it's like consciously to think that p , which is distinct from what it's like consciously to think that q . This thesis, if true, would have important consequences for philosophy of mind and cognitive science. In this paper I offer two arguments for it. The first argument claims it would be impossible introspectively to distinguish conscious thoughts with respect …
Reply to Kac
Reply to Kac David Pitt In our article ‘Compositional idioms’ (Language 76.409–32), Jerrold Katz and I identified a large and productive class of expressions, typified by plastic flower, stuffed animal, rubber chicken, and kosher bacon, which, we claimed, have a distinctive semantics involving both idiomatic and compositional components.1 Our account of these expressions was motivated by a puzzle we encountered in attempting to accommodate certai…
Nativism and the Theory of Content
Recent controversy over psychological externalism has centered on the issues of its compatibility with privileged access and the a posteriority of empirical knowledge. 1 In this paper I wish to add to the controversy by raising another issue for externalism, viz., its compatibility with an important and widely held version of the innateness hypothesis. I argue that externalism does not, on generally accepted terms, sit comfortably with a plausibl…
Compositional Idioms
In this article we argue that there is a large class of expressions, typified by plastic flower, stuffed animal and kosher bacon , that have a unique semantics combining compositional, idiomatic and decompositional interpretation. These expressions are compositional because their constituents contribute their meanings to the meanings of the wholes; they are idiomatic because their interpretation involves assigning dictionary entries to nontermina…
Non‐fiction reviews
The Government They Deserve: the role of the elite in Sudan's political evolution. by Mansour Khalid, London: Keegan Paul International. 1990. 480pp. £25.00hb The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier. by Amy Wilentz, London: Jonathan Cape. 1989. 427pp. £14.95hb Mau Mau: an African crucible. by Robert B Edgerton, London: IB Tauris. 1990. 310pp. £14.94hb A Modern History of Kenya 1895–1980. by William R Ochieng (ed), London: Evans Brothers. 1989. 259…
Mountain World in Danger
The Cultural Dimension in West German Development Policy and the Contribution of Ethnology [and Comments and Reply]
Crisis, Pseudocrisis, or Supercrisis Poverty, Women, and Young People in the Himalaya a Survey of Recent Developments
David C. Pitt, Crisis, Pseudocrisis, or Supercrisis Poverty, Women, and Young People in the Himalaya a Survey of Recent Developments, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 6, No. 2 (May, 1986), pp. 119-131
The socioeconomic context of migrants and minorities
This paper is based on the author's experiences during first, participation in an anthropological study of migrants, particularly Samoan migrants, in New Zealand over a period of 10 years in the late 1960s–mid- 1970s (Pitt & MacPherson, 1975) and secondly, participation over the last 3 years in a World Health Organization programme concerned with promoting the health and welfare of children, many of whom were migrants living in poverty.
Sociology, islands and boundaries
Population, Production, and Culture in the Plains Societies of Northern Cameroon and Chad
In the context of an FAO seminar on agricultural planning and population, the author shows what the anthropologist can contribute to the analysis of this kind of problem. The case put forward is based on five years of field research in Chad and Cameroon from 1958 to 1976, among the Masa, Musey, Tuburi, and Kera. Their demography, production system, and social organization are examined. In a regional framework large enough to warrant a fresh plann…
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
Development from Below
The Social Dynamics of Development
Using Historical Sources in Anthropology and Sociology
Tradition and Economic Progress in Samoa
Development and Change
Tradition and Economic Progress in Samoa
Social Adjustment of Yugoslavs in Victoria
The Phenomenology of Cognition Or What Is It Like to Think That P
A number of philosophers endorse, without argument, the view that there's something it's like consciously to think that p , which is distinct from what it's like consciously to think that q . This thesis, if true, would have important consequences for philosophy of mind and cognitive science. In this paper I offer two arguments for it. The first argument claims it would be impossible introspectively to distinguish conscious thoughts with respect …
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
Using Historical Sources in Anthropology and Sociology
Compositional Idioms
In this article we argue that there is a large class of expressions, typified by plastic flower, stuffed animal and kosher bacon , that have a unique semantics combining compositional, idiomatic and decompositional interpretation. These expressions are compositional because their constituents contribute their meanings to the meanings of the wholes; they are idiomatic because their interpretation involves assigning dictionary entries to nontermina…
Sociology, islands and boundaries
Population, Production, and Culture in the Plains Societies of Northern Cameroon and Chad
In the context of an FAO seminar on agricultural planning and population, the author shows what the anthropologist can contribute to the analysis of this kind of problem. The case put forward is based on five years of field research in Chad and Cameroon from 1958 to 1976, among the Masa, Musey, Tuburi, and Kera. Their demography, production system, and social organization are examined. In a regional framework large enough to warrant a fresh plann…
Mountain World in Danger
Tradition and Economic Progress in Samoa
A method for calculating the implied no-recovery three-state transition matrix using observable population mortality incidence and disability prevalence rates among the elderly
Social Adjustment of Yugoslavs in Victoria
Tradition and Economic Progress in Samoa
Tradition and Economic Progress in Samoa
Development and Change
Using Historical Sources in Anthropology and Sociology
The Supranational Organization of Production
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
Development from Below
The Social Dynamics of Development
Population, Production, and Culture in the Plains Societies of Northern Cameroon and Chad
In the context of an FAO seminar on agricultural planning and population, the author shows what the anthropologist can contribute to the analysis of this kind of problem. The case put forward is based on five years of field research in Chad and Cameroon from 1958 to 1976, among the Masa, Musey, Tuburi, and Kera. Their demography, production system, and social organization are examined. In a regional framework large enough to warrant a fresh plann…
Sociology, islands and boundaries
The socioeconomic context of migrants and minorities
This paper is based on the author's experiences during first, participation in an anthropological study of migrants, particularly Samoan migrants, in New Zealand over a period of 10 years in the late 1960s–mid- 1970s (Pitt & MacPherson, 1975) and secondly, participation over the last 3 years in a World Health Organization programme concerned with promoting the health and welfare of children, many of whom were migrants living in poverty.
Crisis, Pseudocrisis, or Supercrisis Poverty, Women, and Young People in the Himalaya a Survey of Recent Developments
David C. Pitt, Crisis, Pseudocrisis, or Supercrisis Poverty, Women, and Young People in the Himalaya a Survey of Recent Developments, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 6, No. 2 (May, 1986), pp. 119-131
The Cultural Dimension in West German Development Policy and the Contribution of Ethnology [and Comments and Reply]
Non‐fiction reviews
The Government They Deserve: the role of the elite in Sudan's political evolution. by Mansour Khalid, London: Keegan Paul International. 1990. 480pp. £25.00hb The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier. by Amy Wilentz, London: Jonathan Cape. 1989. 427pp. £14.95hb Mau Mau: an African crucible. by Robert B Edgerton, London: IB Tauris. 1990. 310pp. £14.94hb A Modern History of Kenya 1895–1980. by William R Ochieng (ed), London: Evans Brothers. 1989. 259…
Mountain World in Danger
Nativism and the Theory of Content
Recent controversy over psychological externalism has centered on the issues of its compatibility with privileged access and the a posteriority of empirical knowledge. 1 In this paper I wish to add to the controversy by raising another issue for externalism, viz., its compatibility with an important and widely held version of the innateness hypothesis. I argue that externalism does not, on generally accepted terms, sit comfortably with a plausibl…
Compositional Idioms
In this article we argue that there is a large class of expressions, typified by plastic flower, stuffed animal and kosher bacon , that have a unique semantics combining compositional, idiomatic and decompositional interpretation. These expressions are compositional because their constituents contribute their meanings to the meanings of the wholes; they are idiomatic because their interpretation involves assigning dictionary entries to nontermina…
Reply to Kac
Reply to Kac David Pitt In our article ‘Compositional idioms’ (Language 76.409–32), Jerrold Katz and I identified a large and productive class of expressions, typified by plastic flower, stuffed animal, rubber chicken, and kosher bacon, which, we claimed, have a distinctive semantics involving both idiomatic and compositional components.1 Our account of these expressions was motivated by a puzzle we encountered in attempting to accommodate certai…
The Phenomenology of Cognition Or What Is It Like to Think That P
A number of philosophers endorse, without argument, the view that there's something it's like consciously to think that p , which is distinct from what it's like consciously to think that q . This thesis, if true, would have important consequences for philosophy of mind and cognitive science. In this paper I offer two arguments for it. The first argument claims it would be impossible introspectively to distinguish conscious thoughts with respect …
The Future of the Environment
A major concern of this book is how ordinary people might come to manage their own environment more effectively. A valuable resource for students of environmental studies, it considers how this might be facilitated by more appropriate technology, assistance and communications. Reviewed by the International Journal of Environmental Studies, it has`... something of interest and information in every chapter of this book and I urge all readers to loo…
Consciousness and Intentionality
Consciousness is extremely difficult to explain within the naturalist framework that has prevailed in analytic philosophy of mind for most of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first. Intentionality, on the other hand, insofar as it is a phenomenon that is not essentially tied to consciousness, was seen to be more tractable, and various theories grounding it in or reducing it to natural relations between the brain and the world it represe…
A method for calculating the implied no-recovery three-state transition matrix using observable population mortality incidence and disability prevalence rates among the elderly
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