Ben Bradley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Bradley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradley |
| SIGNATURE | BEN BRADLEY |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-7846-6940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Can we reduce injury risk during the adolescent growth spurt? An iterative sequence of prevention in male academy footballers
Background: The adolescent growth spurt is associated with an increased risk of injury in young athletes. Aim: This study aimed to use an interdisciplinary collaboration between technical coaches, sports scientists, and medical staff to mitigate this risk. Subjects and methods: 77 male academy footballers were followed across two seasons. At-risk players were identified using somatic maturity status and growth rate in stature and the lower limbs,…
Kyle Riismandel. Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001
Natural selection according to Darwin: Cause or effect
In the 1940s, the 'modern synthesis' (MS) of Darwinism and genetics cast genetic mutation and recombination as the source of variability from which environmental events naturally select the fittest, such 'natural selection' constituting the cause of evolution. Recent biology increasingly challenges this view by casting genes as followers and awarding the leading role in the genesis of adaptations to the agency and plasticity of developing phenoty…
Fruitleggers, Fruit Police, and British Columbia's Black Market in Orchard Fruit, 1935–1975
In the late 1930s, British Columbia orchardists established an orderly marketing system that mandated all tree fruit grown in the province's southern Interior be pooled and sold under the auspices of a marketing board called the BC Fruit Board. This compulsory system helped to stabilize the industry, but its benefits were shared unevenly across the community of growers, and not all were amenable to its tenets or willing to cooperate fully with it…
Agricultural, Food, and Fuel Markets from the Perspective of Social History / Marchés de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation et des combustibles du point de vue de l’histoire sociale
Agricultural, Food, and Fuel Markets from the Perspective of Social History / Marchés de l’agriculture, de l’alimentation et des combustibles du point de vue de l’histoire sociale Jodey Nurse (bio) and Ben Bradley (bio) Agricultural, Food, and Fuel Markets from the Perspective of Social History WHILE HOARDING OF HAND SANITIZER and toilet paper dominated the headlines, shortages of basic food items such as flour, eggs, yeast, and canned beans made…
Bio-banding in academy football: Player’s perceptions of a maturity matched tournament
Background: Individual differences in biological maturation impact player selection and development in youth football. Aim: To evaluate players perceptions of competing in a football tournament where they were matched by maturity rather than chronological age. Subjects: Participants included male junior footballers from three professional academies ( n = 115). Methods: The study employed multiple methods of analysis, including one sample mean t -…
British Columbia by the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape
In British Columbia by the Road, Ben Bradley takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the history of roads, highways, and motoring in British Columbia’s Interior, a remote landscape composed of plateaus and interlocking valleys, soaring mountains and treacherous passes. Challenging the idea that the automobile offered travellers the freedom of the road and a view of unadulterated nature, Bradley shows that an array of interested parties …
Vacationland: Tourism and the environment in the Colorado high country
Vacationland’s parameters are quite specific in terms of period and place. It focuses on the west-central region of Colorado – the knot of mountainous high country that straddles the continental di
Introduction: L’histoire du tourisme au Canada/Canadian Tourism History
The David Thompson Memorial Fort: An Early Outpost of Historically Themed Tourism in Western Canada
The David Thompson Memorial Fort was western Canada’s first purpose-built historically themed tourist attraction. Constructed in Invermere, British Columbia, in 1922, it was part of a larger campaign by a politically connected land development company to establish a tourist trade that would spur economic growth in an underdeveloped region. The Memorial Fort was sponsored by the Canadian Pacific Railway and Hudson’s Bay Company and was novel not o…
Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
This book originates from our realization several years ago that the fast-growing fields of environmental history and mobility studies had much in common, yet were not in close communication.We observed that a number of scholars in Canada, at various stages of their careers and employing perspectives gained from anthropology, geography, technology studies, and other fields, were examining the relationship between mobility and the environment in t…
Baby Empathy: Infant Distress and Peer Prosocial Responses
Empathy is an important competence in our social world, a motivator of prosocial behavior, and thought to develop throughout the second year of life. The current study examined infants’ responses to naturalistic peer distress to explore markers of empathy and prosocial behavior in young babies. Seventeen 8-month-old infants participated in a repeated measures design using the “babies-in-groups” paradigm, with maternal presence as the independent …
Car Country: An Environmental History
Instrumental Value
Instrumental value, or value as a means, is a sort of extrinsic (non‐intrinsic) value ( see Intrinsic Value). Instrumental and extrinsic value are sometimes identified (e.g., Frankena 1963: 65), but instrumental value is only one sort of extrinsic value; something might be valuable as a part, or as a sign, rather than as a means (Bradley 1998). Although intrinsic value has the more central place in moral theory, and has generated much more philos…
Infants in Family Day Care: Stories of Smooth and Striated Space
Family day care (FDC) is child care for a small group of children that occurs in the educator's home. Despite the important role it plays in the international early childhood education and care landscape, particularly for children under three years of age, FDC is currently under-researched. This article examines research about infants (under 19 months of age) in FDC from the past 20 years, using Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of smooth and stria…
Creating Space for Infants to Influence Ecec Practice: The encounter, écart, reversibility and ethical reflection
The idea that infant participation in research is achievable by researchers ‘voicing’ infants’ experiences and ‘perspectives’ is a central feature of current moves towards participatory research. In this article we offer an alternative. Specifically, we suggest a different point of reference than infants’ own experiences and ‘perspectives’; namely, the encounter between researcher and infant as it unfolds in practice. Drawing from a large-scale s…
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
Death has long been a preoccupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today. The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Death contains chapters that cover current philosophical thinking of death-related topics across the entire range of the discipline. These include metaphysical topics—such as the nature of death, the possibility of an afterlife, the nature of persons, and how our thinking about time affects what we think about death—as we…
The Oxford handbook of the philosophy of death
This handbook consists of 21 essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing
Infants as Others: Uncertainties, difficulties and (im)possibilities in researching infants’ lives
Increasingly, researchers are trying to understand what daily life is like for infants in non-parental care from the perspectives of the infants themselves. In this article, we argue that it is profoundly difficult, if not impossible, to know how infants experience their worlds with any certainty and, indeed, whether they do or do not possess well-worked out 'perspectives' on their experiences. Three key difficulties are discussed: firstly, the d…
Doing Away with Harm1
Narrativity, Freedom, and Redeeming the Past
Goodness and Justice
In Goodness and Justice , Joseph Mendola defends three related views in normative ethics: a novel form of consequentialism, a Bentham‐style hedonism about “basic” value, and a maximin principle about the value of a world. In defending these views he draws on his views in metaethics, action theory, and the philosophy of mind. It is an ambitious and wide‐ranging book. I begin with a quick explanation of Mendola’s views, and then raise some problems
Darwin’s Intertextual Baby: Erasmus Darwin as Precursor in Child Psychology
Child psychology is widely held to have been set in motion by Charles Darwin – by his spirit, his ideas, or even his findings. By drawing out parallels and contrasts between the work of Erasmus Darwin on infancy and that of his grandson, it is shown that the junior Darwin’s observations on babies are not to be seen as examples of data gathered to test modern-sounding hypotheses. Rather, they were an extension of and variations upon already existi…
Infancy as Paradise
This essay explores procedural and discursive ways in which psychological research idealizes infancy. These include the neglect of infant negativity, the overestimation of the infant’s understanding of others, the failure to explore the prevalence of conflict and ambivalence in mothers and the abstraction of mother and baby from their social context. It is argued that these features of research force a reconsideration of child psychology as a dom…
Commentary
Commentaries| January 20 2010 Commentary Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Ben S. Bradley Ben S. Bradley James Cook University, Townsville, Australia Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (1996) 39 (3): 132–134. https://doi.org/10.1159/000278427 Article history Published Online: January 20 2010 Content Tools Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tabl…
Doing Away with Harm1
Against Satisficing Consequentialism
The move to satisficing has been thought to help consequentialists avoid the problem of demandingness. But this is a mistake. In this article I formulate several versions of satisficing consequentialism. I show that every version is unacceptable, because every version permits agents to bring about a submaximal outcome in order to prevent a better outcome from obtaining. Some satisficers try to avoid this problem by incorporating a notion of perso…
Infants as Others: Uncertainties, difficulties and (im)possibilities in researching infants’ lives
Increasingly, researchers are trying to understand what daily life is like for infants in non-parental care from the perspectives of the infants themselves. In this article, we argue that it is profoundly difficult, if not impossible, to know how infants experience their worlds with any certainty and, indeed, whether they do or do not possess well-worked out 'perspectives' on their experiences. Three key difficulties are discussed: firstly, the d…
Two Concepts of Intrinsic Value
Creating Space for Infants to Influence Ecec Practice: The encounter, écart, reversibility and ethical reflection
The idea that infant participation in research is achievable by researchers ‘voicing’ infants’ experiences and ‘perspectives’ is a central feature of current moves towards participatory research. In this article we offer an alternative. Specifically, we suggest a different point of reference than infants’ own experiences and ‘perspectives’; namely, the encounter between researcher and infant as it unfolds in practice. Drawing from a large-scale s…
Baby Empathy: Infant Distress and Peer Prosocial Responses
Empathy is an important competence in our social world, a motivator of prosocial behavior, and thought to develop throughout the second year of life. The current study examined infants’ responses to naturalistic peer distress to explore markers of empathy and prosocial behavior in young babies. Seventeen 8-month-old infants participated in a repeated measures design using the “babies-in-groups” paradigm, with maternal presence as the independent …
Virtue Consequentialism
Virtue consequentialism has been held by many prominent philosophers, but has never been properly formulated. I criticize Julia Driver's formulation of virtue consequentialism and offer an alternative. I maintain that according to the best version of virtue consequentialism, attributions of virtue are really disguised comparisons between two character traits, and the consequences of a trait in non-actual circumstances may affect its actual status…
Fruitleggers, Fruit Police, and British Columbia's Black Market in Orchard Fruit, 1935–1975
In the late 1930s, British Columbia orchardists established an orderly marketing system that mandated all tree fruit grown in the province's southern Interior be pooled and sold under the auspices of a marketing board called the BC Fruit Board. This compulsory system helped to stabilize the industry, but its benefits were shared unevenly across the community of growers, and not all were amenable to its tenets or willing to cooperate fully with it…
Car Country: An Environmental History
To criticise the critic: Songs of experience
We contrast two senses of “critique” in psychology. In one, all empirical psychology is critical insofar as it opens the methodology of its findings up to public challenge. Today's “critical psychology” can be seen as extending this methodological reflexiveness to include reflexiveness about the discipline's political and value commitments. In this sense, however, a critical psychology would set out from the diversity of individualised experience…
Introduction: The Future of Developmental Theory
The future of developmental theory will only in part be shaped by topical matters. Of greater importance is the changing status of theory in the psychology of development. Recent scholarship has suggested that psychologists can no longer assume that development is synonymous with progress nor that psychologists can pronounce on development `in general'. Such recognitions radically alter the status of what psychologists can say about development, …
A Serpent's Guide to Children's `Theories of Mind'
This paper examines the grounding assumptions of the idea that young children have `theories of mind'. Focusing on Leslie's (1987) account, I point out that the `theory of mind' (TOM) approach to the child's mental life is empirically untestable because it must assume without evidence that children `tell the difference' between appearance and reality when dealing with others. This assumption is not only implausible on logical grounds. It also den…
Why Revolutionaries Need a New Psychological Poetic: Reply to Valsiner
Current critiques of developmental theory impugn all walks of cognitive and empirical psychology. They show that we must undergo a fundamental `renegotiation of our common language habits' as psychologists (Valsiner, p. 149). My difference with Valsiner is over how fundamental this renegotiation should be. He believes that psychologists simply `lack adequate concepts' to capture the phenomena that interest them. I argue that the deficiencies of c…
Is this Box Pandora's
Down with Development
The Value of Endangered Species
To criticise the critic: Songs of experience
We contrast two senses of “critique” in psychology. In one, all empirical psychology is critical insofar as it opens the methodology of its findings up to public challenge. Today's “critical psychology” can be seen as extending this methodological reflexiveness to include reflexiveness about the discipline's political and value commitments. In this sense, however, a critical psychology would set out from the diversity of individualised experience…
Virtue Consequentialism
Virtue consequentialism has been held by many prominent philosophers, but has never been properly formulated. I criticize Julia Driver's formulation of virtue consequentialism and offer an alternative. I maintain that according to the best version of virtue consequentialism, attributions of virtue are really disguised comparisons between two character traits, and the consequences of a trait in non-actual circumstances may affect its actual status…
Against Satisficing Consequentialism
The move to satisficing has been thought to help consequentialists avoid the problem of demandingness. But this is a mistake. In this article I formulate several versions of satisficing consequentialism. I show that every version is unacceptable, because every version permits agents to bring about a submaximal outcome in order to prevent a better outcome from obtaining. Some satisficers try to avoid this problem by incorporating a notion of perso…
Two Concepts of Intrinsic Value
A paradox for some theories of welfare
Well-Being and Death
Ben Bradley investigates what is good about life and what is bad about death. He argues that pleasure is what makes life go well and that death is bad for its victim because it deprives him of a continuing good life. Bradley considers intriguing related questions, including how death can be made less bad.
Saving People and Flipping Coins
Suppose you find yourself in a situation in which you can either save both A and B or save only C. A, B and C are relevantly similar—all are strangers to you, none is more deserving of life than any other, none is responsible for being in a life-threatening situation, and so on. John Taurek argued that when deciding what to do in such a situation, you should flip a coin, thereby giving each of A, B and C a 50% chance of survival. Only by doing th…
Darwin’s Intertextual Baby: Erasmus Darwin as Precursor in Child Psychology
Child psychology is widely held to have been set in motion by Charles Darwin – by his spirit, his ideas, or even his findings. By drawing out parallels and contrasts between the work of Erasmus Darwin on infancy and that of his grandson, it is shown that the junior Darwin’s observations on babies are not to be seen as examples of data gathered to test modern-sounding hypotheses. Rather, they were an extension of and variations upon already existi…
Infancy as Paradise
This essay explores procedural and discursive ways in which psychological research idealizes infancy. These include the neglect of infant negativity, the overestimation of the infant’s understanding of others, the failure to explore the prevalence of conflict and ambivalence in mothers and the abstraction of mother and baby from their social context. It is argued that these features of research force a reconsideration of child psychology as a dom…
Commentary
Commentaries| January 20 2010 Commentary Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Ben S. Bradley Ben S. Bradley James Cook University, Townsville, Australia Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (1996) 39 (3): 132–134. https://doi.org/10.1159/000278427 Article history Published Online: January 20 2010 Content Tools Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tabl…
Benatar and the Logic of Betterness
David Benatar argues that creating someone always harms them. I argue that his master argument rests on a conceptual incoherence
Narrativity, Freedom, and Redeeming the Past
Goodness and Justice
In Goodness and Justice , Joseph Mendola defends three related views in normative ethics: a novel form of consequentialism, a Bentham‐style hedonism about “basic” value, and a maximin principle about the value of a world. In defending these views he draws on his views in metaethics, action theory, and the philosophy of mind. It is an ambitious and wide‐ranging book. I begin with a quick explanation of Mendola’s views, and then raise some problems
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
Death has long been a preoccupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today. The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Death contains chapters that cover current philosophical thinking of death-related topics across the entire range of the discipline. These include metaphysical topics—such as the nature of death, the possibility of an afterlife, the nature of persons, and how our thinking about time affects what we think about death—as we…
The Oxford handbook of the philosophy of death
This handbook consists of 21 essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing
Infants as Others: Uncertainties, difficulties and (im)possibilities in researching infants’ lives
Increasingly, researchers are trying to understand what daily life is like for infants in non-parental care from the perspectives of the infants themselves. In this article, we argue that it is profoundly difficult, if not impossible, to know how infants experience their worlds with any certainty and, indeed, whether they do or do not possess well-worked out 'perspectives' on their experiences. Three key difficulties are discussed: firstly, the d…
Doing Away with Harm1
Instrumental Value
Instrumental value, or value as a means, is a sort of extrinsic (non‐intrinsic) value ( see Intrinsic Value). Instrumental and extrinsic value are sometimes identified (e.g., Frankena 1963: 65), but instrumental value is only one sort of extrinsic value; something might be valuable as a part, or as a sign, rather than as a means (Bradley 1998). Although intrinsic value has the more central place in moral theory, and has generated much more philos…
Infants in Family Day Care: Stories of Smooth and Striated Space
Family day care (FDC) is child care for a small group of children that occurs in the educator's home. Despite the important role it plays in the international early childhood education and care landscape, particularly for children under three years of age, FDC is currently under-researched. This article examines research about infants (under 19 months of age) in FDC from the past 20 years, using Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of smooth and stria…
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