Paul Coates
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Coates |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Coates |
| SIGNATURE | COATES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5437-1777 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Examining the Philosophical Underpinnings of Design Science Research (DSR)
Design science research (DSR) has become a popular method in information systems research and has been warmly welcomed in other disciplines as well. The importance of DSR is evident, in terms of its contribution to knowledge, as well as the creation of artefacts to solve problems of common interest. While it has demonstrated a clear methodology for achieving research goals, the philosophical underpinnings are not widely synthesised. There are inc…
Doubling, Distance and Identification in the Cinema
Colorido e/como monocromático
Os termos “cor” e “preto e branco” sugerem uma dialética de oposição simultânea e de difícil complementaridade, já que branco e preto também podem ser vistos como “cores”, assim como sua suposta “oposição” em relação à cor pode ser vista como um truque de linguagem, de ideologia ou de história. No cinema, é claro, o monocromático foi durante muitas décadas a regra contra a qual o filme colorido se definiu, seja como um sinal de exuberância e/ ou …
Invisibility, Medusa and the Mask
A dissolution of face into mask, suggestive of ‘the Divine’ in the case of Garbo, may also veer towards the demonic. Here the mask can render the eye potentially evil by demonstrating its ownership by someone unwilling to be recognized. Its ability to create invisibility (as in New Caledonian reports of this effect (Napier, 1986, p. 16)) allies it to spiritual, not necessarily beneficent, forces. Indeed, ambivalence, due to unreadability, may cha…
Screening the Face
Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such influential myths as that of Medusa. This is exemplified by a wide range o
Perceptual Experience - Tamar Gendler and John Hawthorne
Journal Article Perceptual Experience – Tamar Gendler and John Hawthorne Get access Perceptual Experience. Tamar Gendler and John Hawthorne (eds), (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. Pp. x + 550. Price £60.00.) Paul Coates Paul Coates University of Hertfordshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 234, January 2009, Pages 173–176, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.20…
The Metaphysics of Perception
This book is an important study in the philosophy of the mind; drawing on the work of philosopher Wilfrid Sellars and the theory of critical realism to develop a novel argument for understanding perception and metaphysics
Governance, Management, and Performance
Books reviewed in this article: Carolyn J. Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., eds., Governance and Performance: New Perspectives Patricia W. Ingraham, Philip G. Joyce, and Amy Kneedler Donahue, Government Performance: Why Management Matters Janet M. Kelly and William C. Rivenbark, Performance Budgeting for State and Local Government
Lucid Dreams
Deviant Causal Chains and Hallucinations
Deviant Causal Chains and Hallucinations
The causal theory of perception is opposed by anti‐causalists, who claim that the notion of causality is not part of our ordinary concept of perception, and sometimes raise the possibility of deviant causal chain counter‐examples in an attempt to undermine the causal theory. I argue that such examples in fact cause more difficulties for anti‐causalist accounts of perception. Anti‐causalists are unable to explain how the examples can be recognized…
National Socialism and Literary Adaptation
Eric Rentschler argues that ‘film production in the Third Reich offers a strikingly concrete example’ of the theoretical construct of ‘the dominant cinema’ (‘Hollywood’) devised by film theorists. But is the era of ‘Germany’s Hollywood’ ideological in the same way as Hollywood, or in a different way? Consideration of National Socialist adaptations of non‐Nazi texts may help one determine the specific meaning of the ideological in the Nazi context…
Observing the Observer
The identification of Poland with Jewish question in Western perceptions has been cemented in recent years by Claude Lanzmann's brief for the prosecution, Shoah (1985), by the wide attention accorded Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1994), and by the controversy over the planned construction of a convent and siting of a cross at the Auschwitz I site, to name only a few items. Andrzej Wajda remarks in an interview that each year passes the Wes…
Shifting Borders
SPECULATIVE INTRODUCTION Once upon a time, when even war was cold, we used to speak of For a while, however, in mid-1980s, some of us began to speak of Europe. Now we speak of Europe, usually placing a hyphen between and What lies behind this shifting nomenclature? Does it show that despite legitimate postmodern-or merely commonsensical-- scepticism regarding history's fabled pursuit of an Heglian dialectic of opposites and final synthesization, …
Walls and Frontiers
Forms of the Polish Intellectual’s Self-Criticism
ResumeCe texte aborde la question des formes de l’autocritique telles que pratiquées par les artistes de la Pologne socialiste. Ceci est fait dans le contexte surivant: d’un côté, les détentes politiques intermittentes du pays ont permis de savoir si oui ou non les artistes avaient fait des compromis pendant les périodes de plus forte oppression; d’un autre côté, l’idée de “l’autocritique” était compromise par son association avec le stalinisme. …
The Gorgon's Gaze
The Gorgon's Gaze
The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras, Paul Coates explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound cinema, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of Film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considerin…
Film and phenomenology
(1993). Film and phenomenology: Toward a realist theory of cinematic representation. History of European Ideas: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 113-114
Annette Insdorf, Indelible Shadows
Repetition and contradiction in the films of Oshima
Chris Marker and the Cinema as Time Machine
The emergence of time travel as a widespread literary theme in the fin-de-siècle period was part of a search for new areas for colonization once colonialism had completed its domination of all the world’s blank spaces. Time travel is in a sense travel between the unevenly developed countries of this world projected onto the universe. As Wells and Proust dreamed—each in his different way—of entering and mapping “the fourth dimension” (a period cli…
The Tenth Muse (Excerpts)
(. . .) The cinema is certainly not a pure and emphatic art as is painting and can only be ascribed to what Holzapfal terms inauthentic arts, i.e., those which work with given matenrials ot nature (gardening, art of actor, pedagogy) and which can, in his opinion, scale even greater heights than the arts proper. The artistic element is inherent in arrangement, direction, and of course filming of cinegrammes, but it can also stem from fact that eve…
Karol Irzykowski
Karol Irzykowski (1873-1944) was one of the key Polish intellectuals of the first half of this century. Hisfin-de-sidcle anti-novel Paluba (The Hag) ironically bared the processes of its own making in a manner anticipating Proust or Gide, and was to be a powerful influence on Gombrowicz in particular. A Germanist by training, his first published book was a monograph on Hebbel's dramatic theory. The most acute Polish literary critic of the inter-w…
Words After Speech
The Metaphysics of Perception
This book is an important study in the philosophy of the mind; drawing on the work of philosopher Wilfrid Sellars and the theory of critical realism to develop a novel argument for understanding perception and metaphysics
Deviant Causal Chains and Hallucinations
The causal theory of perception is opposed by anti‐causalists, who claim that the notion of causality is not part of our ordinary concept of perception, and sometimes raise the possibility of deviant causal chain counter‐examples in an attempt to undermine the causal theory. I argue that such examples in fact cause more difficulties for anti‐causalist accounts of perception. Anti‐causalists are unable to explain how the examples can be recognized…
Shifting Borders
SPECULATIVE INTRODUCTION Once upon a time, when even war was cold, we used to speak of For a while, however, in mid-1980s, some of us began to speak of Europe. Now we speak of Europe, usually placing a hyphen between and What lies behind this shifting nomenclature? Does it show that despite legitimate postmodern-or merely commonsensical-- scepticism regarding history's fabled pursuit of an Heglian dialectic of opposites and final synthesization, …
For Malcolm Lowry
The Story of the Lost Reflection
The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the estrangement felt before one’s own image in the mirror. But now the reflected image has become separable, transportable. And where is it transported? Before the
Words after Speech
The Realist Fantasy
Words After Speech
Nature’s Double Name
The title of this chapter may appear to be as enigmatic and obscure as the poem from which it is drawn. Nevertheless, it gnomically indicates the cardinal features of the poetry of Bolesław Leśmian, the greatest of twentieth-century Polish poets, and one of the greatest of modern European ones. It encapsulates the Leitmotiv of his verse: the relationship between nature and mankind. For Leśmian, mankind, which constituted itself through secession …
Pynchon’s Aesthetic Radicalism
Terry Eagleton’s recent article on ‘Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism’ (nlr 152) concludes one of its sections with the following sweeping, brilliant statement: ‘The autonomous, self-regarding, impenetrable modernist artefact, in all its isolated splendour, is the commodity as fetish resisting the commodity as exchange, its solution to reification
Chris Marker and the Cinema as Time Machine
The emergence of time travel as a widespread literary theme in the fin-de-siècle period was part of a search for new areas for colonization once colonialism had completed its domination of all the world’s blank spaces. Time travel is in a sense travel between the unevenly developed countries of this world projected onto the universe. As Wells and Proust dreamed—each in his different way—of entering and mapping “the fourth dimension” (a period cli…
The Tenth Muse (Excerpts)
(. . .) The cinema is certainly not a pure and emphatic art as is painting and can only be ascribed to what Holzapfal terms inauthentic arts, i.e., those which work with given matenrials ot nature (gardening, art of actor, pedagogy) and which can, in his opinion, scale even greater heights than the arts proper. The artistic element is inherent in arrangement, direction, and of course filming of cinegrammes, but it can also stem from fact that eve…
Karol Irzykowski
Karol Irzykowski (1873-1944) was one of the key Polish intellectuals of the first half of this century. Hisfin-de-sidcle anti-novel Paluba (The Hag) ironically bared the processes of its own making in a manner anticipating Proust or Gide, and was to be a powerful influence on Gombrowicz in particular. A Germanist by training, his first published book was a monograph on Hebbel's dramatic theory. The most acute Polish literary critic of the inter-w…
Repetition and contradiction in the films of Oshima
Annette Insdorf, Indelible Shadows
The Gorgon's Gaze
The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras, Paul Coates explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound cinema, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of Film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considerin…
Film and phenomenology
(1993). Film and phenomenology: Toward a realist theory of cinematic representation. History of European Ideas: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 113-114
The Gorgon's Gaze
Forms of the Polish Intellectual’s Self-Criticism
ResumeCe texte aborde la question des formes de l’autocritique telles que pratiquées par les artistes de la Pologne socialiste. Ceci est fait dans le contexte surivant: d’un côté, les détentes politiques intermittentes du pays ont permis de savoir si oui ou non les artistes avaient fait des compromis pendant les périodes de plus forte oppression; d’un autre côté, l’idée de “l’autocritique” était compromise par son association avec le stalinisme. …
Walls and Frontiers
Lucid Dreams
Deviant Causal Chains and Hallucinations
Deviant Causal Chains and Hallucinations
The causal theory of perception is opposed by anti‐causalists, who claim that the notion of causality is not part of our ordinary concept of perception, and sometimes raise the possibility of deviant causal chain counter‐examples in an attempt to undermine the causal theory. I argue that such examples in fact cause more difficulties for anti‐causalist accounts of perception. Anti‐causalists are unable to explain how the examples can be recognized…
National Socialism and Literary Adaptation
Eric Rentschler argues that ‘film production in the Third Reich offers a strikingly concrete example’ of the theoretical construct of ‘the dominant cinema’ (‘Hollywood’) devised by film theorists. But is the era of ‘Germany’s Hollywood’ ideological in the same way as Hollywood, or in a different way? Consideration of National Socialist adaptations of non‐Nazi texts may help one determine the specific meaning of the ideological in the Nazi context…
Observing the Observer
The identification of Poland with Jewish question in Western perceptions has been cemented in recent years by Claude Lanzmann's brief for the prosecution, Shoah (1985), by the wide attention accorded Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1994), and by the controversy over the planned construction of a convent and siting of a cross at the Auschwitz I site, to name only a few items. Andrzej Wajda remarks in an interview that each year passes the Wes…
Shifting Borders
SPECULATIVE INTRODUCTION Once upon a time, when even war was cold, we used to speak of For a while, however, in mid-1980s, some of us began to speak of Europe. Now we speak of Europe, usually placing a hyphen between and What lies behind this shifting nomenclature? Does it show that despite legitimate postmodern-or merely commonsensical-- scepticism regarding history's fabled pursuit of an Heglian dialectic of opposites and final synthesization, …
Governance, Management, and Performance
Books reviewed in this article: Carolyn J. Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., eds., Governance and Performance: New Perspectives Patricia W. Ingraham, Philip G. Joyce, and Amy Kneedler Donahue, Government Performance: Why Management Matters Janet M. Kelly and William C. Rivenbark, Performance Budgeting for State and Local Government
The Metaphysics of Perception
This book is an important study in the philosophy of the mind; drawing on the work of philosopher Wilfrid Sellars and the theory of critical realism to develop a novel argument for understanding perception and metaphysics
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