Daniel Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3943876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2770-402X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Shallows of the Addicted Mind 1 , 2
One influential approach to the question of why addiction excuses focuses on the question of what addiction is and, more particularly, on what addiction turns out to be in the light of scientific inquiry, e.g. neurophysiological inquiry into the dopamine system. I note the tension between this approach and the apparent data‐point that lay folk, who have not performed the relevant inquiry, can know that addiction excuses. Given this data‐point, th…
Resisting inability
Reasonable adjustments for neurodivergent students in higher education
Neurodivergent students face significant disadvantages in higher education, where assessment often privileges neuro-normative written expression. This article argues that Large Language Models (LLMs) should be framed as accessibility tools that scaffold expression while preserving the student’s intellectual authorship, reframing the debate from academic integrity to equity. The argument is grounded in UK equality law and contends that the Court o…
Davide Panagia and Sentimental Empiricism
Memory without identity
I defend the view that episodic memory judgments do not depend on any kind of identification of oneself as the person whose past is being remembered, and are therefore logically (rather than merely de facto) immune from error through misidentification relative to “I”. There are two challenges to this view that have been pressed in the literature. One appeals to the idea of background presuppositions of identity and says that “I am the person from…
Feeling Free
Jonathan Gingerich uses examples from literature and song to introduce a kind of freedom he calls “spontaneous freedom.” He argues that spontaneous freedom is central to our ordinary talk of freedom but overlooked by the philosophical literature on free will, which focuses on a kind of freedom that is constitutively moral. I argue that spontaneous freedom is the standard kind of freedom, the constitutively moral kind. What is distinctive about Gi…
Islands of Perspectival Thought
This paper has two aims. The first concerns the question of whether there is any essential involvement of perspectival thought in intentional agency. I defend the view that the answer is ‘no’ for one kind of perspectival thought, and ‘yes’ for a different kind. Agency does not depend on de se thought, but it does depend on de nunc thought. The second aim of the paper is to defend a claim about the significance of this de se–de nunc contrast as a …
Risk Compensation After Initiation of Daily Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Nigeria
Temporal experience as metaphysically lightweight
Experience is the most primitive kind of intentional contact with reality. Metaphysical inquiry is one of the heights of human thought. It would not be surprising if experience was often silent on metaphysics, failing to offer support to one metaphysical disputant over the other, forcing them to fall back on nonexperiential considerations. I argue that the dispute between A‐ and B‐theorists about time is a dispute about which experience is silent…
Modernism Is Not for Children
This article argues that a sustained, consistent, and ambitious argument underlies Annette Michelson’s writings on art and film across the 1970s and 1980s. Working in relation to modernist discourses of the 1960s, Michelson links an account of time and temporal organization in cinema to a developmental model of film spectatorship. Read in this way, Michelson’s writing represents an alternate and overlooked strand of film theory and criticism, one…
Introduction
Censure et consensus dans le cinéma de l’après-guerre
Au royaume des cieux (Julien Duvivier, 1949) et La Cage aux filles (Maurice Cloche, 1950), deux fictions situées dans des centres de rééducation pour jeunes femmes, ont une histoire liée. Fondées sur le même fait divers, produites en même temps, elles font l'objet de tractations complexes lorsqu'elles sont soumises à la censure. Le film de Duvivier, dont le rapport au réel est ambigu, finit par échapper à une réécriture, alors que Maurice Cloche …
Introduction
The introduction to this special issue traces the interactions between the rise of media archaeology and the field of cinema and media studies. Arguing that media archaeology provided a necessary corrective around the question of media, I aim to show how its focus on historical narratives—especially on models of temporality—has led to a critical stagnation and a blind spot with regard to non-Western media. Drawing on the resources in film studies…
The essential indexical research program
The ways of thinking of things associated with a few indexical expressions—e.g. ‘I’, ‘now’, ‘that’—have a special role in the causation of action. They have a role not had by, for example, the guise associated with the ‘Superman’, or the guise associated with any other proper name. So, at least, an orthodox view about action—often associated with the phrase ‘essential indexical’—has it. Recently, this view has come under scrutiny. An increasing n…
Modernist Investigations
Towards a natural history of animated backgrounds
Writing about animation is still dominated by what Scott Bukatman calls ‘the ur-text for animation studies’, Sergei Eisenstein’s commentary on Disney.1 One can enumerate historical and institutional reasons for this enduring attraction: Eisenstein’s credentials as both a filmmaker and a film theorist; his unabashed enthusiasm for animation; his claims for its philosophical importance. Taken together his writings have often served to justify the p…
Impersonal Intentions
Matthew Babb offers a strikingly elegant argument for, and explanation of, the essential indexicality of intentional argument. His two key thoughts are that intentional action always involves intentions, and intentions are essentially indexical. In particular, every intention is indexically about the agent whose intention it is, i.e. de se. In this paper, I set out two models on which at least some intentions are not de se—they are impersonal—and…
Expanding the Rebalance
China's expansion into Latin America might well outflank the US rebalance in Asia. The United States needs a broader strategic option, one capable of ensuring access to markets and of reducing future strategic risk to US interests in Latin America
Play with Danger
Miriam Hansen's idea of vernacular modernism explains the global appeal of classical Hollywood cinema by drawing on its affinity with modernist aesthetics. She argues that cinema's modernism is part of a widespread mass culture response to the changing features of modern life and that Hollywood cinema's global appeal is based on the incarnation of the modern and up-to-date. But how do we determine whether any given film was, or could have been, a…
Bazin's Modernism
One of the basic assumptions about André Bazin's theory of cinema has been that his idea of realism stands in direct opposition to modernism. In this article, I further develop a revised account of Bazin's realism that I have offered elsewhere, which rethinks the basic assumptions of ontology and realism in his work. This brings Bazin into a surprising affinity with tenets of high (reflexive) modernism. From this position, a re-examination of his…
Max Ophuls and the Limits of Virtuosity
The place of nature in Godard's late films
The place of nature in Godard' s late films
Can You Think My ‘I’-Thoughts
Journal Article Can you think My ‘I’‐Thoughts? Get access Daniel Morgan Daniel Morgan Hertford College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 234, January 2009, Pages 68–85, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2008.563.x Published: 16 April 2008
Slow regolith degradation without creep determined by cosmogenic nuclide measurements in Arena Valley, Antarctica
Estimates of regolith degradation in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are currently based on indirect evidence and ancient ashes at or near the soil surface that suggest excellent preservation of surfaces. On the other hand, the existing cosmogenic-nuclide surface exposure ages from many parts of the Dry Valleys are younger than the age of surface deposits inferred from stratigraphic relations. This suggests some combination of surface erosi…
Rethinking Bazin
Bazin's Modernism
One of the basic assumptions about André Bazin's theory of cinema has been that his idea of realism stands in direct opposition to modernism. In this article, I further develop a revised account of Bazin's realism that I have offered elsewhere, which rethinks the basic assumptions of ontology and realism in his work. This brings Bazin into a surprising affinity with tenets of high (reflexive) modernism. From this position, a re-examination of his…
Introduction
Max Ophuls and the Limits of Virtuosity
Short Notices
SHORT NOTICES Get access D. A. L. MORGAN D. A. L. MORGAN University CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXIV, Issue CCCXXXI, April 1969, Page 385-a, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXIV.CCCXXXI.385-a Published: 01 April 1969
Rethinking Bazin
Slow regolith degradation without creep determined by cosmogenic nuclide measurements in Arena Valley, Antarctica
Estimates of regolith degradation in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are currently based on indirect evidence and ancient ashes at or near the soil surface that suggest excellent preservation of surfaces. On the other hand, the existing cosmogenic-nuclide surface exposure ages from many parts of the Dry Valleys are younger than the age of surface deposits inferred from stratigraphic relations. This suggests some combination of surface erosi…
The place of nature in Godard's late films
The place of nature in Godard' s late films
Can You Think My ‘I’-Thoughts
Journal Article Can you think My ‘I’‐Thoughts? Get access Daniel Morgan Daniel Morgan Hertford College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 234, January 2009, Pages 68–85, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2008.563.x Published: 16 April 2008
Max Ophuls and the Limits of Virtuosity
Bazin's Modernism
One of the basic assumptions about André Bazin's theory of cinema has been that his idea of realism stands in direct opposition to modernism. In this article, I further develop a revised account of Bazin's realism that I have offered elsewhere, which rethinks the basic assumptions of ontology and realism in his work. This brings Bazin into a surprising affinity with tenets of high (reflexive) modernism. From this position, a re-examination of his…
Play with Danger
Miriam Hansen's idea of vernacular modernism explains the global appeal of classical Hollywood cinema by drawing on its affinity with modernist aesthetics. She argues that cinema's modernism is part of a widespread mass culture response to the changing features of modern life and that Hollywood cinema's global appeal is based on the incarnation of the modern and up-to-date. But how do we determine whether any given film was, or could have been, a…
Expanding the Rebalance
China's expansion into Latin America might well outflank the US rebalance in Asia. The United States needs a broader strategic option, one capable of ensuring access to markets and of reducing future strategic risk to US interests in Latin America
Impersonal Intentions
Matthew Babb offers a strikingly elegant argument for, and explanation of, the essential indexicality of intentional argument. His two key thoughts are that intentional action always involves intentions, and intentions are essentially indexical. In particular, every intention is indexically about the agent whose intention it is, i.e. de se. In this paper, I set out two models on which at least some intentions are not de se—they are impersonal—and…
Modernist Investigations
Towards a natural history of animated backgrounds
Writing about animation is still dominated by what Scott Bukatman calls ‘the ur-text for animation studies’, Sergei Eisenstein’s commentary on Disney.1 One can enumerate historical and institutional reasons for this enduring attraction: Eisenstein’s credentials as both a filmmaker and a film theorist; his unabashed enthusiasm for animation; his claims for its philosophical importance. Taken together his writings have often served to justify the p…
The essential indexical research program
The ways of thinking of things associated with a few indexical expressions—e.g. ‘I’, ‘now’, ‘that’—have a special role in the causation of action. They have a role not had by, for example, the guise associated with the ‘Superman’, or the guise associated with any other proper name. So, at least, an orthodox view about action—often associated with the phrase ‘essential indexical’—has it. Recently, this view has come under scrutiny. An increasing n…
Censure et consensus dans le cinéma de l’après-guerre
Au royaume des cieux (Julien Duvivier, 1949) et La Cage aux filles (Maurice Cloche, 1950), deux fictions situées dans des centres de rééducation pour jeunes femmes, ont une histoire liée. Fondées sur le même fait divers, produites en même temps, elles font l'objet de tractations complexes lorsqu'elles sont soumises à la censure. Le film de Duvivier, dont le rapport au réel est ambigu, finit par échapper à une réécriture, alors que Maurice Cloche …
Introduction
The introduction to this special issue traces the interactions between the rise of media archaeology and the field of cinema and media studies. Arguing that media archaeology provided a necessary corrective around the question of media, I aim to show how its focus on historical narratives—especially on models of temporality—has led to a critical stagnation and a blind spot with regard to non-Western media. Drawing on the resources in film studies…
Temporal experience as metaphysically lightweight
Experience is the most primitive kind of intentional contact with reality. Metaphysical inquiry is one of the heights of human thought. It would not be surprising if experience was often silent on metaphysics, failing to offer support to one metaphysical disputant over the other, forcing them to fall back on nonexperiential considerations. I argue that the dispute between A‐ and B‐theorists about time is a dispute about which experience is silent…
Modernism Is Not for Children
This article argues that a sustained, consistent, and ambitious argument underlies Annette Michelson’s writings on art and film across the 1970s and 1980s. Working in relation to modernist discourses of the 1960s, Michelson links an account of time and temporal organization in cinema to a developmental model of film spectatorship. Read in this way, Michelson’s writing represents an alternate and overlooked strand of film theory and criticism, one…
Introduction
Islands of Perspectival Thought
This paper has two aims. The first concerns the question of whether there is any essential involvement of perspectival thought in intentional agency. I defend the view that the answer is ‘no’ for one kind of perspectival thought, and ‘yes’ for a different kind. Agency does not depend on de se thought, but it does depend on de nunc thought. The second aim of the paper is to defend a claim about the significance of this de se–de nunc contrast as a …
Risk Compensation After Initiation of Daily Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Nigeria
Memory without identity
I defend the view that episodic memory judgments do not depend on any kind of identification of oneself as the person whose past is being remembered, and are therefore logically (rather than merely de facto) immune from error through misidentification relative to “I”. There are two challenges to this view that have been pressed in the literature. One appeals to the idea of background presuppositions of identity and says that “I am the person from…
Feeling Free
Jonathan Gingerich uses examples from literature and song to introduce a kind of freedom he calls “spontaneous freedom.” He argues that spontaneous freedom is central to our ordinary talk of freedom but overlooked by the philosophical literature on free will, which focuses on a kind of freedom that is constitutively moral. I argue that spontaneous freedom is the standard kind of freedom, the constitutively moral kind. What is distinctive about Gi…
The Shallows of the Addicted Mind 1 , 2
One influential approach to the question of why addiction excuses focuses on the question of what addiction is and, more particularly, on what addiction turns out to be in the light of scientific inquiry, e.g. neurophysiological inquiry into the dopamine system. I note the tension between this approach and the apparent data‐point that lay folk, who have not performed the relevant inquiry, can know that addiction excuses. Given this data‐point, th…
Resisting inability
Reasonable adjustments for neurodivergent students in higher education
Neurodivergent students face significant disadvantages in higher education, where assessment often privileges neuro-normative written expression. This article argues that Large Language Models (LLMs) should be framed as accessibility tools that scaffold expression while preserving the student’s intellectual authorship, reframing the debate from academic integrity to equity. The argument is grounded in UK equality law and contends that the Court o…
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