Charles Travis
Biographic Data
| ID | 495510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Travis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Travis |
| SIGNATURE | TRAVIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9278-5364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mapping American Social Movements Project
Environment as a Weapon: Geographies, Histories and Literature
Response to Hutchinson
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Response to Shieh
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Translating Topographies: Brian Friel’s Approach to Language, Landscape, and Toponymy in Ireland
The North Atlantic Fish Revolution (ca. AD 1500)
We propose the concept of the “Fish Revolution” to demarcate the dramatic increase in North Atlantic fisheries after AD 1500, which led to a 15-fold increase of cod ( Gadus morhua ) catch volumes and likely a tripling of fish protein to the European market. We consider three key questions: (1) What were the environmental parameters of the Fish Revolution? (2) What were the globalising effects of the Fish Revolution? (3) What were the consequences…
Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis: Landscapes of Time and Place
Logical Alien: Conant and His Critics
Historical and Imagined GIS Borderlandscapes of the American West: Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove Tetralogy and LA Noirscapes
Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning counter-western Lonesome Dove (part of a tetralogy, set between 1840 and 1900) and the works of LA Noir detective fiction writers (from the 1940s to 1997) represent the American west and urban southwest of Los Angeles as a dynamic mosaic of human and environmental borderlandscapes. McMurtry's perspective provides an Anglo-European eye, influenced by Cervantean Iberian literary tropes on the transformation o…
Inventing the Grand Banks: A deep chart
As a feature of the Fish Revolution (1400-1700), the early modern "invention" of the Grand Banks in literary and cartographical documents facilitated a massive and unprecedented extraction of cod from the waters of the north Atlantic and created the Cod/Sack trade Triangle. This overlapped with the southern Atlantic Slave, Sugar, and Tobacco Triangle to capitalise modern European and North American societies. In 1719, Pierre de Charlevoix claimed…
Changer les rôles
Entre 1892 et 1895, Frege écrit : « Les concepts ne peuvent jamais être dans les mêmes relations que les objets. Penser qu'ils le peuvent ne serait pas faux mais impossible ». Certains y voient quelque chose de romantique ou de mystérieux : la structure du sens serait manifeste, mais resterait indicible. Or, Frege s'est trompé. Au fond, il confond le catégoriel et le relationnel. Cet article cherche d'abord à comprendre les raisons de cette disti…
A review of literature on evaluating the scientific, social and political impact of social sciences and humanities research
Recently, the need to contribute to the evaluation of the scientific, social, and political impact of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research has become a demand of policy makers and society. The international scientific community has made significant advances that have transformed the impact of evaluation landscape. This article reviews the existing scientific knowledge on evaluation tools and techniques that are applied to assess the scie…
The Digital Anthropocene, Deep Mapping, and Environmental Humanities' Big Data
The Digital Anthropocene, Deep Mapping, and Environmental Humanities' Big Data Charles Travis (bio) Over the past two hundred years, the development of the steam engine, the mass burning of coal during the Industrial Revolution, the detonation of the atomic bomb in 1945, and global carbon dioxide emissions over the last half century are all manifestations of human-technological agencies that have culminated into a cultural crisis ushering us out …
Geoarchaeological Modeling of Late Paleoindian Site Location in the Northwestern Great Lakes Region
Full-time occupation of recently deglaciated landscapes in the northwestern Great Lakes by late Paleoindian groups marks a key milestone in the colonization of the region, yet settlement-subsistence systems of these colonizing populations remains poorly understood. Here we apply geoarchaeological modeling and early Holocene environmental reconstruction to analyze environmental settings of known late Paleoindian sites in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula…
Imagined landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian spatial narratives
Imagined landscapes: geovisualizing Australian spatial narratives." Social & Cultural Geography, 18(6), pp. 888–889
Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action
Human preferences, practices and actions are the main drivers of global environmental change in the 21st century. It is crucial, therefore, to promote pro-environmental behavior. In order to accomplish this, we need to move beyond rational choice and behavioral decision theories, which do not capture the full range of commitments, assumptions, imaginaries, and belief systems that drive those preferences and actions. Humanities disciplines, such a…
Acts of Perception: Samuel Becket, Time, Space and the Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland, 1922–1949
Situated in the wake of the first and second waves of the Digital Humanities, the Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland, 1922–1949 website provides interactive mapping and timeline features for academics and members of the public who are interested in the intersection of Irish literary culture, history, and environment. The site hosts Google Earth software produced interfaces with the EXHIBIT Timeline functions made available by the Semantic Interope…
Visual Geo-Literary and Historical Analysis, Tweetflickrtubing, and James Joyce's Ulysses (1922)
Situated at the intersection of the arts and sciences, Humanities GIS (HumGIS) are contributing to new knowledge systems emerging in the digital, spatial, and geo-humanities. This article discusses the conceptualization and operationalization of two HumGIS models engaging the cartographical and discursive tools employed by James Joyce to compose Ulysses ([1922] 1992 ———. [1922] 1992. Ulysses. London: Penguin. [Google Scholar]). The first model is…
Le mental et le social
Qu'est-ce au juste que le mental ? Les nouvelles « sciences de l'esprit » ne paraissent pas avoir de doute sur la réponse : c'est ce qu'il y a dans la boîte crânienne. L'idée que le mental puisse être autre chose que le côté « interne » d'une métaphore qui l'oppose à de l'externe, et qu'à ce titre il puisse s'avérer intrinsèquement social, leur paraît incongrue. C'est pourtant cette idée que le présent ouvrage s'applique à défendre. Il élabore u…
The Silences of the Senses
On a current view, in perceptual experience things, or things perceived, are represented as being (perhaps to be) thus and so (where it is not the perceiver who thus represents things to himself). This chapter begins to detail the reasons why that idea is a non-starter. One crucial idea: verbs of perception, such as 'see' and 'looks', have non-perceptual uses (such as 'I see what you mean'). Impressions of representing in or by experience are eng…
Perception: Essays after Frege
Charles Travis presents a series of essays on philosophy of perception, inspired by the insights of Gottlob Frege. He engages with a range of contemporary thinkers and explores key issues, including how perception can make the world bear on what we do or think and what sorts of capacities we draw on in representing something as (being) something.
From the ruins of time and space: The psychogeographical GIS of post-colonial Dublin in Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds (1939)
Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds (2001[1939]) serves as an avant-garde guide to the streetscapes and zeitgeist of post-colonial Dublin in the 1930s, and illuminates Jonathan Raban's perspective that ‘one man's city is the sum of all the routes he takes through it, a spoor as unique as a finger print’. Joseph Hassett and Declan Kiberd have respectively observed that O'Brien's mise en abyme reflects the ‘concentric enfolding of modern urban events…
World views: Metageographies of Modernist Fiction
Charles TravisTrinity College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandE-mail: [email protected]© 2013, Charles Travis
Flirting with Space: Journeys and Creativity
History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) – either as 'standard' GIS or custom made Historical GIS (HGIS) – have become quite popular in some historical sub-disciplines, such as Economic and Social History or Historical Geography. 'Mainstream' history, however, seems to be rather unaffected by this trend. Why is it that computer applications in general have failed to make much headway in history departments, despite the first steps being undertaken …
On What Is Strictly Speaking True
Let us begin with a piece of intellectual history. The story begins in a period encapsulating the second world war - say the '40's, give and take a bit. Around then, it began to be argued with force that an expression - e.g., an English one - while it well might mean something, does not say anything, and notably (in typical cases at least) no one thing in particular. The principal behind the argument was surely J.L. Austin, though, I would claim,…
A Sense of Occasion
A continuous Oxford tradition on knowledge runs from John Cook Wilson to John McDowell. A central idea is that knowledge is not a species of belief or that, in McDowell's terms, it is not a hybrid state; that, moreover, it is a kind of taking in of what is there that precludes one's being, for all one can see, wrong. Cook Wilson and McDowell differ on what this means as to the scope of knowledge. J.L. Austin set out the requisite foundations for …
Inventing the Grand Banks: A deep chart
As a feature of the Fish Revolution (1400-1700), the early modern "invention" of the Grand Banks in literary and cartographical documents facilitated a massive and unprecedented extraction of cod from the waters of the north Atlantic and created the Cod/Sack trade Triangle. This overlapped with the southern Atlantic Slave, Sugar, and Tobacco Triangle to capitalise modern European and North American societies. In 1719, Pierre de Charlevoix claimed…
The Digital Anthropocene, Deep Mapping, and Environmental Humanities' Big Data
The Digital Anthropocene, Deep Mapping, and Environmental Humanities' Big Data Charles Travis (bio) Over the past two hundred years, the development of the steam engine, the mass burning of coal during the Industrial Revolution, the detonation of the atomic bomb in 1945, and global carbon dioxide emissions over the last half century are all manifestations of human-technological agencies that have culminated into a cultural crisis ushering us out …
Geoarchaeological Modeling of Late Paleoindian Site Location in the Northwestern Great Lakes Region
Full-time occupation of recently deglaciated landscapes in the northwestern Great Lakes by late Paleoindian groups marks a key milestone in the colonization of the region, yet settlement-subsistence systems of these colonizing populations remains poorly understood. Here we apply geoarchaeological modeling and early Holocene environmental reconstruction to analyze environmental settings of known late Paleoindian sites in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula…
Imagined landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian spatial narratives
Imagined landscapes: geovisualizing Australian spatial narratives." Social & Cultural Geography, 18(6), pp. 888–889
From the ruins of time and space: The psychogeographical GIS of post-colonial Dublin in Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds (1939)
Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds (2001[1939]) serves as an avant-garde guide to the streetscapes and zeitgeist of post-colonial Dublin in the 1930s, and illuminates Jonathan Raban's perspective that ‘one man's city is the sum of all the routes he takes through it, a spoor as unique as a finger print’. Joseph Hassett and Declan Kiberd have respectively observed that O'Brien's mise en abyme reflects the ‘concentric enfolding of modern urban events…
World views: Metageographies of Modernist Fiction
Charles TravisTrinity College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandE-mail: [email protected]© 2013, Charles Travis
Meaning versus truth
As With other topics about which philosophers theorize, there are two approaches to semantics. One might begin by stipulating what the content of a semantic theory of a language is to be, that is, what the theory is to say in describing what each expression in the language means. Alternatively, one can begin by trying to formulate semantic theories with adequate descriptive apparatus - vocabulary and description forming rules - for marking the di…
Causes, events and ontology
Saying and Understanding: A Generative Theory of Illocutions
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Saying and Understanding: A Generative Theory of Illocutions. By Charles Travis. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1975. Pp. x + 182. Price £5.00) David Holdcroft David Holdcroft Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 106, January 1977, Pages 82–84, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218938 Published: 01 January 1977
Meaning versus truth
As With other topics about which philosophers theorize, there are two approaches to semantics. One might begin by stipulating what the content of a semantic theory of a language is to be, that is, what the theory is to say in describing what each expression in the language means. Alternatively, one can begin by trying to formulate semantic theories with adequate descriptive apparatus - vocabulary and description forming rules - for marking the di…
Reference, speakers and semantics
The True and the False: The Domain of the Pragmatic
Les objets de croyance
Travis Charles. Les objets de croyance. In: Communications, 40, 1984. Grammaire générative et sémantique, sous la direction de Pierre Jacob. pp. 229-257
Vagueness, Observation, and Sorites
Vagueness, Observation, and Sorites Get access CHARLES TRAVIS CHARLES TRAVIS Department of Philosophy Katholieke Hogeschool TilburgPostbus 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg Netherlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XCIV, Issue 375, July 1985, Pages 345–366, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XCIV.375.345 Published: 01 July 1985
Personal Being
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Personal Being. By Rom Harré. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983. Pp. x + 299. Price £17.00) Charles Travis Charles Travis University of Tilburg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 140, July 1985, Pages 322–323, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218916 Published: 01 July 1985
On What Is Strictly Speaking True
Let us begin with a piece of intellectual history. The story begins in a period encapsulating the second world war - say the '40's, give and take a bit. Around then, it began to be argued with force that an expression - e.g., an English one - while it well might mean something, does not say anything, and notably (in typical cases at least) no one thing in particular. The principal behind the argument was surely J.L. Austin, though, I would claim,…
Meaning and Interpretation
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Meaning and Interpretation. Edited By Charles Travis (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. vii + 308. Price £22.50.) Michael Luntley Michael Luntley University College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 149, October 1987, Pages 473–477, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219584 Published: 01 October 1987
Meaning and Interpretation
Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Language
Meaning and use names and ostension family resemblance explanations of meaning varieties of force meaning, intending and asserting the sentence radical meaning and truth meaning and grammar defining meaning meaning and verification realism and infinity anti-realism and the past
IX—On Constraints of Generality
Journal Article IX—On Constraints of Generality Get access Charles Travis Charles Travis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 94, Issue 1, 1 June 1994, Pages 165–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/94.1.165 Published: 09 September 2015
Meaning's role in truth
What words mean plays a role in determining when they would be true; but not an exhaustive one. For that role leaves room for variation in truth conditions, with meanings fixed, from one speaking of words to another. What role meaning plays depends on what truth is; on what words, by virtue of meaning what they do are requied to have done (as spoken) in order to have said what is true. There is a deflationist position on what truth is: the notion…
The Uses of Sense: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language
The Uses of Sense presents a reading of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, concentrating on themes concerning representation, truth, and objectivity. It offers a particular understanding of the radical break Wittgenstein made with what is still the conventional understanding as to what it is for a representation to be true—an understanding manifest in standard treatments of the relation between meaning and truth. On the new view, for an…
Logic, Thought and Language
Much contemporary philosophical debate centres on the topics of logic, thought and language, and on the connections between these topics. This collection of articles is based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2000–2001. Its contributors include a number of those working at the forefront of the field, and in their papers they reflect their own current pre-occupations. As such, the volume will be of interest to all ph…
Unshadowed Thought: Representations in Thought and Language
The Silence of the Senses
There is a view abroad on which (a) perceptual experience has (a) representational content in this sense: in it something is represented to the perceiver as so. On the view, a perceptual experience has a face value at which it may be taken, or which may be rejected. This paper argues that that view is mistaken: there is nothing in perceptual experience which makes it so that in it anything is represented as so (except insofar as the perceiver rep…
A Sense of Occasion
A continuous Oxford tradition on knowledge runs from John Cook Wilson to John McDowell. A central idea is that knowledge is not a species of belief or that, in McDowell's terms, it is not a hybrid state; that, moreover, it is a kind of taking in of what is there that precludes one's being, for all one can see, wrong. Cook Wilson and McDowell differ on what this means as to the scope of knowledge. J.L. Austin set out the requisite foundations for …
Thought's Footing
Thought's footing: A theme in Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations
Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into a unified view of the work as whole. His methodological starting-point is to see Wittgenstein's work as a response to Frege's." "Travis gives his own distinctive take on such topics as the problem…
Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment – By Andrew Kincaid
Occasion-Sensitivity: Selected Essays
Charles Travis presents a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive view of the relation of thought to language. He argues that there are varying conditions of correctness which determine whether words express a given concept, and thus that meaning does not determine truth conditions
Objectivity and the Parochial
Charles Travis investigates a puzzling problem in philosophy. Thought must be about a world independent of us. But our capacities for thought shape thought's objects. So it can seem that what is true, and what is not, cannot be independent of us. 'Objectivity and the Parochial' suggests how we might resolve this paradox
William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape
William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape, by Charles S. Aiken, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xiii+283 pp., US$34.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-8203-3219-2 The imaginary Yoknapatawpha C
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