R D Jacobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 58332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R D Jacobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | R D |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobson |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSON R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9668-4456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The ‘wilds of Brompton’: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Women Writers’ Early Careers in the Sociable London Suburbs
In this paper, we geocode the residences of nineteenth-century Brompton residents to the level of the building in order to argue that literary sociability and propinquity – leading to face-to-face interaction with writers, editors, artists, actors, and publishers – may have played a more important role in the formation of women’s literary careers than scholars have yet recognized. Taking the popular novelist and poet Dinah Craik as our case study…
Mapping Victorian Homes and Haunts: A Methodological Introduction
Quality Assessment and Accessibility Mapping in an Image-Based Geocrowdsourcing Testbed
Geocrowdsourcing is a significant new focus area in mapping for people with disabilities. It utilizes public data contributions that are difficult to capture with traditional mapping workflows. Along with the benefits of geocrowdsourcing are critical drawbacks, including reliability and accuracy. A geocrowdsourcing testbed has been designed to explore the dynamics of geocrowdsourcing and quality assessment and produce temporally relevant navigati…
Mapping the location, design and decline of London's psychiatric asylums (1831–2012)
This research analyses the location of psychiatric hospitals, previously known as ‘mental asylums’ built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in London, UK. Twenty of the largest facilities are geo-referenced using a mixed-methods approach including the use of archival documents, historical Ordnance Survey mapping, and a variety of recent digital datasets. The hospital locations are plotted on Ordnance Survey© [2013. Retrieved July …
Moral Psychology and Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics
These nine original essays examine the moral and philosophical implications of developments in the science of ethics, the growing movement that seeks to use recent empirical findings to answer long-standing ethical questions. Efforts to make moral psychology a thoroughly empirical discipline have divided philosophers along methodological fault lines, isolating discussions that will profit more from intellectual exchange. This volume takes an even…
Old poison in new security bottles: Contemporary immigration restriction and the detention regime
The state-led immigration laws of 2010 and 2011 are but the most recent examples of anti-immigrant activity which cycles throughout the United States’ history. This article addresses why particular states passed anti-immigration legislation and why all the policies center on criminal penalties and enhanced enforcement. We argue that partisan control and specific demographic changes in the context of increased national attention to immigration hel…
Crowdsourcing techniques for augmenting traditional accessibility maps with transitory obstacle information
One of the most scrutinized contemporary techniques for geospatial data collection and production is crowdsourcing. This inverts the traditional top-down geospatial data production and distribution methods by emphasizing on the participation of the end user or community. The technique has been shown to be particularly useful in the domain of accessibility mapping, where it can augment traditional mapping methods and systems by providing informati…
Exemplifying accumulation by dispossession: Mining and indigenous peoples in the philippines
Using a case study from the Philippines, this article applies David Harvey's theory of accumulation by dispossession to show how neoliberal policies enable mining corporations to locate, lay claim to, and develop mineral resources in formerly inaccessible areas, which for centuries have provided safe haven for indigenous peoples and their cultures. It explains why these factors are leading to an increase in armed conflict between military forces …
The assessment of non visual maritime cognitive maps of a blind sailor: A case study
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. Nowadays, thanks to the accessibility of GPS, sighted people widely use electronic charts to navigate through different kinds of environments. In the maritime domain, it has considerably improved the precision of course control. In this domain, blind sailors can not make a compass bearing, however they are able to interact with multimodal electronic charts. Indeed, we conceived S…
The Roman Catholic Church: Committed to the poor in Guatemala
The coexistence of conservative and liberation perspectives within the Roman Catholic Church still causes disagreements. However, since Vatican II, the Catholic Church in Guatemala has established a commitment to act as a church of the poor. There is tension between Guatemala's elite and the Church, which has led to the murders of Church members and the issuance of death threats to others. Although the growth of evangelical movements has caused t…
Ecclesial opposition to nonferrous mining in Guatemala: Neoliberalism meets the church of the poor in a shattered society
Guatemala, a nation plagued by the legacy of its brutal 36‐year civil war, has, in recent years liberalized its mining law to encourage the entry of multinational mining corporations. These mining companies have included two Canadian companies, which have developed the two most prominent, and controversial, mining projects in Guatemala. Using the lens of political ecology to demonstrate how environmental analysis and policy can be reframed toward…
Utilitarianism without Consequentialism: The Case of John Stuart Mill
This essay argues, flouting paradox, that Mill was a utilitarian but not a consequentialist. First, it contends that there is logical space for a view that deserves to be called utilitarian despite its rejection of consequentialism; second, that this logical space is, in fact, occupied by John Stuart Mill. The key to understanding Mill's unorthodox utilitarianism and the role it plays in his moral philosophy is to appreciate his sentimentalist me…
Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS): Challenges of implementation in Churchill, Manitoba
Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) increasingly are utilized in geographic research, yet researchers rarely are provided with guidance on how to implement PPGIS in an appropriate and effective manner. This article reports on the process of research that explores responses to current and future local tourism development offered by a sample of residents using a modified PPGIS approach called ‘community action geographic inf…
Ecclesial Opposition to Mining on Mindanao: Neoliberalism Encounters the Church of the Poor in the Land of Promise
In the developing world, environmental issues are often livelihood issues as the poor try to protect resources necessary for their subsistence. This paper examines the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church, on the Island of Mindanao, to neoliberal policies designed by the Philippine government to encourage nonferrous metals mining by multinational corporations. Mining is an activity with substantial potential for environmental degradation that …
Ecclesial Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in the Philippines: Neoliberalism Encounters Liberation Theology
This paper discusses the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines to the efforts of that nation's government to attract foreign investment by mining corporations into the Philippi
Mining amid armed conflict: Nonferrous metals mining in the Philippines
In recent years the government of the Philippines has attempted to accelerate the growth of the nation's economy by encouraging the extraction of its mineral resources by multinational corporations. The Philippines is also a nation beset by armed violence carried out by anti‐state groups. This article discusses how the presence, and activities, of these groups generate problems for a mining‐based development paradigm. The article examines: the li…
Suicide Bombings and Targeted Killings in (Counter-) Terror Games
This article develops sequential game models for key operational terrorist (how often to attack) and government (how often to execute targeted killings) decisions taken during a (counter-) terror campaign such as the second intifada. Key results include the following: The government initiates targeted killings when the marginal number of Israeli civilian lives saved from prevented terror attacks exceeds the marginal number of Palestinian civilian…
Design Considerations for Haptic and Auditory Map Interfaces
Communicating spatial information to the blind and visually impaired using maps and graphics presents many difficulties. Past research has offered advice to cartographers on topics such as tactile areal, point, and line symbolization; on perceptual problems related to dense linear features on tactile maps; and on the relationship between categorical data, measurement theory, and tactile discrimination. With this previous work as a foundation, we …
Sentiment and Value
The Moralistic Fallacy: On the 'Appropriateness' of Emotions
Philosophers often call emotions appropriate or inappropriate. What is meant by such talk? In one sense, explicated in this paper, to call an emotion appropriate is to say that the emotion is fitting: it accurately presents its object as having certain evaluative features. For instance, envy might be thought appropriate when one's rival has something good which one lacks. But someone might grant that a circumstance has these features, yet deny th…
Mill on Liberty, Speech, and the Free Society
Philosophy & Public AffairsVolume 29, Issue 3 p. 276-309 Mill on Liberty, Speech, and the Free Society DANIEL JACOBSON, DANIEL JACOBSON DANIEL JACOBSON is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Franklin & Marshall College. His research interests are in moral philosophy, broadly construed; he has published on topics in aesthetics, ethical theory, moral psychology, philosophy of law, and political philosophy. He is a previous contributor to Philosoph…
Newberry exploratory slimhole: Drilling and testing
During July--November, 1995, Sandia National Laboratories, in cooperation with CE Exploration, drilled a 5,360 feet exploratory slimhole (3.895 inch diameter) in the Newberry Known Geothermal Resource Area (KGRA) near Bend, Oregon. This well was part of Sandia`s program to evaluate slimholes as a geothermal exploration tool. During and after drilling the authors performed numerous temperature logs, and at the completion of drilling attempted to p…
Freedom of Speech Acts? A Response to Langton
The Migrations and Changing Culture of the Alabama and Coushatta, 1700-1900
The Alabama and Coushatta Indians have been known to history since the De Solo Expedition (1539-1541 A.D.) and to prehistory since Mature Mississippian times (1200-1500 A.D.). This study focuses on cultural changes through time—from 1700 A.D. to 1900 A.D.—and postulates a reducing tradition, or an increasing simplification through loss of culture traits over the time frame. Both tribes passed from the Mature Mississippian to the Burial Urn Cultur…
Land and People: A Cultural Geography of Preindustrial New Jersey: Origins and Settlement Patterns
The Moralistic Fallacy: On the 'Appropriateness' of Emotions
Philosophers often call emotions appropriate or inappropriate. What is meant by such talk? In one sense, explicated in this paper, to call an emotion appropriate is to say that the emotion is fitting: it accurately presents its object as having certain evaluative features. For instance, envy might be thought appropriate when one's rival has something good which one lacks. But someone might grant that a circumstance has these features, yet deny th…
Exemplifying accumulation by dispossession: Mining and indigenous peoples in the philippines
Using a case study from the Philippines, this article applies David Harvey's theory of accumulation by dispossession to show how neoliberal policies enable mining corporations to locate, lay claim to, and develop mineral resources in formerly inaccessible areas, which for centuries have provided safe haven for indigenous peoples and their cultures. It explains why these factors are leading to an increase in armed conflict between military forces …
Freedom of Speech Acts? A Response to Langton
Suicide Bombings and Targeted Killings in (Counter-) Terror Games
This article develops sequential game models for key operational terrorist (how often to attack) and government (how often to execute targeted killings) decisions taken during a (counter-) terror campaign such as the second intifada. Key results include the following: The government initiates targeted killings when the marginal number of Israeli civilian lives saved from prevented terror attacks exceeds the marginal number of Palestinian civilian…
Mill on Liberty, Speech, and the Free Society
Philosophy & Public AffairsVolume 29, Issue 3 p. 276-309 Mill on Liberty, Speech, and the Free Society DANIEL JACOBSON, DANIEL JACOBSON DANIEL JACOBSON is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Franklin & Marshall College. His research interests are in moral philosophy, broadly construed; he has published on topics in aesthetics, ethical theory, moral psychology, philosophy of law, and political philosophy. He is a previous contributor to Philosoph…
Ecclesial opposition to nonferrous mining in Guatemala: Neoliberalism meets the church of the poor in a shattered society
Guatemala, a nation plagued by the legacy of its brutal 36‐year civil war, has, in recent years liberalized its mining law to encourage the entry of multinational mining corporations. These mining companies have included two Canadian companies, which have developed the two most prominent, and controversial, mining projects in Guatemala. Using the lens of political ecology to demonstrate how environmental analysis and policy can be reframed toward…
Mining amid armed conflict: Nonferrous metals mining in the Philippines
In recent years the government of the Philippines has attempted to accelerate the growth of the nation's economy by encouraging the extraction of its mineral resources by multinational corporations. The Philippines is also a nation beset by armed violence carried out by anti‐state groups. This article discusses how the presence, and activities, of these groups generate problems for a mining‐based development paradigm. The article examines: the li…
Design Considerations for Haptic and Auditory Map Interfaces
Communicating spatial information to the blind and visually impaired using maps and graphics presents many difficulties. Past research has offered advice to cartographers on topics such as tactile areal, point, and line symbolization; on perceptual problems related to dense linear features on tactile maps; and on the relationship between categorical data, measurement theory, and tactile discrimination. With this previous work as a foundation, we …
Ecclesial Opposition to Mining on Mindanao: Neoliberalism Encounters the Church of the Poor in the Land of Promise
In the developing world, environmental issues are often livelihood issues as the poor try to protect resources necessary for their subsistence. This paper examines the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church, on the Island of Mindanao, to neoliberal policies designed by the Philippine government to encourage nonferrous metals mining by multinational corporations. Mining is an activity with substantial potential for environmental degradation that …
Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS): Challenges of implementation in Churchill, Manitoba
Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) increasingly are utilized in geographic research, yet researchers rarely are provided with guidance on how to implement PPGIS in an appropriate and effective manner. This article reports on the process of research that explores responses to current and future local tourism development offered by a sample of residents using a modified PPGIS approach called ‘community action geographic inf…
Utilitarianism without Consequentialism: The Case of John Stuart Mill
This essay argues, flouting paradox, that Mill was a utilitarian but not a consequentialist. First, it contends that there is logical space for a view that deserves to be called utilitarian despite its rejection of consequentialism; second, that this logical space is, in fact, occupied by John Stuart Mill. The key to understanding Mill's unorthodox utilitarianism and the role it plays in his moral philosophy is to appreciate his sentimentalist me…
Crowdsourcing techniques for augmenting traditional accessibility maps with transitory obstacle information
One of the most scrutinized contemporary techniques for geospatial data collection and production is crowdsourcing. This inverts the traditional top-down geospatial data production and distribution methods by emphasizing on the participation of the end user or community. The technique has been shown to be particularly useful in the domain of accessibility mapping, where it can augment traditional mapping methods and systems by providing informati…
Ecclesial Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in the Philippines: Neoliberalism Encounters Liberation Theology
This paper discusses the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines to the efforts of that nation's government to attract foreign investment by mining corporations into the Philippi
The Origin of the Koasati Community of Louisiana
The American Novel and English Studies in South Africa: A Suggestion
Land and People: A Cultural Geography of Preindustrial New Jersey: Origins and Settlement Patterns
The Migrations and Changing Culture of the Alabama and Coushatta, 1700-1900
The Alabama and Coushatta Indians have been known to history since the De Solo Expedition (1539-1541 A.D.) and to prehistory since Mature Mississippian times (1200-1500 A.D.). This study focuses on cultural changes through time—from 1700 A.D. to 1900 A.D.—and postulates a reducing tradition, or an increasing simplification through loss of culture traits over the time frame. Both tribes passed from the Mature Mississippian to the Burial Urn Cultur…
Freedom of Speech Acts? A Response to Langton
Newberry exploratory slimhole: Drilling and testing
During July--November, 1995, Sandia National Laboratories, in cooperation with CE Exploration, drilled a 5,360 feet exploratory slimhole (3.895 inch diameter) in the Newberry Known Geothermal Resource Area (KGRA) near Bend, Oregon. This well was part of Sandia`s program to evaluate slimholes as a geothermal exploration tool. During and after drilling the authors performed numerous temperature logs, and at the completion of drilling attempted to p…
Sentiment and Value
The Moralistic Fallacy: On the 'Appropriateness' of Emotions
Philosophers often call emotions appropriate or inappropriate. What is meant by such talk? In one sense, explicated in this paper, to call an emotion appropriate is to say that the emotion is fitting: it accurately presents its object as having certain evaluative features. For instance, envy might be thought appropriate when one's rival has something good which one lacks. But someone might grant that a circumstance has these features, yet deny th…
Mill on Liberty, Speech, and the Free Society
Philosophy & Public AffairsVolume 29, Issue 3 p. 276-309 Mill on Liberty, Speech, and the Free Society DANIEL JACOBSON, DANIEL JACOBSON DANIEL JACOBSON is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Franklin & Marshall College. His research interests are in moral philosophy, broadly construed; he has published on topics in aesthetics, ethical theory, moral psychology, philosophy of law, and political philosophy. He is a previous contributor to Philosoph…
Design Considerations for Haptic and Auditory Map Interfaces
Communicating spatial information to the blind and visually impaired using maps and graphics presents many difficulties. Past research has offered advice to cartographers on topics such as tactile areal, point, and line symbolization; on perceptual problems related to dense linear features on tactile maps; and on the relationship between categorical data, measurement theory, and tactile discrimination. With this previous work as a foundation, we …
Ecclesial Opposition to Mining on Mindanao: Neoliberalism Encounters the Church of the Poor in the Land of Promise
In the developing world, environmental issues are often livelihood issues as the poor try to protect resources necessary for their subsistence. This paper examines the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church, on the Island of Mindanao, to neoliberal policies designed by the Philippine government to encourage nonferrous metals mining by multinational corporations. Mining is an activity with substantial potential for environmental degradation that …
Ecclesial Opposition to Nonferrous Metals Mining in the Philippines: Neoliberalism Encounters Liberation Theology
This paper discusses the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines to the efforts of that nation's government to attract foreign investment by mining corporations into the Philippi
Mining amid armed conflict: Nonferrous metals mining in the Philippines
In recent years the government of the Philippines has attempted to accelerate the growth of the nation's economy by encouraging the extraction of its mineral resources by multinational corporations. The Philippines is also a nation beset by armed violence carried out by anti‐state groups. This article discusses how the presence, and activities, of these groups generate problems for a mining‐based development paradigm. The article examines: the li…
Suicide Bombings and Targeted Killings in (Counter-) Terror Games
This article develops sequential game models for key operational terrorist (how often to attack) and government (how often to execute targeted killings) decisions taken during a (counter-) terror campaign such as the second intifada. Key results include the following: The government initiates targeted killings when the marginal number of Israeli civilian lives saved from prevented terror attacks exceeds the marginal number of Palestinian civilian…
Utilitarianism without Consequentialism: The Case of John Stuart Mill
This essay argues, flouting paradox, that Mill was a utilitarian but not a consequentialist. First, it contends that there is logical space for a view that deserves to be called utilitarian despite its rejection of consequentialism; second, that this logical space is, in fact, occupied by John Stuart Mill. The key to understanding Mill's unorthodox utilitarianism and the role it plays in his moral philosophy is to appreciate his sentimentalist me…
Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS): Challenges of implementation in Churchill, Manitoba
Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) increasingly are utilized in geographic research, yet researchers rarely are provided with guidance on how to implement PPGIS in an appropriate and effective manner. This article reports on the process of research that explores responses to current and future local tourism development offered by a sample of residents using a modified PPGIS approach called ‘community action geographic inf…
Ecclesial opposition to nonferrous mining in Guatemala: Neoliberalism meets the church of the poor in a shattered society
Guatemala, a nation plagued by the legacy of its brutal 36‐year civil war, has, in recent years liberalized its mining law to encourage the entry of multinational mining corporations. These mining companies have included two Canadian companies, which have developed the two most prominent, and controversial, mining projects in Guatemala. Using the lens of political ecology to demonstrate how environmental analysis and policy can be reframed toward…
The assessment of non visual maritime cognitive maps of a blind sailor: A case study
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. Nowadays, thanks to the accessibility of GPS, sighted people widely use electronic charts to navigate through different kinds of environments. In the maritime domain, it has considerably improved the precision of course control. In this domain, blind sailors can not make a compass bearing, however they are able to interact with multimodal electronic charts. Indeed, we conceived S…
The Roman Catholic Church: Committed to the poor in Guatemala
The coexistence of conservative and liberation perspectives within the Roman Catholic Church still causes disagreements. However, since Vatican II, the Catholic Church in Guatemala has established a commitment to act as a church of the poor. There is tension between Guatemala's elite and the Church, which has led to the murders of Church members and the issuance of death threats to others. Although the growth of evangelical movements has caused t…
Exemplifying accumulation by dispossession: Mining and indigenous peoples in the philippines
Using a case study from the Philippines, this article applies David Harvey's theory of accumulation by dispossession to show how neoliberal policies enable mining corporations to locate, lay claim to, and develop mineral resources in formerly inaccessible areas, which for centuries have provided safe haven for indigenous peoples and their cultures. It explains why these factors are leading to an increase in armed conflict between military forces …
Old poison in new security bottles: Contemporary immigration restriction and the detention regime
The state-led immigration laws of 2010 and 2011 are but the most recent examples of anti-immigrant activity which cycles throughout the United States’ history. This article addresses why particular states passed anti-immigration legislation and why all the policies center on criminal penalties and enhanced enforcement. We argue that partisan control and specific demographic changes in the context of increased national attention to immigration hel…
Crowdsourcing techniques for augmenting traditional accessibility maps with transitory obstacle information
One of the most scrutinized contemporary techniques for geospatial data collection and production is crowdsourcing. This inverts the traditional top-down geospatial data production and distribution methods by emphasizing on the participation of the end user or community. The technique has been shown to be particularly useful in the domain of accessibility mapping, where it can augment traditional mapping methods and systems by providing informati…
Moral Psychology and Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics
These nine original essays examine the moral and philosophical implications of developments in the science of ethics, the growing movement that seeks to use recent empirical findings to answer long-standing ethical questions. Efforts to make moral psychology a thoroughly empirical discipline have divided philosophers along methodological fault lines, isolating discussions that will profit more from intellectual exchange. This volume takes an even…
Mapping the location, design and decline of London's psychiatric asylums (1831–2012)
This research analyses the location of psychiatric hospitals, previously known as ‘mental asylums’ built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in London, UK. Twenty of the largest facilities are geo-referenced using a mixed-methods approach including the use of archival documents, historical Ordnance Survey mapping, and a variety of recent digital datasets. The hospital locations are plotted on Ordnance Survey© [2013. Retrieved July …
Quality Assessment and Accessibility Mapping in an Image-Based Geocrowdsourcing Testbed
Geocrowdsourcing is a significant new focus area in mapping for people with disabilities. It utilizes public data contributions that are difficult to capture with traditional mapping workflows. Along with the benefits of geocrowdsourcing are critical drawbacks, including reliability and accuracy. A geocrowdsourcing testbed has been designed to explore the dynamics of geocrowdsourcing and quality assessment and produce temporally relevant navigati…
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