Richard A Watson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 75972 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard A Watson |
| NOMBRES | Richard A |
| APELLIDO | Watson |
| FIRMA | WATSON R A |
| AFILIACIONES | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2521-8255 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1956 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Can liberalised electricity markets deliver on climate change and energy poverty? Evidence from community projects in Great Britain
This paper reports on tensions between decarbonisation and energy poverty priorities in Great Britain’s liberalised electricity markets. Switching electricity suppliers in this market can result in significant benefits for those on bad deals. Further benefits are determined by the regulator. However, many of the energy poor lack the capabilities to switch and access these benefits. Community organisations play an important role in providing such …
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The Journal of the History of Philosophy
The Journal of the History of Philosophy: What It All Means Richard A. Watson (bio) The Study of the History of Philosophy as an independent discipline to exhibit and explicate philosophical systems as their originators meant them to be understood is less than one hundred years old. On the other hand, philosophers from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages to Bertrand Russell and Richard Rorty have represented the systems of their predecess…
Eloge
What is the History of Philosophy and Why is it Important
The advent of the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Journal of the History of Philosophy set me to thinking again about these old disputed questions. It seems obvious that what is unique to the history of philosophy is that it is history. It is specifically history of philosophical positions, principles, and arguments with no restrictions concerning who held them where or when, or what they are. The history of philosophy as history, the…
The Ostrich Factor
The proxemiotics of fame and totemic violence
(1997). The proxemiotics of fame and totemic violence: Projective sociology extrapolates a (hopefully mistaken) trend in pop music. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 21, Cartographies of Sound, Noise, and Music at Century' End, pp. 137-151
Murray Bookchin. Which Way for the Ecology Movement
Reconstructing Prehistory
Presidential Vetoes and Public Policy
Journal Article Presidential Vetoes and Public Policy. By Richard A. Watson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. xiv, 212 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-7006-0620-3.) Get access Paul Brace Paul Brace Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Page 1363, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081583 Published: 01 December 199…
Shadow History in Philosophy
Misanthropy, Humanity, and the Eco-Warriors
Archaeology after Structuralism
On Scepticism, Philosophy, and Archaeological Science
What the New Archaeology Has Accomplished [and Comments and Reply]
Reading Material Culture
George Bradford
Ozymandias, King of Kings
InRe-Constructing Archaeology(1987a) andSocial TheoryandArchaeology(1987b), Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley argue for an antiscience radical archaeology as critique. They use deconstructionist sceptical arguments to conclude that there is no objective past and that our representations of the past are only texts that we produce on the basis of our sociopolitical standpoints. In effect, they contend that there is no objective world, that the …
Jeremy Rifkin
The Presidential Veto
The Sceptical Mode in Modern Philosophy
The President's Veto Power
Drawing upon experiences with legislatively dominated government at the state and national levels in the post-Revolution period, the Founders granted the president the power to veto bills passed by Congress. An analysis of all vetoes cast by modern presidents in office from 1933 to 1981, beginning with Franklin Roosevelt and ending with Jimmy Carter, indicates that Roosevelt used the power most frequently. If, however, one focuses on public bills…
The Fate of the Earth
A Note on Deep Ecology
A Critique of Anti-Anthropocentric Biocentrism
Ozymandias, King of Kings
InRe-Constructing Archaeology(1987a) andSocial TheoryandArchaeology(1987b), Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley argue for an antiscience radical archaeology as critique. They use deconstructionist sceptical arguments to conclude that there is no objective past and that our representations of the past are only texts that we produce on the basis of our sociopolitical standpoints. In effect, they contend that there is no objective world, that the …
Why Exceptions? The Logic of Cross-Cultural Analysis [and Comments and Reply]
This paper discusses the factors causing exceptions to rules in the social sciences in general and in social anthropology in particular. Exceptions may occur through defective classification by ethnologists. For example, the ethnologist may define the phenomena under consideration poorly. The importance of using operational definitions must therefore be stressed. He may class phenomena in the same category without making sure that their frequency…
What the New Archaeology Has Accomplished [and Comments and Reply]
Reading Material Culture
Inference in Archaeology
The science of archaeology is based on a multi-leveled interdisciplinary system of descriptions, laws, and explanations. Archaeologists try to provide systemic descriptions and to confirm hypotheses about past social structures on the assumption that they are represented by selected parts of extant material remains. Inferences are about and based on processes and relations among social structure, material culture, and its unaltered, altered, and …
Shadow History in Philosophy
On Scepticism, Philosophy, and Archaeological Science
The 'new archeology' of the 1960s
In the United States, prehistoric archeologyas distinct from Classical Archaeology-has been taught primarily in Departments of Anthropology. A predictable outcome of this is that students so trained have attempted to give archeology-often minimally characterized as mere excavation technique-a strong anthropological orientation. This movement culminated in the 1960s. The following brief review of books published in that decade that illustrate the …
The Tariff Revolution
A Critique of Anti-Anthropocentric Biocentrism
Man and Nature
The President's Veto Power
Drawing upon experiences with legislatively dominated government at the state and national levels in the post-Revolution period, the Founders granted the president the power to veto bills passed by Congress. An analysis of all vetoes cast by modern presidents in office from 1933 to 1981, beginning with Franklin Roosevelt and ending with Jimmy Carter, indicates that Roosevelt used the power most frequently. If, however, one focuses on public bills…
Laws, Systems, Certainty, and Particularities
Murray Bookchin. Which Way for the Ecology Movement
Self-Consciousness and the Rights of Nonhuman Animals and Nature
Bar Politics, Judicial Selection and the Representation of Social Interests
In modern political systems, parties undertake the prime responsibility for nominating public office holders, while interest groups attempt to influence public policy by seeking access to the centers of governmental power. Yet recent developments in the selection of state judges have given a private interest group, the Bar, a role in choosing members of the Bench which, in essence, parallels that of traditional party organizations. A Plan develop…
The Tariff Revolution
Federalism v. Individual Rights
This study deals with one reputed value of federalism, its service in the cause of freedom or liberty (both terms are used interchangeably here to mean an immunity from arbitrary governmental action). In particular, I shall examine one aspect of that sort of freedom in our federal system, namely, the right against self-incrimination. The general case for the peculiar virtue of our constitutional system as a means of assuring such a right was summ…
The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics
The Breakdown of C i M phy " artes an eta sacs RICHARD A. WATSON WITHIN CARTESIANISMthere arose many problems deriving from conflicts between Cartesian principles. Inadequate attempts to solve these problems were crucial reasons for the breakdown of Cartesian metaphysics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The major difficulties derived from the acceptance of a dualism of substances seated in a system which included epistemolo…
Why Exceptions? The Logic of Cross-Cultural Analysis [and Comments and Reply]
This paper discusses the factors causing exceptions to rules in the social sciences in general and in social anthropology in particular. Exceptions may occur through defective classification by ethnologists. For example, the ethnologist may define the phenomena under consideration poorly. The importance of using operational definitions must therefore be stressed. He may class phenomena in the same category without making sure that their frequency…
Bar Politics, Judicial Selection and the Representation of Social Interests
In modern political systems, parties undertake the prime responsibility for nominating public office holders, while interest groups attempt to influence public policy by seeking access to the centers of governmental power. Yet recent developments in the selection of state judges have given a private interest group, the Bar, a role in choosing members of the Bench which, in essence, parallels that of traditional party organizations. A Plan develop…
Lawyer Attitudes on Judicial Selection
A study done in 1964 of lawyers practicing in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri, found that those with high social status in the legal profession, representing the most prestigeful clients, are more likely to support a Nonpartisan Court Plan developed by leaders of the bar for selecting judges than are attorneys with lesser professional status who handle the legal affairs of lower social classes. Partisan affiliation was shown to habe a limited…
The Politics of the Bench and the Bar
The Central Kentucky Karst
The principal karst region of south-central Kentucky encompasses an area of some two hundred square miles, including a segment of doline karst, the Sinkhole plain, and a karst plateau. The plateau lies mainly within Mammoth Cave National Park and is underlain by the Flint Ridge cave system, the largest known cave in the world, and by Mammoth Cave, the third largest. The plateau is ringed with a complex of vertical shafts that are an integral part…
Man and Nature
Underground wilderness
The concept of wilderness, as denned in the U.S.A. Wilderness Act of 1964, is analyzed and found to be ambiguous. This is an administrative advantage. The concept of underground wilderness is then introduced and found to be applicable under the terms of the Act. It is argued that the longest cave in the world, the Flint Ridge Cave System in Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, can and should be officially declared as wilderness by Congress even …
The 'new archeology' of the 1960s
In the United States, prehistoric archeologyas distinct from Classical Archaeology-has been taught primarily in Departments of Anthropology. A predictable outcome of this is that students so trained have attempted to give archeology-often minimally characterized as mere excavation technique-a strong anthropological orientation. This movement culminated in the 1960s. The following brief review of books published in that decade that illustrate the …
The Limits of World Order
The level of energy use determines the technological level, which in turn determines what can be used as resources. Technology also determines the scope of political organization. Attempts to form a world-government fail because high-energy technology today can provide only limited goods for the world's people. The nation-state is appropriate for competing at this stage; for it provides to some the means to obtain more than their share in a world…
Inference in Archaeology
The science of archaeology is based on a multi-leveled interdisciplinary system of descriptions, laws, and explanations. Archaeologists try to provide systemic descriptions and to confirm hypotheses about past social structures on the assumption that they are represented by selected parts of extant material remains. Inferences are about and based on processes and relations among social structure, material culture, and its unaltered, altered, and …
Laws, Systems, Certainty, and Particularities
New Wilderness Boundaries
Self-Consciousness and the Rights of Nonhuman Animals and Nature
Landform Development on Moraines of the Klutlan Glacier, Yukon Territory, Canada
The landform evolution of the Klutlan moraines is described and explained primarily with respect to processes that cause voids in which debris is deposited. Morainal deposits of different ages provide examples of landforms at different stages of development, so that continuous ideal evolutionary sequences can be inferred. Specific features are classified as those on material of the same depositional age that develop mostly in a vertical direction…
Promethean Ethics
The Limits of Low-Energy Society in a High-Energy World
Interests, Rights, and Self-Consciousness
A Critique of Anti-Anthropocentric Biocentrism
The Fate of the Earth
A Note on Deep Ecology
The Sceptical Mode in Modern Philosophy
The President's Veto Power
Drawing upon experiences with legislatively dominated government at the state and national levels in the post-Revolution period, the Founders granted the president the power to veto bills passed by Congress. An analysis of all vetoes cast by modern presidents in office from 1933 to 1981, beginning with Franklin Roosevelt and ending with Jimmy Carter, indicates that Roosevelt used the power most frequently. If, however, one focuses on public bills…
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