R C Richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 986822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R C Richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | R C |
| FAMILY NAME | Richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3850-3709 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Perceptions of a Monarchy without a King: Reactions to Oliver Cromwell’s Power by Benjamin Woodford
Reviewed by: Perceptions of a Monarchy without a King: Reactions to Oliver Cromwell’s Power by Benjamin Woodford R.C. Richardson Woodford, Benjamin — Perceptions of a Monarchy without a King: Reactions to Oliver Cromwell’s Power. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. Pp. 240. Woodford’s book derives from his doctoral thesis and bears many of the hallmarks of that genre. It insistently lays claim to a niche in the subject are…
Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research
An analysis of two heuristic strategies for the development of mechanistic models, illustrated with historical examples from the life sciences. In Discovering Complexity, William Bechtel and Robert Richardson examine two heuristics that guided the development of mechanistic models in the life sciences: decomposition and localization. Drawing on historical cases from disciplines including cell biology, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics, they id…
Multiple realization and methodological pluralism
Autonomy and Multiple Realization
Multiple realization historically mandated the autonomy of psychology, and its principled irreducibility to neuroscience. Recently, multiple realization and its implications for the reducibility of psychology to neuroscience have been challenged. One challenge concerns the proper understanding of reduction. Another concerns whether multiple realization is as pervasive as is alleged. I focus on the latter question. I illustrate multiple realizatio…
Re-fighting the English Revolution: John Nalson (1637–1686) and the Frustrations of Late Seventeenth-Century English Historiography
The English Revolution of the mid-seventeenth century went on being re-fought and reinterpreted long after the original events were over. In the later part of the reign of Charles II, fuelled by the Exclusion Crisis and the Popish Plot and the early strivings of Whigs and Tories, histories of the Civil Wars, Interregnum and Restoration took on a new lease of life and gained added purpose and relevance. John Nalson (1637–1686) is firmly anchored i…
Chance and the Patterns of Drift: A Natural Experiment
Evolutionary models can explain the dynamics of populations, how genetic, genotypic, or phenotypic frequencies change with time. Models incorporating chance, or drift, predict specific patterns of change. These are illustrated using classic work on blood types by Cavalli-Sforza and his collaborators in the Parma Valley of Italy, in which the theoretically predicted patterns are exhibited in human populations. These data and the models display pro…
Emergence and Its Place in Nature: A Case Study of Biochemical Networks
Engineering Design and Adaptation
Reverse engineering is a matter of inferring adaptive function from structure. The utility of reverse engineering for evolutionary biology has been a matter of controversy. I offer a simple taxonomy of the uses of engineering design in assessing adaptation, with a variety of illustrations. The plausibility of applications of engineering design reflects the specific way the models are elaborated and derived
The Organism in Development
Developmental biology has resurfaced in recent years, often without a clearly central role for the organism. The organism is pulled in divergent directions: on the one hand, there is an important body of work that emphasizes the role of the gene in development, as executing and controlling embryological change; on the other hand, there are more theoretical approaches under which the organism disappears as little more than an instance for testing …
Natural and Artificial Complexity
Genetic regulatory networks are complex, involving tens or hundreds of genes and scores of proteins with varying dependencies and organizations. This invites the application of artificial techniques in coming to understand natural complexity. I describe two attempts to deploy artificial models in understanding natural complexity. The first abstracts from empirically established patterns, favoring random architectures and very general constraints,…
Short notices
Ronald Hut ton, The Rise and Fall of Merry England. The Ritual Year 1400–1700 (1994), xi + 306 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £17.95). Sean McConville, English Local Prisons 1860–1900, Next Only to Death (1995), 757 (Routledge, London, £125.00)
Critical Notice: Robert N. Brandon, Adaptation and Environment
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Sober on Brandon on Screening-Off and the Levels of Selection
Sober (1992) has recently evaluated Brandon's (1982, 1990; see also 1985, 1988) use of Salmon's (1971) concept of screening-off in the philosophy of biology. He critiques three particular issues, each of which will be considered in this discussion
Short notices
Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550–1640 (1991), xix + 369 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00). Margaret H. Darrow, Revolution in the House. Family, Class and Inheritance in Southern France, 1775–1825 (1989), xiv + 279 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, $39.50). R. S. Alexander, Bonapartistn and Revolutionary Tradition in France. The Federes of 1815 (1991), xii + 314 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00). Jo…
Short notices
Urs Bitterli, Cultures in Conflict: Encounters Between European and Non‐European Cultures, 1492–1800, translated by Ritchie Robertson (1989), 215 (Polity Press, Oxford, £25.00). Alice T. Friedman, House and Household in Elizabethan England: Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby Family (1989), xvi + 227 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, £24.95). David Morse, England's Time of Crisis from Shakespeare to Milton. A Cultural History (1989). vii + ‐391…
The “Tally Argument” and the Validation of Psychoanalysis
The classic charge against Freudian theory is that the therapeutic success of psychoanalysis can be explained without appeal to the mechanisms of repression and insight. Whatever therapeutic success psychoanalysis might enjoy would then provide no support for the diagnostic claim that psychological disorders are due to repressed desires or for the therapeutic claim that the gains in psychoanalysis are due to insight into repressed causes. Adolf G…
Short notices
John Morgan, Godly Learning. Puritan Attitudes towards Reason, Learning and Education 1560–1640 (1986), x + 366 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35). Sarah Pearson, Rural Houses of the Lancashire Pennines, 1560–1760, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Supplementary Series, 10 (1985), x + 202 (HMSO, £16.95). Irvine Loudon, Medical Care and the General Practitioner 1750–1850 (1986), xvi + 354 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, …
Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London
The Rise of the Barristers: A Social History of the English Bar, 1590-1640
Popular Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
The English Family, 1450-1700
The Puritan Gentry: The Great Puritan Families of Early Stuart England
Family Life in the Seventeenth Century: The Verneys of Claydon House
Biology and Ideology: The Interpenetration of Science and Values
The mutual influence of science and values in biology is exhibited in several cases from the biological literature. It is argued in a number of cases, from R. A. Fisher's argument for the optimality of a 50:50 sex ratio to A. Jensen's defense of a genetic basis for intelligence, and including work on the evolution of sexual dimorphism and muted aggression, that the credence accorded the views is disproportionate with their theoretical and empiric…
Marriage Settlements, 1601-1740: The Adoption of the Strict Settlement
Functionalism and Reductionism
It is here argued that functionalist constraints on psychology do not preclude the applicability of classic forms of reduction and, therefore, do not support claims to a principled, or de jure , autonomy of psychology. In Part I , after isolating one minimal restriction any functionalist theory must impose on its categories, it is shown that any functionalism imposing an additional constraint of de facto autonomy must also be committed to a pure …
Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800
To make available again important yet little-known social documents at present out of print is an excellent service to historians and others.Caliban Books are doing just that.They now present four new titles to their growing series of facsimile reprints.Joseph Lawson (1821
Emergence and Its Place in Nature: A Case Study of Biochemical Networks
Biology and Ideology: The Interpenetration of Science and Values
The mutual influence of science and values in biology is exhibited in several cases from the biological literature. It is argued in a number of cases, from R. A. Fisher's argument for the optimality of a 50:50 sex ratio to A. Jensen's defense of a genetic basis for intelligence, and including work on the evolution of sexual dimorphism and muted aggression, that the credence accorded the views is disproportionate with their theoretical and empiric…
Autonomy and Multiple Realization
Multiple realization historically mandated the autonomy of psychology, and its principled irreducibility to neuroscience. Recently, multiple realization and its implications for the reducibility of psychology to neuroscience have been challenged. One challenge concerns the proper understanding of reduction. Another concerns whether multiple realization is as pervasive as is alleged. I focus on the latter question. I illustrate multiple realizatio…
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
Chance and the Patterns of Drift: A Natural Experiment
Evolutionary models can explain the dynamics of populations, how genetic, genotypic, or phenotypic frequencies change with time. Models incorporating chance, or drift, predict specific patterns of change. These are illustrated using classic work on blood types by Cavalli-Sforza and his collaborators in the Parma Valley of Italy, in which the theoretically predicted patterns are exhibited in human populations. These data and the models display pro…
The Organism in Development
Developmental biology has resurfaced in recent years, often without a clearly central role for the organism. The organism is pulled in divergent directions: on the one hand, there is an important body of work that emphasizes the role of the gene in development, as executing and controlling embryological change; on the other hand, there are more theoretical approaches under which the organism disappears as little more than an instance for testing …
Multiple realization and methodological pluralism
Re-fighting the English Revolution: John Nalson (1637–1686) and the Frustrations of Late Seventeenth-Century English Historiography
The English Revolution of the mid-seventeenth century went on being re-fought and reinterpreted long after the original events were over. In the later part of the reign of Charles II, fuelled by the Exclusion Crisis and the Popish Plot and the early strivings of Whigs and Tories, histories of the Civil Wars, Interregnum and Restoration took on a new lease of life and gained added purpose and relevance. John Nalson (1637–1686) is firmly anchored i…
Sober on Brandon on Screening-Off and the Levels of Selection
Sober (1992) has recently evaluated Brandon's (1982, 1990; see also 1985, 1988) use of Salmon's (1971) concept of screening-off in the philosophy of biology. He critiques three particular issues, each of which will be considered in this discussion
The “Tally Argument” and the Validation of Psychoanalysis
The classic charge against Freudian theory is that the therapeutic success of psychoanalysis can be explained without appeal to the mechanisms of repression and insight. Whatever therapeutic success psychoanalysis might enjoy would then provide no support for the diagnostic claim that psychological disorders are due to repressed desires or for the therapeutic claim that the gains in psychoanalysis are due to insight into repressed causes. Adolf G…
Controlling Factors in Economic Development
The Locomotive Engineer, 1863-1963: A Century of Railway Labor Relations and Work Rules
Journal Article The Locomotive Engineer, 1863–1963: A Century of Railway Labor Relations and Work Rules. By Reed C. Richardson. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1963. 456 pp. Figures, notes, glossary, and bibliography. $8.00.) Get access Irene D. Neu Irene D. Neu Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 51, Issue 3, December 1964, Pages 509–510, https:…
The Locomotive Engineer, 1863-1963: A Century of Railway Labor Relations and Work Rules
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
A County Community in Peace and War: Sussex, 1600-60
Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800
To make available again important yet little-known social documents at present out of print is an excellent service to historians and others.Caliban Books are doing just that.They now present four new titles to their growing series of facsimile reprints.Joseph Lawson (1821
Rights of Union Members and the Government
Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad, 1852-1900: The Evolution of an Industrial Environment
Functionalism and Reductionism
It is here argued that functionalist constraints on psychology do not preclude the applicability of classic forms of reduction and, therefore, do not support claims to a principled, or de jure , autonomy of psychology. In Part I , after isolating one minimal restriction any functionalist theory must impose on its categories, it is shown that any functionalism imposing an additional constraint of de facto autonomy must also be committed to a pure …
Collective Bargaining-The Search for Solutions
The Lancashire Gentry and the Great Rebellion, 1640-60
Short notices
Claudia Ulbrich, Leibherrschaft am Oberrhein im Spatmittelalter (Veröffentlichungen des Max‐Planck‐Instituts für Geschichte 58) (1979), 327 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, DM 70). (Serfdom on the Upper Rhine in the Later Middle Ages) Mervyn James, English Politics and the Concept of Honour, 1485–1642 (1978), 92 (Oxford, Past and Present, Supplement 3, £1.75). Walter Makey, The Church of the Covenant, 1637–1651: Revolution and Social Change in…
Short notices
Edith Ennen, The Medieval Town (1979), 287 (North Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Dfl. 85.00). Translation by Natalie Fryde of Die europäische Stadt des Mittelalters (Gottingen, 1972). J. Michael Hittle, The Service City: State and Townsmen in Russia, 1600–1800 (1979), xii+297 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, £10.50). John T. Evans, Seventeenth‐Century Norwich. Politics, Religion and Government, 1620–1690 (1980), xii…
The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw
Biology and Ideology: The Interpenetration of Science and Values
The mutual influence of science and values in biology is exhibited in several cases from the biological literature. It is argued in a number of cases, from R. A. Fisher's argument for the optimality of a 50:50 sex ratio to A. Jensen's defense of a genetic basis for intelligence, and including work on the evolution of sexual dimorphism and muted aggression, that the credence accorded the views is disproportionate with their theoretical and empiric…
Marriage Settlements, 1601-1740: The Adoption of the Strict Settlement
The English Family, 1450-1700
The Puritan Gentry: The Great Puritan Families of Early Stuart England
Family Life in the Seventeenth Century: The Verneys of Claydon House
Popular Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
Short notices
John Morgan, Godly Learning. Puritan Attitudes towards Reason, Learning and Education 1560–1640 (1986), x + 366 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35). Sarah Pearson, Rural Houses of the Lancashire Pennines, 1560–1760, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Supplementary Series, 10 (1985), x + 202 (HMSO, £16.95). Irvine Loudon, Medical Care and the General Practitioner 1750–1850 (1986), xvi + 354 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, …
Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London
The Rise of the Barristers: A Social History of the English Bar, 1590-1640
Short notices
Urs Bitterli, Cultures in Conflict: Encounters Between European and Non‐European Cultures, 1492–1800, translated by Ritchie Robertson (1989), 215 (Polity Press, Oxford, £25.00). Alice T. Friedman, House and Household in Elizabethan England: Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby Family (1989), xvi + 227 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, £24.95). David Morse, England's Time of Crisis from Shakespeare to Milton. A Cultural History (1989). vii + ‐391…
The “Tally Argument” and the Validation of Psychoanalysis
The classic charge against Freudian theory is that the therapeutic success of psychoanalysis can be explained without appeal to the mechanisms of repression and insight. Whatever therapeutic success psychoanalysis might enjoy would then provide no support for the diagnostic claim that psychological disorders are due to repressed desires or for the therapeutic claim that the gains in psychoanalysis are due to insight into repressed causes. Adolf G…
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