Andrew Sneddon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 145015 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrew Sneddon |
| PRENOMES | Andrew |
| SOBRENOME | Sneddon |
| ASSINATURA | SNEDDON A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8013-6722 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Doing and allowing, removing barriers
The devil’s in the detail
Towards a theory of offense
We are all familiar with claims about being offended. There is reason to think that taking offense is particularly characteristic of the moral psychology of our times. When someone claims offense, others are supposed to take notice. This suffices to make offense a topic of philosophical and practical interest. However, we lack a persuasive account of the nature of offense. The present partial theory of offense portrays typical offense experiences…
Roundtable
In March and September of 1711, in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland’s last witch trials took place. Eighteen-year-old educated gentlewoman Mary Dunbar accused eight Presbyterian women and one man from Islandmagee and the surrounding areas of using witchcraft to attack her in spectral or spirit form and to summon demons to possess her body. The women were tried on 31 March 1711 at the Spring Session of Carrickfergus County Assize Court. Despi…
A theory of advice
Creative” Microhistories, Difficult Heritage, And “Dark” Public History
This article charts a decade-long project on the trial of the Islandmagee witches in County Antrim (Northern Ireland) in 1711. The project comprised three overlapping and connected phases that negotiated a pathway between researching the history of the trial, its interpretative representation in public discourse, and finding impactful ways to bring this research to wider audiences. It demonstrates that creatively and carefully pitched, microhisto…
Dynamic heritage and static maps
Developers, the courts and consent agencies are struggling to come to terms with Indigenous heritage places that embody evolving heritage values – places that some anthropologists describe by reference to a process of ‘re-inscription’. In an attempt to predict how the heritage profession will respond to these developments, this article looks back at a comparable case study that involved a ‘re-inscribed’ Indigenous landscape in NSW. It concludes t…
Cultural Heritage Management and Poverty
Indeterminacy of identity and advance directives for death after dementia
Why do ethicists eat their greens
Eric Schwitzgebel, Fiery Cushman, and Joshua Rust have conducted a series of studies of the thought and behavior of professional ethicists. They have found no evidence that ethical reflection yields distinctive improvements in behavior. This work has been done on English-speaking ethicists. Philipp Schönegger and Johannes Wagner (2019) replicated one study with German-speaking professors. Their results are almost the same, except for the finding …
An Analog from the Prehistoric Bronze Age Site of Alambra Mouttes (Cyprus) for Adornments on the Enigmatic “Vounous Bowl”
The “Vounous Bowl” (ca. 2025–1850 b.c.e.) is a prehistoric Bronze Age vessel from the cemetery at Bellapais Vounous on the northern coast of Cyprus, modeled to depict what is commonly interpreted as people engaged in ritual activities in front of a shrine. The vessel has long intrigued archaeologists working in Cyprus, partly because unambiguous evidence for religious structures and paraphernalia has eluded them in the archaeological record. Howe…
Witchcraft Belief, Representation and Memory in Modern Ireland
This micro study of Islandmagee, Co. Antrim, the site of Ireland’s last witch trial in 1711, offers new insight into the understudied area of modern Irish witchcraft. It suggests that popular belief in witchcraft continued in Ireland up until the twentieth century and was shaped at a local level by the social memory of historic trials transmitted culturally via oral tradition and informal ‘dark heritage’ sites. In the nineteenth and twentieth cen…
Select document
This article examines the sole extant and complete set of signed witness statements for an Irish witchcraft trial. These testimonies were given at Florence Newton's trial for witchcraft at Cork assizes in September 1661, and were signed by the presiding judge, Sir William Aston. The Aston manuscript has been annotated and transcribed in its full, original form for the first time, providing historians with a unique document with which to explore o…
No Hands, No Paradox
Archaeological geophysical survey of a Prehistoric Bronze Age site in Cyprus (Alambra Mouttes)-applications and limitations
Medicine, belief, witchcraft and demonic possession in late seventeenth-century Ulster
Ireland's only published witchcraft pamphlet, written by Daniel Higgs, The Wonderful and True Relation of the Bewitching of a Young Girle in Ireland, What Ways she was Tormented, and a Receipt of the Ointment that she was Cured with (1699), works within the confines of late seventeenth-century demonology, while upholding the patriarchy of the fledgling Protestant Ascendancy. More importantly, it provides rare insight into early modern Protestant …
Revisiting Alambra Mouttes
Alambra Mouttes is the site of a Prehistoric Bronze Age settlement in Cyprus. Excavation and survey in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in a reconstruction of the approximate boundaries and layout of the ancient settlement. Since 2012 geophysical survey and excavation have located a number of previously unidentified habitation areas while significantly increasing our knowledge of the site’s spatial configuration. Armed with these new data it is possi…
Symbolic Value
English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553–1829
Witchcraft Belief and Trials in Early Modern Ireland
This article explores witchcraft belief and trials in Ireland from just before the passing of the Irish witchcraft Act of 1586 up until the last prosecution for witchcraft at Carrickfergus Assizes in 1711 of the 'Islandmagee witches'. It suggests that the specific witchcraft beliefs of Ireland's main religious and ethnic groups, coupled with the actions of the Presbyterian church and the Irish judiciary, kept prosecutions rates for witchcraft low…
State intervention and provincial health care
The eighteenth century, a period when pain, suffering and illness was an ‘omnipresent threat’, saw medicine became more institutionally-based, increasingly state-funded, and wedded to a more scientific and analytical approach to disease. Voluntary hospitals, county infirmaries, medical supply dispensaries for the poor, the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and various medical guilds, schools and societies, were established or grew in imp…
A New Kantian Response to Maxim-Fiddling
There has long been a suspicion that Kant's test for the universalizability of maxims can be easily subverted: instead of risking failing the test, design your maxim for any action whatsoever in a manner guaranteed to pass. This is the problem of maxim-fiddling. The present discussion of this problem has two theses: 1] That extant approaches to maxim-fiddling are not satisfactory; 2] That a satisfactory response to maxim-fiddling can be articulat…
Thick Concepts and Holism about Reasons
Normative Ethics and the Prospects of an Empirical Contribution to Assessment of Moral Disagreement and Moral Realism
Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660–1739)
In recent years our understanding of the attempts of the Irish Protestant élite to convert and ‘civilise’ Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries has increased substantially. Some historians have examined the various campaigns to convert the largely Irish-speaking Catholic native population to Protestantism, through schools, the employment of Irish-speaking clergy and the publication of key religious texts in Irish. Others …
Revisiting Alambra Mouttes
Alambra Mouttes is the site of a Prehistoric Bronze Age settlement in Cyprus. Excavation and survey in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in a reconstruction of the approximate boundaries and layout of the ancient settlement. Since 2012 geophysical survey and excavation have located a number of previously unidentified habitation areas while significantly increasing our knowledge of the site’s spatial configuration. Armed with these new data it is possi…
Seeing Slums Through Rose-Coloured Glasses
In recent years there has been a tendency in some quarters to use the archaeological record uncritically to argue for a level of comfort and disposable wealth in nineteenth century Australian slums that rarely, if ever, existed there. The Mountain Street excavation, in what was once the Blackwattle Creek slum but which is now the fashionable inner-Sydney suburb of Ultimo, has demonstrated that site formation processes can seriously distort our pe…
Naturalistic Study of Culture
In Explaining Culture (1996), Dan Sperber argues for the naturalization of anthropology through conjunction with cognitive psychology. Culture is to be explained in terms of the production and spread of representations. I charge Sperber with two errors. First, his view of culture, given in terms of thoughts natives have about their social settings, is too inert. By contrast, to participate in a culture is to do things as much as it is to have tho…
Witchcraft Belief and Trials in Early Modern Ireland
This article explores witchcraft belief and trials in Ireland from just before the passing of the Irish witchcraft Act of 1586 up until the last prosecution for witchcraft at Carrickfergus Assizes in 1711 of the 'Islandmagee witches'. It suggests that the specific witchcraft beliefs of Ireland's main religious and ethnic groups, coupled with the actions of the Presbyterian church and the Irish judiciary, kept prosecutions rates for witchcraft low…
Down Little Lon
Archaeological geophysical survey of a Prehistoric Bronze Age site in Cyprus (Alambra Mouttes)-applications and limitations
Dynamic heritage and static maps
Developers, the courts and consent agencies are struggling to come to terms with Indigenous heritage places that embody evolving heritage values – places that some anthropologists describe by reference to a process of ‘re-inscription’. In an attempt to predict how the heritage profession will respond to these developments, this article looks back at a comparable case study that involved a ‘re-inscribed’ Indigenous landscape in NSW. It concludes t…
Medicine, belief, witchcraft and demonic possession in late seventeenth-century Ulster
Ireland's only published witchcraft pamphlet, written by Daniel Higgs, The Wonderful and True Relation of the Bewitching of a Young Girle in Ireland, What Ways she was Tormented, and a Receipt of the Ointment that she was Cured with (1699), works within the confines of late seventeenth-century demonology, while upholding the patriarchy of the fledgling Protestant Ascendancy. More importantly, it provides rare insight into early modern Protestant …
Considering Causalisms
Depuis 1963, le causalisme a été l'approche dominante en théorie de l'action. Il est possible, cependant, de distinguer diverses sortes de causalisme. La version dominante, que j'appelle CTA, essaie de trouver une analyse causale de l'action. Une version plus restreinte - le causalismeR- se montre récalcitrante à ce genre d'entreprise et se contente d'essayer d'expliquer en quel sens on peut traiter comme causales les explications par les raisons…
Witchcraft Belief, Representation and Memory in Modern Ireland
This micro study of Islandmagee, Co. Antrim, the site of Ireland’s last witch trial in 1711, offers new insight into the understudied area of modern Irish witchcraft. It suggests that popular belief in witchcraft continued in Ireland up until the twentieth century and was shaped at a local level by the social memory of historic trials transmitted culturally via oral tradition and informal ‘dark heritage’ sites. In the nineteenth and twentieth cen…
Select document
This article examines the sole extant and complete set of signed witness statements for an Irish witchcraft trial. These testimonies were given at Florence Newton's trial for witchcraft at Cork assizes in September 1661, and were signed by the presiding judge, Sir William Aston. The Aston manuscript has been annotated and transcribed in its full, original form for the first time, providing historians with a unique document with which to explore o…
English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553–1829
Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660–1739)
In recent years our understanding of the attempts of the Irish Protestant élite to convert and ‘civilise’ Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries has increased substantially. Some historians have examined the various campaigns to convert the largely Irish-speaking Catholic native population to Protestantism, through schools, the employment of Irish-speaking clergy and the publication of key religious texts in Irish. Others …
Taking Empirically Minded Moral Philosophy Seriously
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What's Wrong with Selling Yourself into Slavery? Paternalism and Deep Autonomy
Such thinkers as John Stuart Mill, Gerald Dworkin, and Richard Doerflinger have appealed to the value of freedom to explain both what is wrong with slavery and what is wrong with selling oneself into slavery. Practical ethicists, including Dworkin and Doerflinger, sometimes use selling oneself into slavery in analogies intended to illustrate justifiable forms of paternalism. I argue that these thinkers have misunderstood the moral problem with sl…
Considering Causalisms
Depuis 1963, le causalisme a été l'approche dominante en théorie de l'action. Il est possible, cependant, de distinguer diverses sortes de causalisme. La version dominante, que j'appelle CTA, essaie de trouver une analyse causale de l'action. Une version plus restreinte - le causalismeR- se montre récalcitrante à ce genre d'entreprise et se contente d'essayer d'expliquer en quel sens on peut traiter comme causales les explications par les raisons…
Taking Empirically Minded Moral Philosophy Seriously
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Feeling Utilitarian
Michael Stocker and Bernard Williams are recent proponents of the influential objection against utilitarianism that it leads to important forms of alienation. The famous response is that such objections are mistaken. The objections picture agents being motivated by the principle of utility, but, e.g., Peter Railton argues we should see this principle as purely normative – agents can be motivated any way they like and still be ‘objective’ conseque…
Interpreting Sperber
In ‘Naturalistic Study of Culture’ (2003), I criticized the account of the explanation of culture that Dan Sperber offers in Explaining Culture(1996). I argued that Sperber unduly overemphasized the explicit propositional, or propositionally expressible, beliefs of native members of cultures to be explained. The result was a neglect of the importance of skills and overt activities in the constitution of a culture, and of the tacitly represented k…
Naturalistic Study of Culture
In Explaining Culture (1996), Dan Sperber argues for the naturalization of anthropology through conjunction with cognitive psychology. Culture is to be explained in terms of the production and spread of representations. I charge Sperber with two errors. First, his view of culture, given in terms of thoughts natives have about their social settings, is too inert. By contrast, to participate in a culture is to do things as much as it is to have tho…
Action
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Seeing Slums Through Rose-Coloured Glasses
In recent years there has been a tendency in some quarters to use the archaeological record uncritically to argue for a level of comfort and disposable wealth in nineteenth century Australian slums that rarely, if ever, existed there. The Mountain Street excavation, in what was once the Blackwattle Creek slum but which is now the fashionable inner-Sydney suburb of Ultimo, has demonstrated that site formation processes can seriously distort our pe…
Down Little Lon
Action and Responsibility
What makes an event count as an action? Typical answers appeal to the way in which the event was produced: e.g., perhaps an arm movement is an action when caused by mental states (in particular ways), but not when caused in other ways. Andrew Sneddon argues that this type of answer, which he calls "productionism", is methodologically and substantially mistaken. In particular, productionist answers to this question tend to be either individualisti…
Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1660–1739)
In recent years our understanding of the attempts of the Irish Protestant élite to convert and ‘civilise’ Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries has increased substantially. Some historians have examined the various campaigns to convert the largely Irish-speaking Catholic native population to Protestantism, through schools, the employment of Irish-speaking clergy and the publication of key religious texts in Irish. Others …
Normative Ethics and the Prospects of an Empirical Contribution to Assessment of Moral Disagreement and Moral Realism
Thick Concepts and Holism about Reasons
A New Kantian Response to Maxim-Fiddling
There has long been a suspicion that Kant's test for the universalizability of maxims can be easily subverted: instead of risking failing the test, design your maxim for any action whatsoever in a manner guaranteed to pass. This is the problem of maxim-fiddling. The present discussion of this problem has two theses: 1] That extant approaches to maxim-fiddling are not satisfactory; 2] That a satisfactory response to maxim-fiddling can be articulat…
Witchcraft Belief and Trials in Early Modern Ireland
This article explores witchcraft belief and trials in Ireland from just before the passing of the Irish witchcraft Act of 1586 up until the last prosecution for witchcraft at Carrickfergus Assizes in 1711 of the 'Islandmagee witches'. It suggests that the specific witchcraft beliefs of Ireland's main religious and ethnic groups, coupled with the actions of the Presbyterian church and the Irish judiciary, kept prosecutions rates for witchcraft low…
State intervention and provincial health care
The eighteenth century, a period when pain, suffering and illness was an ‘omnipresent threat’, saw medicine became more institutionally-based, increasingly state-funded, and wedded to a more scientific and analytical approach to disease. Voluntary hospitals, county infirmaries, medical supply dispensaries for the poor, the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and various medical guilds, schools and societies, were established or grew in imp…
English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553–1829
Symbolic Value
Medicine, belief, witchcraft and demonic possession in late seventeenth-century Ulster
Ireland's only published witchcraft pamphlet, written by Daniel Higgs, The Wonderful and True Relation of the Bewitching of a Young Girle in Ireland, What Ways she was Tormented, and a Receipt of the Ointment that she was Cured with (1699), works within the confines of late seventeenth-century demonology, while upholding the patriarchy of the fledgling Protestant Ascendancy. More importantly, it provides rare insight into early modern Protestant …
Revisiting Alambra Mouttes
Alambra Mouttes is the site of a Prehistoric Bronze Age settlement in Cyprus. Excavation and survey in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in a reconstruction of the approximate boundaries and layout of the ancient settlement. Since 2012 geophysical survey and excavation have located a number of previously unidentified habitation areas while significantly increasing our knowledge of the site’s spatial configuration. Armed with these new data it is possi…
No Hands, No Paradox
Archaeological geophysical survey of a Prehistoric Bronze Age site in Cyprus (Alambra Mouttes)-applications and limitations
An Analog from the Prehistoric Bronze Age Site of Alambra Mouttes (Cyprus) for Adornments on the Enigmatic “Vounous Bowl”
The “Vounous Bowl” (ca. 2025–1850 b.c.e.) is a prehistoric Bronze Age vessel from the cemetery at Bellapais Vounous on the northern coast of Cyprus, modeled to depict what is commonly interpreted as people engaged in ritual activities in front of a shrine. The vessel has long intrigued archaeologists working in Cyprus, partly because unambiguous evidence for religious structures and paraphernalia has eluded them in the archaeological record. Howe…
Witchcraft Belief, Representation and Memory in Modern Ireland
This micro study of Islandmagee, Co. Antrim, the site of Ireland’s last witch trial in 1711, offers new insight into the understudied area of modern Irish witchcraft. It suggests that popular belief in witchcraft continued in Ireland up until the twentieth century and was shaped at a local level by the social memory of historic trials transmitted culturally via oral tradition and informal ‘dark heritage’ sites. In the nineteenth and twentieth cen…
Select document
This article examines the sole extant and complete set of signed witness statements for an Irish witchcraft trial. These testimonies were given at Florence Newton's trial for witchcraft at Cork assizes in September 1661, and were signed by the presiding judge, Sir William Aston. The Aston manuscript has been annotated and transcribed in its full, original form for the first time, providing historians with a unique document with which to explore o…
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