William Thomas

Dados Biográficos

ID3753723
NOMEWilliam Thomas
PRENOMESWilliam
SOBRENOMEThomas
ASSINATURATHOMAS W
AFILIAÇÕESUnited Church of Christ
ORCID0000-0001-6969-3173
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TOTAL DE OBRAS68
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES45
TOTAL COMO AUTOR66
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1931
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H5

  • A probabilistic, question-based approach to additivity

    Open AccessWilliam C Thomas, William ThomasARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2026

    Many analyses of additive particles (e.g., too, also, either) have claimed that any such particle requires a contextually salient antecedent sentence that is a focus alternative of its prejacent or is a partial answer to the Question Under Discussion addressed by the prejacent. There is, however, a previously unstudied use — the argument-building use — which occurs without such an antecedent. This paper proposes an analysis of too that accounts f…

  • Addressing the widest answerable question

    Open AccessAshwini Deo, William Thomas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Semantics2025

    This paper offers a unified account of the English particle just that covers its exclusive, emphatic/intensifying, precisifying, unexplanatory, unelaborative, and counter-expectational uses. Drawing on an insight from another semantic domain, we claim that the chameleon-like behavior of just can be made sense of if we treat it as having a domain-widening function. The key proposal is as follows: the use of just indicates that the speaker is consi…

  • Economic impacts of maple syrup production potential in Kentucky

    Open AccessBobby Thapa, Thomas O Ochuodho et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2025Citada por: 1Referências: 1

  • Assessing the factors affecting maple syrup yield in the US and predicting production potential in Kentucky

    Open AccessBobby Thapa, Thomas O Ochuodho et al.ARTICLETrees Forests and People2024

    Maple syrup is an important part of the economy in various regions of the United States. Studies on maple syrup production potential mostly use climatic factors as determinants and, therefore, fail to account for non-climatic factors. In this study, we applied a stochastic production function framework to establish a relationship between maple syrup yield and a set of climatic (temperature and tapping season length) and non-climatic determining f…

  • Why we fight about science

    Open AccessWilliam ThomasARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2024

    The concept of ‘science’ occupies a distinctive place within our rhetorical inheritance. Tangential to science's actual practices and institutions, this rhetoric holds that science comprises an arsenal of techniques, or a pervasive mentality, that have broadly shaped and even defined modern society. Such notions have been the subject of more or less constant discussion for two or three centuries, with early critics of scientific thought targeting…

  • Social inferences from the use of just as an exclusive particle

    Open AccessWilliam C Thomas, William ThomasARTICLEProceedings of the Linguistic…2021

    Recent work has begun to investigate the interaction between semantics and social meaning. This study contributes to that line of inquiry by investigating how particular social meanings that are popularly believed to arise from the English discourse particle just are related to the conventional semantic meaning of just. In addition to proposing an inferential process by which the social meanings associated with just arise, this paper reports the …

  • The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay

    William A Thomas, William ThomasBOOKJournals of Thomas Babington…2021Citada por: 2

    Presents the candid diary of Thomas Macaulay, Victorian statesman, historian and author of "The History of England". This work shows how, spanning the period 1838 to 1859, the journal is the longest work from Macaulay's pen. It states that these unique manuscripts held at Trinity College, Cambridge, are most revealing of all his writings. Volume 4 includes entries from 5 December 1852–31 December 1856

  • Research and Development, Testing, and the Economics of Information, 1937-63

    William ThomasARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2020Citada por: 1Referências: 15

    American mathematicians' contributions to the engineering and production of equipment in World War II included the exploration of ways to improve choices between competing designs and maximize the value of experimental testing of prototypes. After the war, these contributions were extended, particularly at the RAND Corporation. Working on such matters, Kenneth Arrow took a keen interest in testing as a paradigm for information gathering in econom…

  • Travels to Tana and Persia, by Josafa Barbaro and Ambrogio Contarini

    Lord Stanley of Alderley, William Thomas et al.BOOKTravels to Tana and Persia, by…2017

    Translated from the Italian by William Thomas, Clerk of the Council to Edward VI, and by S. A. Roy, Esq., and Edited, with an Introduction, by Lord Stanley of Alderley. Originally bound together with 49b but separately paginated. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1873.

  • Scientists' Imagined Pasts and Historians' Appreciation of Scientific Thought

    William ThomasARTICLEIsis2017Citada por: 1Referências: 6

    Historians should heed Adrian Wilson’s call for deeper study of the “imagined pasts” of science, but they should avoid thinking of those pasts as corrupted versions of professional history. The past (and future) that historians of science have often imagined for themselves casts them in a heroic role within the history of science, destined to diagnose and dispel flaws in scientists’ broadly accepted ideas about the nature of their enterprise. Abi…

  • Rational Action

    William ThomasBOOKRational Action2015

    The evolution of a set of fields—including operations research and systems analysis—intended to improve policymaking and explore the nature of rational decision-making. During World War II, the Allied military forces faced severe problems integrating equipment, tactics, and logistics into successful combat operations. To help confront these problems, scientists and engineers developed new means of studying which equipment designs would best meet …

  • Rational Action

    William ThomasBOOKRational Action2015

  • Between Humanities and the Digital

    Alan Liu, Ian Bogost et al.BOOKBetween Humanities and the Digital2015

  • Bran fibers and satiety in women who do not exhibit restrained eating

    Open AccessRenee Korczak, Kaycie Lindeman et al.ARTICLEAppetite2014Citada por: 1Referências: 27

  • Decisions and Dynamics

    William ThomasARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2014Referências: 28

    This article examines certain issues in postwar economic theory and compares them with related issues in the nascent fields of cybernetics, industrial dynamics, and operations research. Because all these fields had close connections to MIT, the comparison provides an opportunity to assess to what degree a peculiar MIT "style" of economics, developed particularly by Paul Samuelson and Robert Solow, could be attributed to the MIT context, and to wh…

  • Operations Research vis-à-vis Management at Arthur D. Little and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1950s

    Open AccessWilliam ThomasARTICLEThe Business History Review2012Citada por: 1Referências: 28

    This article examines the establishment of the field of operations research (OR) at the Arthur D. Little consulting firm and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. OR advocates envisioned the field as a new kind of bureaucratic organ dedicated to general studies of business problems, staffed by trained scientists who could employ sophisticated methods if needed. The crux of their promotional strategy was to use their appreciation of general m…

  • Science for welfare and warfare

    Open AccessWilliam ThomasARTICLEThe Economic History Review2012

  • Effects of short-chain fructooligosaccharides on satiety responses in healthy men and women

    Open AccessJennifer R Hess, Jennifer Hess et al.ARTICLEAppetite2011Citada por: 6Referências: 39

  • Feasibility of measuring gastric emptying time, with a wireless motility device, after subjects consume fiber-matched liquid and solid breakfasts

    Open AccessHolly Willis, Holly J Willis et al.ARTICLEAppetite2011Referências: 19

  • Travels to Tana and Persia, and A Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the 15th and 16th Centuries

    Open AccessGiosofat Barbaro, Henry Edward John Stanley Baron Stanley et al.BOOKTravels to Tana and Persia2010

    The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume contains six narratives b…

  • The Epistemologies of Non-Forecasting Simulations, Part II

    Open AccessLambert Williams, William ThomasARTICLEScience in Context2009

    Argument We continue our analysis of modeling practices that focus more on qualitative understanding of system behavior than the attempt to provide sharp forecasts. The argument here is built around three episodes: the ambitious work of the Princeton Meteorological Project; the seemingly simple models of convection in weather systems by Edward Lorenz at MIT; and then finally analysis of the dripping faucet by Robert Shaw and the Dynamical Systems…

  • Utility and Democracy

    William ThomasARTICLEThe English Historical Review2008Citada por: 1

    It is well known that students of political theory divide into textualists and contextualists, into those who concentrate on the exposition and analysis of a classic text, such as Leviathan and Du Contrat Social, and do not look beyond it, and those who think that no text, however abstract, can properly be understood without a thorough understanding of the circumstances in which it was composed and the problems that its author ought consequently …

  • The heuristics of war

    Open AccessWilliam ThomasARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2007Citada por: 5

    This paper explores the relationship between operations research (OR) as practised during the Second World War and the claims of many of its proponents that it constituted an application of scientific method. It begins with an examination of the pre-war work of two of the most notable leaders in wartime OR, the British experimental physicist Patrick Blackett and the American theoretical physicist Philip Morse. Despite differences in their scienti…

  • Herbert A. Simon

    William ThomasARTICLETechnology and Culture2006

    Reviewed by William Thomas Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America. By Hunter Crowther-Heyck. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. xi+420. $49.95. Hunter Crowther-Heyck's biography of Herbert Simon arrives with perfect timing. A welcome historiographical current is now bringing to light long-neglected links among the histories of technology, science, and economics. In particular, Philip Mirowski, beginning with hi…

  • The Pilgrim

    William Thomas, James Anthony Froude