Brian Ellis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3866079 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Brian Ellis |
| PRENOMES | Brian |
| SOBRENOME | Ellis |
| ASSINATURA | ELLIS B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | La Trobe University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1957 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Walking Behaviour of Individuals with Intermittent Claudication Compared to Matched Controls in Different Locations
Individuals with intermittent claudication (IC) are less physically active than their peers, but how this varies with location is unclear. Individuals with IC and matched controls [sex, age ±5 years, home n = 56) were mostly male (64%) and aged 54-89 years. Individuals with IC spent significantly less time walking and took fewer steps than their matched controls at all locations, including at home. Participants spent more time and took more steps…
The influence of dog ownership on objective measures of free-living physical activity and sedentary behaviour in community-dwelling older adults
The scale of the influence of dog ownership on PA found in this study, indicates that future research regarding PA in older adults should assess and report dog ownership and/or dog walking status
Philosophy of Nature
In The Philosophy of Nature, Brian Ellis provides a clear and forthright general summation of, and introduction to, the new essentialist position. Although the theory that the laws of nature are immanent in things, rather than imposed on them from without, is an ancient one, much recent work has been done to revive interest in essentialism and The Philosophy of Nature is a distinctive contribution to this lively current debate. Brian Ellis expose…
Scientific Essentialism
Causal Laws and Singular Causation
In this paper it will be argued that causal laws describe the actions of causal powers. The process which results from such an action is one which belongs to a natural kind, the essence of which is that it is a display of this causal power. Therefore, if anything has a given causal power necessarily, it must be naturally disposed to act in the manner prescribed by the causal law describing the action of this causal power. In the formal expression…
Causal Powers and Laws of Nature
The really big questions
Rethinking the Nature of Subject Studies in Primary Initial Teacher Education
The publication of Circular 14/93 ‘Initial Training of Primary School Teachers’ (DfE 1993) sees yet another attempt to redefine and control the objectives, methods, outcomes and location of initial teacher education. It implies changes in the role of subject studies in initial teacher education, although its prescriptions in this regard are elusive. The interpretation and implications of these changes for subject studies are the focus of this pap…
Rethinking the nature of subject studies in primary initial teacher education
The publication of Circular 14/93 ‘Initial Training of Primary School Teachers’ (DfE 1993) sees yet another attempt to redefine and control the objectives, methods, outcomes and location of initial teacher education. It implies changes in the role of subject studies in initial teacher education, although its prescriptions in this regard are elusive. The interpretation and implications of these changes for subject studies are the focus of this pap…
Dispositional essentialism
Introducing humanistic geography through fieldwork
One challenge of teaching humanistic geography is to encourage students’ responses to landscapes in ways which may be different from their previous experience. Conventional wisdom about successful field teaching suggests that students should be prepared beforehand with the skills and techniques to be employed. The author questions how appropriate this is in humanistic geography and the article describes and evaluates an alternative approach using…
Truth and Objectivity
Truth and Objectivity
Scientific platonism
The World as One of a Kind
Truth and Objectivity
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Truth and Objectivity. By Brian Ellis. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. viii + 314. Price £35.00.) Howard Sankey Howard Sankey Saint David’s University College, Lampe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 169, October 1992, Pages 496–499, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220291 Published: 01 October 1992
Internal realism
Forces
Traditionally, forces are causes of a special sort. Forces have been conceived to be the direct or immediate causes of things. Other sorts of causes act indirectly by producing forces which are transmitted in various ways to produce various effects. However, forces are supposed to act directly without the mediation of anything else. But forces, so conceived, appear to be occult. They are mysterious, because we have no clear conception of what the…
Solving the Problem of Induction Using a Values-Based Epistemology
Two theories of indicative conditionals
Rational Belief Systems
Rational Belief Systems
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Rational Belief Systems. By Brian Ellis. [A.P.Q. Library of Philosophy.] (Oxford: Blackwell 1979. Pp. x+118. £6.95) D. E. Over D. E. Over Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 120, July 1980, Pages 283–285, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219270 Published: 01 July 1980
Is Signal Synchrony Independent of Transport Synchrony
Beauregard ([1], p. 488) claims that Bowman and I were mistaken in saying that “... if the empirical predictions of the Special Theory regarding clock transport are correct, [then] a slow transport definition of simultaneity can be constructed that is logically independent of any signal definition, but is in fact equivalent to the standard signal definition” ([2], p. 131) His objection is not to the empirical concordance of the two criteria, but …
The existence of forces
The Logic of Subjective Probability
Conventionality in Distant Simultaneity
In his original paper of 1905, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, Einstein described a procedure for synchronizing distant clocks at rest in any inertial system K. Clocks thus synchronized may be said to be in standard signal synchrony in K. It has often been claimed that there are no logical or physical reasons for preferring standard signal synchronizations to any of a range of possible non-standard ones. In this paper, the range of con…
Forces
Traditionally, forces are causes of a special sort. Forces have been conceived to be the direct or immediate causes of things. Other sorts of causes act indirectly by producing forces which are transmitted in various ways to produce various effects. However, forces are supposed to act directly without the mediation of anything else. But forces, so conceived, appear to be occult. They are mysterious, because we have no clear conception of what the…
The World as One of a Kind
The existence of forces
Causal Laws and Singular Causation
In this paper it will be argued that causal laws describe the actions of causal powers. The process which results from such an action is one which belongs to a natural kind, the essence of which is that it is a display of this causal power. Therefore, if anything has a given causal power necessarily, it must be naturally disposed to act in the manner prescribed by the causal law describing the action of this causal power. In the formal expression…
Universal and Differential Forces
Solving the Problem of Induction Using a Values-Based Epistemology
The Logic of Subjective Probability
On the Nature of Dimensions
In the first part of this paper it is shown that unit names, whether simple or complex, whether of fundamental, associative or derivative measurement, may always be regarded as the names of scales. In the second it is shown that dimension names, whether simple, like “[ M ]”, “[ L ]” and “[ T ]”, or complex dimensional formulae, may always be regarded as the names of classes of similar scales. Thus, a new foundation for the theory of dimensional a…
Introducing humanistic geography through fieldwork
One challenge of teaching humanistic geography is to encourage students’ responses to landscapes in ways which may be different from their previous experience. Conventional wisdom about successful field teaching suggests that students should be prepared beforehand with the skills and techniques to be employed. The author questions how appropriate this is in humanistic geography and the article describes and evaluates an alternative approach using…
Truth and Objectivity
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Truth and Objectivity. By Brian Ellis. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. viii + 314. Price £35.00.) Howard Sankey Howard Sankey Saint David’s University College, Lampe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 169, October 1992, Pages 496–499, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220291 Published: 01 October 1992
Newton's Concept of Motive Force
A Comparison of Process and Non-Process Theories in the Physical Sciences
Newton's Concept of Motive Force
Universal and Differential Forces
On the Nature of Dimensions
In the first part of this paper it is shown that unit names, whether simple or complex, whether of fundamental, associative or derivative measurement, may always be regarded as the names of scales. In the second it is shown that dimension names, whether simple, like “[ M ]”, “[ L ]” and “[ T ]”, or complex dimensional formulae, may always be regarded as the names of classes of similar scales. Thus, a new foundation for the theory of dimensional a…
Physical monism
Conventionality in Distant Simultaneity
In his original paper of 1905, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, Einstein described a procedure for synchronizing distant clocks at rest in any inertial system K. Clocks thus synchronized may be said to be in standard signal synchrony in K. It has often been claimed that there are no logical or physical reasons for preferring standard signal synchronizations to any of a range of possible non-standard ones. In this paper, the range of con…
The Logic of Subjective Probability
The existence of forces
Is Signal Synchrony Independent of Transport Synchrony
Beauregard ([1], p. 488) claims that Bowman and I were mistaken in saying that “... if the empirical predictions of the Special Theory regarding clock transport are correct, [then] a slow transport definition of simultaneity can be constructed that is logically independent of any signal definition, but is in fact equivalent to the standard signal definition” ([2], p. 131) His objection is not to the empirical concordance of the two criteria, but …
Rational Belief Systems
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Rational Belief Systems. By Brian Ellis. [A.P.Q. Library of Philosophy.] (Oxford: Blackwell 1979. Pp. x+118. £6.95) D. E. Over D. E. Over Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 120, July 1980, Pages 283–285, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219270 Published: 01 July 1980
Rational Belief Systems
Two theories of indicative conditionals
Internal realism
Forces
Traditionally, forces are causes of a special sort. Forces have been conceived to be the direct or immediate causes of things. Other sorts of causes act indirectly by producing forces which are transmitted in various ways to produce various effects. However, forces are supposed to act directly without the mediation of anything else. But forces, so conceived, appear to be occult. They are mysterious, because we have no clear conception of what the…
Solving the Problem of Induction Using a Values-Based Epistemology
Scientific platonism
The World as One of a Kind
Truth and Objectivity
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Truth and Objectivity. By Brian Ellis. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. viii + 314. Price £35.00.) Howard Sankey Howard Sankey Saint David’s University College, Lampe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 169, October 1992, Pages 496–499, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220291 Published: 01 October 1992
Introducing humanistic geography through fieldwork
One challenge of teaching humanistic geography is to encourage students’ responses to landscapes in ways which may be different from their previous experience. Conventional wisdom about successful field teaching suggests that students should be prepared beforehand with the skills and techniques to be employed. The author questions how appropriate this is in humanistic geography and the article describes and evaluates an alternative approach using…
Truth and Objectivity
Truth and Objectivity
Dispositional essentialism
Rethinking the Nature of Subject Studies in Primary Initial Teacher Education
The publication of Circular 14/93 ‘Initial Training of Primary School Teachers’ (DfE 1993) sees yet another attempt to redefine and control the objectives, methods, outcomes and location of initial teacher education. It implies changes in the role of subject studies in initial teacher education, although its prescriptions in this regard are elusive. The interpretation and implications of these changes for subject studies are the focus of this pap…
Rethinking the nature of subject studies in primary initial teacher education
The publication of Circular 14/93 ‘Initial Training of Primary School Teachers’ (DfE 1993) sees yet another attempt to redefine and control the objectives, methods, outcomes and location of initial teacher education. It implies changes in the role of subject studies in initial teacher education, although its prescriptions in this regard are elusive. The interpretation and implications of these changes for subject studies are the focus of this pap…
Causal Powers and Laws of Nature
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