David Landy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 79159 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Landy |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Landy |
| ASSINATURA | LANDY D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2212-6379 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 74 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 380 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1958 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Prayer as collaborative problem solving
Why do people pray? In this paper, we suggest another important dimension of prayer, namely that prayer is a form of collaborative problem solving. In this paper, we use both qualitative evidence drawn from interviews and quantitative evidence from a survey and an experiment to show that people use prayer to solve practical problems in their lives. We also argue that the informal and personal ways in which people address God in prayer put God int…
Bias in Self‐Knowledge of Global Communities
Citizens in countries around the world dramatically overestimate the size of minority demographic groups and underestimate the size of majority groups. Media outlets and researchers have concluded that this pattern of errors is a result of characteristics of individual and societal distortions, such as the level of threat the group is imagined to pose and the amount of exposure someone has with the group. More recent work suggests that this error…
Shepherd on reason
Mary Shepherd assigns reason a central role in her philosophical system, and so to understand that system we must understand her conception of reason. Does she, like Hume, take reason to be a mere matter of factual process that operates over independently contentful representations? Does she, like Descartes, take it to be a process that is intended to track the rational relations among such representations? Or does she, like Kant, take reason to …
Is Shepherd a Monist
For Shepherd, how many things exist? On the one hand, it looks like the answer is going to be many. It is a central tent of Shepherd's philosophical system that causation is a relation whereby two or more objects combine to create a third. Since there are many instances of this causal relation, there must be many objects in the world. On the other hand, there are several moments throughout her writing where Shepherd indicates that the distinction…
Is Shepherd a Bundle Theorist
Shepherd appears to endorse something like the following biconditional regarding qualities and objects: Necessarily, an object exists if and only if some bundle of qualities exists. There is a growing consensus in the secondary literature that she takes the right side of this biconditional to ground the left side – that is, that Shepherd is a bundle theorist who takes an object to be nothing but a mass of qualities or causal powers. I argue here …
Kant’s Better-than-Terrible Argument in the Anticipations of Perception
Scholars working on Kant’s Anticipations of Perception generally attribute to him an argument that invalidly infers that objects have degrees of intensive magnitude from the premise that sensations do. I argue that this rests on an incorrect disambiguation of Kant’s use of Empfindung (sensation) as referring to the mental states that are our sensings, rather than the objects that are thereby sensed. Kant’s real argument runs as follows. The diffe…
The Fighting Irish? Explaining the Temporal Pattern of Social Protest during Ireland's Fiscal Crisis 2008-2014
The fiscal crisis of 2008 led to severe recession and hardship in Ireland, yet there was relatively little civic unrest and public protest until the autumn of 2014 when, paradoxically, economic conditions had improved significantly. Sociologists often explain such patterns by invoking a social mechanism based on perceived 'relative deprivation' among a population sub-group. We show that these processes cannot explain the temporal pattern of prote…
Hume’s Science of Human Nature
Hume’s Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls ‘the science of human nature’. It argues that Hume understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the inductively-established universal regularities discovered in experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a …
The place of Palestinians in tourist and Zionist discourses in the ‘City of David’, occupied East Jerusalem
The ‘City of David’ in Silwan is on the original site of Jerusalem. Located in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, it is both an illegal Israeli settlement in a Palestinian neighbourhood and a popular international tourist destination. This article examines how the site is narrated by tour operators and tourists through fieldwork, interviews and analysis of tourist comments on the TripAdvisor site. It argues that Israeli settlers have successfully h…
The return of the ‘Black Babies’
This article investigates how development education campaigns affect schoolchildren’s understanding of both global and domestic poverty, through examining the 2012 Lenten campaign by the Irish agency, Trócaire. It analyses Trócaire campaign material as well as its reception by schoolchildren, aged 10–12. We found the material contained neo-colonial stereotypes about Africa as a primitive place dependent on Western aid, displaying continuity with …
Muslims in neoliberal Ireland
Testing the Effectiveness of a Number-Based Classroom Exercise
Large numbers permeate political life, and students of political science can expect to encounter a wide range of numbers in newspaper articles, course readings, and statistics. Recent research in cognitive psychology demonstrates that American adults make systematic errors when comparing numbers in the millions, billions, and trillions. Political decisions made by voters often require weighing large quantities that range across many orders of mag…
Kant's Inferentialism
Introduction 1. Hume's Theory of Mental Representation 2. Two Objections to Hume's Theory of Mental Representation 3. The A-Deduction and the Nature of Intuitions 4. The Object of Representation 5. Self and World in the Analogies of Experience 6. The Inferential Self Postscript of Transcendental Idealism
Bringing the Outside In
This article applies field theory in order to build an understanding of aspects of social movements practice. It argues that the way social movements are positioned within their various fields of practice and the way these fields inter-relate with each other can help explain how movements arrive at their strategies and ideologies. The relationship between the fields within which social movements operate also provides a means to explain how moveme…
SAI News and Notices
Challengers in the migrant field
This article examines the dynamics through which the migrant field in Ireland is governed, and, through analysing NGO contention over the Immigration, Residence and Protection (IRP) Bill, explores the role they play in the field. The article argues that NGOs both influence and are institutionally channelled by state discourse surrounding migrants. The IRP Bill was designed to regulate non-EU citizens in Ireland, and codified the discretionary pow…
Talking human rights
Human rights discourse is central for the work of international social movements. Viewing human rights as a context-dependent and socially constructed discourse, this article investigates how it is used by a specific social movement - Israel-critical diaspora Jewish activists - and argues that it can simultaneously challenge and reproduce existing practices of domination. The article applies contemporary critiques of human rights to the case of P…
We are more than statistics and scattered body parts
The fragmentation of Palestinian lives into exile, under occupation and within Israel has led to a complex interweaving of collective memory and individual memories in the attempt to come to terms with and represent this existence. Central to Palestinian self-understanding is the key interruptive event of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 which disrupted the people's links to the land of Palestine - not only for Palestinians in…
Co-memory and Melancholia. Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba. By Ronit Lentin
Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights
Diaspora Jews are increasingly likely to criticise Israel and support Palestinian rights. In the USA, Europe and elsewhere, Jewish organisations have sprung up to oppose Israel's treatment of Palestinians, facing harsh criticism from fellow Jews for their actions
Improving Perception to Make Distant Connections Closer
One of the challenges for perceptually grounded accounts of high-level cognition is to explain how people make connections and draw inferences between situations that superficially have little in common. Evidence suggests that people draw these connections even without having explicit, verbalizable knowledge of their bases. Instead, the connections are based on sub-symbolic representations that are grounded in perception, action, and space. One r…
Inferentialism and the Transcendental Deduction
One recent trend in Kant scholarship has been to read Kant as undertaking a project in philosophical semantics , as opposed to, say, epistemology, or transcendental metaphysics. This trend has evolved almost concurrently with a debate in contemporary philosophy of mind about the nature of concepts and their content. Inferentialism is the view that the content of our concepts is essentially inferentially articulated, that is, that the content of a…
Zionism, Multiculturalism and the Construction of Irish-Jewish Identity
This paper examines the construction of Irish-Jewish identity, through the prism of the Ireland–Israel soccer match in 2005. While, under the terms of ‘celebratory multiculturalism’ Irish Jews were able to use joke-work to bat away the implied loyalty test of ‘which side are you on’, the pro-Palestinian political mobilisation on the day of the match was more problematic. Within the narrative of Irish Zionism, these pro-Palestinian activities were…
Hume's Impression/Idea Distinction
Understanding the distinction between impressions and ideas that Hume draws in the opening paragraphs of his A Treatise on Human Nature is essential for understanding much of Hume's philosophy. This, however, is a task that has been the cause of a good deal of controversy in the literature on Hume. I here argue that the significant philosophical and exegetical issues previous treatments of this distinction (such as the force and vivacity reading …
Inca Israeli-Jews
Anthropology of Symbolic Healing [and Comments and Reply]
A number of investigators are agreed that the popular medical systems of tribal, peasant, and allied peoples are "effective." Most of the literature closely examining that effectiveness focuses on the ethnopharmacological dimensions of the healing systems and generally ignores psychosocial factors. Recent developments in psychophysiology may offer insights into these neglected areas. The specific idea to be examined here is that successful "gener…
On Ethnic Unit Classification [and Comments and Reply]
This paper discusses the general concept of the basic culture-bearing unit and proposes a new definition-the cultunit. This proposal is a response to the need for units of cross-cultural surveys to be comparable and to be rigorously defined if these studies are to be validated statistically. Such anthropologists as Schapera, Berndt, Whiting, Evans-Pritchard, Reichard, Radcliffe-Brown, Fortes, Ember, Murdock, Nadel, Leach and Driver have given muc…
Role Adaptation
To examine effects on the curer's role of the contest between indigenous and Western medical systems, the concept of role adaptation is proposed. Anthropological treatment of the curer's role and the role concept are described. Curing role adaptation in selected societies under acculturation is analyzed and a typology derived of the curer's role as adaptive, attenuated, or emergent. Alternative routes to role adaptation or extinction are explored…
The influence of the character of the criminal and his victim on the decisions of simulated jurors
Beauty is talent
Radiating beauty
Evaluation of an aggressor as a function of exposure to cartoon humor
Liking a Person as a Function of Doing Him a Favour
Pibloktoq (hysteria) and inuit nutrition
Bringing the Outside In
This article applies field theory in order to build an understanding of aspects of social movements practice. It argues that the way social movements are positioned within their various fields of practice and the way these fields inter-relate with each other can help explain how movements arrive at their strategies and ideologies. The relationship between the fields within which social movements operate also provides a means to explain how moveme…
Talking human rights
Human rights discourse is central for the work of international social movements. Viewing human rights as a context-dependent and socially constructed discourse, this article investigates how it is used by a specific social movement - Israel-critical diaspora Jewish activists - and argues that it can simultaneously challenge and reproduce existing practices of domination. The article applies contemporary critiques of human rights to the case of P…
Liking for an evaluator as a function of his discernment
Challengers in the migrant field
This article examines the dynamics through which the migrant field in Ireland is governed, and, through analysing NGO contention over the Immigration, Residence and Protection (IRP) Bill, explores the role they play in the field. The article argues that NGOs both influence and are institutionally channelled by state discourse surrounding migrants. The IRP Bill was designed to regulate non-EU citizens in Ireland, and codified the discretionary pow…
Improving Perception to Make Distant Connections Closer
One of the challenges for perceptually grounded accounts of high-level cognition is to explain how people make connections and draw inferences between situations that superficially have little in common. Evidence suggests that people draw these connections even without having explicit, verbalizable knowledge of their bases. Instead, the connections are based on sub-symbolic representations that are grounded in perception, action, and space. One r…
Toward a Biocultural Medical Anthropology
To study cultures as ideational systems without mapping the complex cybernetic circuits that link them to social systems, to ecosystems, and to the psychology and biology of individuals would turn cultural analysis into an arcane pursuit isolated from surrounding disciplines at a stage when a fantastic burst of scientific knowledge-with human survival as the stakes-is being launched: a burst that should relegate to the realm of Ptolemaic astronom…
Tropical Childhood
The place of Palestinians in tourist and Zionist discourses in the ‘City of David’, occupied East Jerusalem
The ‘City of David’ in Silwan is on the original site of Jerusalem. Located in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, it is both an illegal Israeli settlement in a Palestinian neighbourhood and a popular international tourist destination. This article examines how the site is narrated by tour operators and tourists through fieldwork, interviews and analysis of tourist comments on the TripAdvisor site. It argues that Israeli settlers have successfully h…
Testing the Effectiveness of a Number-Based Classroom Exercise
Large numbers permeate political life, and students of political science can expect to encounter a wide range of numbers in newspaper articles, course readings, and statistics. Recent research in cognitive psychology demonstrates that American adults make systematic errors when comparing numbers in the millions, billions, and trillions. Political decisions made by voters often require weighing large quantities that range across many orders of mag…
Kant's Inferentialism
Introduction 1. Hume's Theory of Mental Representation 2. Two Objections to Hume's Theory of Mental Representation 3. The A-Deduction and the Nature of Intuitions 4. The Object of Representation 5. Self and World in the Analogies of Experience 6. The Inferential Self Postscript of Transcendental Idealism
Inca Israeli-Jews
The effects of an overheard audience's reaction and attractiveness on opinion change
The Social Organization and Culture of a Club for Former Mental Patients
Cultural Antecedents of Mental Illness in the United States
The return of the ‘Black Babies’
This article investigates how development education campaigns affect schoolchildren’s understanding of both global and domestic poverty, through examining the 2012 Lenten campaign by the Irish agency, Trócaire. It analyses Trócaire campaign material as well as its reception by schoolchildren, aged 10–12. We found the material contained neo-colonial stereotypes about Africa as a primitive place dependent on Western aid, displaying continuity with …
We are more than statistics and scattered body parts
The fragmentation of Palestinian lives into exile, under occupation and within Israel has led to a complex interweaving of collective memory and individual memories in the attempt to come to terms with and represent this existence. Central to Palestinian self-understanding is the key interruptive event of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 which disrupted the people's links to the land of Palestine - not only for Palestinians in…
Cultural Antecedents of Mental Illness in the United States
Tuscarora Tribalism and National Identity
Pressures of acculturation continue to weaken the cement of Tuscarora tribalism, which so far has held together the retaining wall of social and cultural survival around their reservation community. This is not to presume impending disorganization, but to suggest that the society continues to undergo incisive changes which cut to the quick of traditional ways of life. Nevertheless, it is apparent from the anthropologist Anthony F. C. Wallace's st…
The Anthropologist and the Mental Hospital
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David Landy; The Anthropologist and the Mental Hospital. Human Organization 1 September 1958; 17 (3): 30–35. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.17.3.hx65m43341761m28 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends…
Exploration in Residential After-Care of Psychiatric Patients
Rutland Corner House
Common Assumptions, Dimensions, And Problems Of Pathway Organizations
Tropical Childhood
Tropical Childhood
Tropical Childhood
The Social Organization and Culture of a Club for Former Mental Patients
On Ethnic Unit Classification [and Comments and Reply]
This paper discusses the general concept of the basic culture-bearing unit and proposes a new definition-the cultunit. This proposal is a response to the need for units of cross-cultural surveys to be comparable and to be rigorously defined if these studies are to be validated statistically. Such anthropologists as Schapera, Berndt, Whiting, Evans-Pritchard, Reichard, Radcliffe-Brown, Fortes, Ember, Murdock, Nadel, Leach and Driver have given muc…
Further steps beyond Parkinson's Law
Liking for an evaluator as a function of his discernment
Psychological Needs and Cultural Systems
Evaluation of an aggressor as a function of exposure to cartoon humor
Liking a Person as a Function of Doing Him a Favour
The influence of the character of the criminal and his victim on the decisions of simulated jurors
Graduate Record Exam Criticized
Community Studies
The effects of an overheard audience's reaction and attractiveness on opinion change
Radiating beauty
The attribution of motivation as a function of output and rewards
Beauty is talent
Placement Ads Fee
Role Adaptation
To examine effects on the curer's role of the contest between indigenous and Western medical systems, the concept of role adaptation is proposed. Anthropological treatment of the curer's role and the role concept are described. Curing role adaptation in selected societies under acculturation is analyzed and a typology derived of the curer's role as adaptive, attenuated, or emergent. Alternative routes to role adaptation or extinction are explored…
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