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105. Decolonising Sovereignty: Globalisation and the Return of Hyper-SovereigntyIn Robert Schuett & Peter M. R. Stirk (eds.), The Concept of the State in International Relations: Philosophy, Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 135-162. 2015.
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10States of ConsciousnessIn Susan Schneider & Max Velmans (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, Wiley. 2017.Consciousness undergoes dramatic and stereotyped changes in parallel with changes in brain state over the sleep‐wake cycle. No change is more striking or more informative than that which differentiates waking and REM sleep dreaming. For example, dreaming is characterized by internally generated perceptions, by false beliefs, by cognitive impairments, by emotional intensification, and by amnesia. When they occur in waking, these formal state features characterize what is called mental illness. Be…Read more
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9Wealth and Life: A Study in ValuesRoutledge. 2011.First published in 1930, this book endeavours to trace and express the relations between economic and human values, between wealth and life. Hobson studies everything from the role of production processes and consumption in the determination of human welfare; to the changing attitudes of economic science towards ethical considerations; as well as the tendency of organised society to exercise a control of economic processes in the interests of equity, humanity, and social order. Part I of the boo…Read more
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8ConsciousnessW. 2000.Where does consciousness come from and how does it work? Is it a purely biological thing? Where does the brain leave off and the mind begin? These questions, once viewed as ethereal and impossible to study empirically, are now being addressed by science in bold and startling new ways.In Consciousness, world-renowned neuropsychiatrist J. Allan Hobson presents a witty and introspective consideration of this mysterious concept, connecting it to specific areas of the brain and their chemical and phy…Read more
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7Sleep and dream suppression following a lateral medullary infarct: A first-person accountConsciousness and Cognition 11 (3): 377-390. 2002.Consciousness can be studied only if subjective experience is documented and quantified, yet first-person accounts of the effects of brain injury on conscious experience are as rare as they are potentially useful. This report documents the alterations in waking, sleeping, and dreaming caused by a lateral medullary infarct. Total insomnia and the initial suppression of dreaming was followed by the gradual recovery of both functions. A visual hallucinosis during waking that was associated with the…Read more
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4Gold Prices and WagesRoutledge. 2010.First published in 1913, this _Routledge Revivals_ title reissues J. A. Hobson’s seminal analysis of the causal link between the rise in gold prices and the increase in wages and consumer buying power in the early years of the Twentieth Century. Contrary to the assertions of some notable contemporary economists and businessmen, Hobson contended that the relationship between gold prices and wages was in fact much more complex than it initially appeared and that there were significantly more impor…Read more
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3Poverty in Plenty : The Ethics of IncomeRoutledge. 2012.First published in 1931, this _Routledge Revivals_ title reissues J.A Hobson’s analysis of financial distribution in the early years of Twentieth Century Britain. The book focuses on the moral questions that he considered to be important in regard to the economic reforms that were necessary to secure the utilisation of modern productivity for the welfare of mankind. In this work, Hobson considers the wasteful working of the economic system, with its over-production, under-consumption and unemplo…Read more
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3Work and Wealth : A Human ValuationRoutledge. 2010.First published in 1914 and reissued with a new introduction in 1992, _Work and Wealth _is a seminal vision of Hobson's liberal utopian ideals, which desired to demonstrate how economic and social reform could transform existing society into one in which the majority of the population, as opposed to a small elite, could find fulfillment. Hobson attacked conventional economic wisdom which made a division between the cost of production and the utility derived from consumption. Far from being neces…Read more
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Simulation, or hybrid?In Christopher Grau (ed.), Philosophers Explore the Matrix, Oxford University Press. pp. 177. 2005.
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Altered states of consciousness: Drug induced statesIn Max Velmans & Susan Schneider (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, Blackwell. 2007.
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GlobalizationIn Arlene B. Tickner & Karen Smith (eds.), International relations from the global South: worlds of difference, Routledge. 2020.
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Discovering the Oriental WestIn Sandra G. Harding (ed.), The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Duke University Press. 2011.
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Consciousness: Its vicissitudes in waking and sleepIn Michael S. Gazzaniga (ed.), The New Cognitive Neurosciences: 2nd Edition, Mit Press. 2000.
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Chapman UniversityGraduate student
Orange, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Normative Ethics |