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3 The Challenge of (Self-)Consciousness: Kant, Artificial Intelligence and Sense-Making (2022)
Book Chapter
Baiasu, S. (2022). 3 The Challenge of (Self-)Consciousness: Kant, Artificial Intelligence and Sense-Making. In Kant and Artificial Intelligence (105-128). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110706611-003

How do we make sense of the countless pieces of information flowing to us from the environment? This question, sometimes called the Problem of Representation, is one of the most significant problems in cognitive science. Some pioneering and important... Read More about 3 The Challenge of (Self-)Consciousness: Kant, Artificial Intelligence and Sense-Making.

Consumer Perceptions of Blended Hydrogen in the Home: Learning from HyDeploy (2022)
Report
Robinson, Z., Peacock, A., Thompson, M., & Catney, P. (2022). Consumer Perceptions of Blended Hydrogen in the Home: Learning from HyDeploy. Keele University: Keele University

This report presents the results of
research into consumer perceptions and
the subsequent degree of acceptance of
blended hydrogen in domestic properties.
Evidence from two trial sites of the
HyDeploy programme: i) a private site trial
at... Read More about Consumer Perceptions of Blended Hydrogen in the Home: Learning from HyDeploy.

George Perry (1771–1823): architect and naturalist (2022)
Journal Article
Leach, S., & Torrens, H. S. (2022). George Perry (1771–1823): architect and naturalist. Archives of Natural History, 49(1), 117-129. https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2022.0762

George Perry (1771-1823) was an artist, architect and sculptor, with a deep interest in natural history and malacology. (His father, George Perry (c.1718-1771), was a pioneering industrialist, with a particular interest in geology and also the histor... Read More about George Perry (1771–1823): architect and naturalist.

George Perry (c.1718-1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). George Perry (c.1718-1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist. Archives of Natural History, 102 - 116. https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2022.0761

George Perry (c.1718–1771) is known for his involvement in the development of the iron and engineering industries of Coalbrookdale, Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire and Liverpool, and also for his ambition to publish a history together with new maps of L... Read More about George Perry (c.1718-1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist.

In our own image: materialism’s impoverished image of humanity and what this means for our technological future (2022)
Thesis
Brayford, K. M. In our own image: materialism’s impoverished image of humanity and what this means for our technological future. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/422680

In this thesis, I seek to temper the commonly held faith in our technological endeavours. Recently this has taken the form of seeking to create humanlike technologies. In part one, I argue that progress in this is derailed by the image of humanity ad... Read More about In our own image: materialism’s impoverished image of humanity and what this means for our technological future.

Powers and the Hard Problem of Consciousness: Conceivability, Possibility and Powers (2022)
Journal Article
Allen. (2022). Powers and the Hard Problem of Consciousness: Conceivability, Possibility and Powers. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-022-00451-3

Do conceivability arguments work against physicalism if properties are causal powers? By considering three different ways of understanding causal powers and the modality associated with them, I will argue that most, if not all, physicalist powers the... Read More about Powers and the Hard Problem of Consciousness: Conceivability, Possibility and Powers.

Rhizomatic poverty in aquaculture communities of rural India & Bangladesh (2022)
Journal Article
Shubin, S., Andrews, W., & Sowgat, T. (2022). Rhizomatic poverty in aquaculture communities of rural India & Bangladesh. Social and Cultural Geography, 24(8), 1285-1304. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2055776

The paper uses illustrations from rural India and Bangladesh to develop a critical analysis of practices and experiences of poverty often overlooked in development policies. It challenges the principle measurement, calculative rationality and static... Read More about Rhizomatic poverty in aquaculture communities of rural India & Bangladesh.

The Political Economy of Street Trees (2022)
Book Chapter
Catney, P., & Henneberry, J. (2022). The Political Economy of Street Trees. In The Politics of Street Trees. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003054672-20

Over the last 50 years there has been a paradigmatic shift in the climate of ideas and governing orthodoxy from Keynesian-corporatism to neoliberalism. Such paradigms provide the philosophical goals that are pursued by policy and practice and determi... Read More about The Political Economy of Street Trees.

Viral Law: Life, Death, Difference, and Indifference from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19 (2022)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2022). Viral Law: Life, Death, Difference, and Indifference from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 35, pages1019–1037. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-022-09893-7

What is viral law? In order to being my discussion, I note that the last two years have been extremely difficult to understand and that we, meaning those who have lived through the pandemic, have struggled to make sense. Thus, I make the argument tha... Read More about Viral Law: Life, Death, Difference, and Indifference from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19.