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Millennium meditations on Irish faith and culture
(The Furrow, 2000)
Elliptic curves – an introduction
(Irish Mathematical Society, 2007)
Class and status in twentieth-century Ireland: the evidence of oral history
(Irish Labour History Society, 2007)
In his recent monumental study of twentieth-century Ireland, Diarmaid Ferriter has emphasised pervasiveness of class distinction, particularly in the decades up to I960. This consciousness social class in its specifically ...
A review of "Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video" by Jane E.Goodman
(VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2006)
Based upon field research amongst the Kabyle "Berber" communities of Algeria and Paris, Goodman's book succeeds elegantly in the daunting task of drawing together a very wide range of materials and experiences in a unified, ...
A review of "Maroc: The Art of Maroc: The Art of Sama in Fez" recorded by Ted Levin
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2004)
The Orchestra Ahl-Faˆhs, under their director, Muhammad Bennis, performs all the music featured on this contemporary recording. It illustrates the exclusively male tradition of religious song and chant collectively known ...
Counterfactual ‘only if ’ conditionals
(Cognitive Science Society, 2003)
People understand a conditional, 'if A then B', such as 'if Peg went swimming then she felt well' by keeping in mind
only true possibilities, e.g., A and B, not-A and not-B, not-A and B (Johnson-Laird & Byrne, 2002). ...
Thinking counterfactually – how controllability affects the ‘undoing’ of causes and enablers.
(Cognitive Science Society, 2008)
Abstract
Previous research on counterfactual thoughts about prevention
suggests that people tend to focus on enabling rather than
causing agents. However, research has also demonstrated that
people have a preference ...
Beginnings: Virginia Woolf’s 'Melymbrosia' and Rebecca West’s 'The Sentinel'
(Center for Virginia Woolf Studies, California State University, Bakersfield., 2006)
A law unto himself; Derrida and the force of justice (Pre-published version)
(Universsitätsverlag, 2007)
This chapter examines Derrida’s distinction between law and justice, looking at the heritage of Pascal and Montaigne and examining issues of ethical and political responsibility in the process, taking some examples from ...
Negotiating the self – the spectral mobile subject (Pre-published version)
(Peter Lang, 2009)