Chris Salter, Alien Agency

The alien hand syndrome: What makes the alien hand alien?

The alien hand syndrome is a deeply puzzling phenomenon in which brain-damaged patients experience their limb performing seemingly purposeful acts without their intention. Furthermore, the limb may interfere with the actions of their normal limb. We report a case of alien hand syndrome following a left medial frontal and corpus callosum ischemic lesion. From our clinical observations and the pa...

Chris Leighton

Electronic and magnetic materials are the central focus of our group's research. We study a wide variety of types of materials such as nanostructures, thin films, multilayered heterostructures, and bulk polycrystals and single crystals. We have interests in several areas including the interplay between electronic transport and magnetism in novel materials, and the study of interfaces between di...

Chris Tong

Salter Hume without Spontaneous Order

The question whether it is possible to be both a Humean and a contractarian arises from the interpretation of Hume as a theorist of spontaneous order, a theory that is usually taken to be incompatible with contractarianism. I argue that this interpretation is unconvincing and anachronistic. The real reason why it is problematic to view Hume as a contractarian is not because he is proponent of s...

William Thomas Salter (1901-1952)

This is our first meeting* since the untimely death, on July 30, 1952, of Dr. William Thomas Salter, Professor of Pharmacology in this School since 1941. It is also the first meeting from which he has been absent in some time. We shall miss his cheerful presence which often went far to dispel the excess gravity which has on occasion crept into the deliberations of this Board. The record of his ...