Dwight, Thomas (1843–1911)

Dwight Damon, DDS, MSD.

Inframarginal values and demand : Contra Dwight Lee

Happiness studies show that there has been no discernable rise in happiness in the United States between 1959 and 2004, yet the same period saw per capita income nearly triple. Dwight Lee modifies the theory of consumer demand to resolve this apparent conflict. Using the concepts of consumer surplus and rising incomes causing demand shifts, Lee posits that the law of downward sloping demand onl...

Thomas Suddendorf

Thomas Suddendorf is Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia. He was born and raised in Germany, but has spent most of his adult life in the Antipodes. He studies the development of mental capacities in young children and in nonhuman animals to answer fundamental questions about the nature and evolution of the human mind. He has received honors and distinctions for bo...

Thomas Metzinger

Why Is a Representationalist Analysis Useful? In this chapter I will briefly sketch the outline of a representationalist theory of subjective experience. (See also Metzinger 1993, forthcoming). A representationalist theory is one that chooses to analyze its target properties – those aspects of the domain which eventually are to be explained – on a certain level of description: by describing con...

Thomas Carnwath.

THE Queen's University received a benefaction from Mrs. Carnwath and her family in 1955 to provide prizes in social and preventive medicine in memory of her husband, the late Dr. Thomas Carnwath. These awards originally took the form of a medal and book prize for the student gaining the highest place in the final part one examination in social and preventive medicine, a book prize for the stude...