Professor Thomas A. Bennet-Clark

Thomas W . Clark Killing the Observer

Phenomenal consciousness is often thought to involve a first-person perspective or point of view which makes available to the subject categorically private, first-person facts about experience, facts that are irreducible to third-person physical, functional, or representational facts. This paper seeks to show that on a representational account of consciousness, we don’t have an observational pe...

The Business Failures Project: A Problem in Methodology (with William Clark and Dorothy S. Thomas)

Harold Ensign Bennet Pardee.

Harold Ensign Bennet Pardee (1886–1973) (Fig. 1) was born in New York City on December 11, 1886, the son of Dr. Ensign Bennet Pardee and Clare Burton Pardee.1, 2 He received his A.B. degree from Columbia College in 1906, at the age of 18, and his M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1909. During three years of postgraduate training at The New York Hospital, he became interested i...

Professor P. K. Thomas: clinician, investigator, editor and leader--a retrospective appreciation.

P. K. Thomas (1926-2008) occupied a prominent place in British and world neurology during the second half of the 20th century. Here, his lasting achievements as clinical neurologist, clinician scientist and experimentalist, editor of monographs and journals and leader of professional developments in the UK and elsewhere are assessed.

Essay Review Against Retribution by Thomas W . Clark A review of Placing Blame : A General Theory of Criminal Law

Intuitively, naturalism undercuts retributive attitudes by showing that the causal story behind crime involves numerous factors outside the individual. Although Michael Moore is entirely naturalistic in his understanding of human behavior, he thinks any mitigation of retributive judgments is unwarranted: retribution is an intrinsic good, and we should discard our sympathies for disadvantaged of...