Author Posts Open books from OBP: A showcase A showcase of freely accessible academic books - from anthologies to philosophical tracts to books on film and quotation - all introduced by their authors.
Author Posts Coronavirus, inequality and the ‘tipping point’ Mark O'Brien draws on the lessons from his book, 'Just Managing? What it Means for the Families of Austerity Britain' to discuss the very different experiences of the coronovirus emergency at either end of the UK’s social spectrum.
Moral Philosophy Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will by David Weissman Agency is fundamental to everything we are and do. Thinking, doing, and making—Aristotle’s triad of generic activities—imply it. Yet two reasons thwart inquiries that would make it
textbooks 'Models in Microeconomic Theory' by Martin J. Osborne As an undergraduate, I was fortunate not to learn microeconomic theory from a textbook. Instead, I was privileged to have two wonderful teachers, Frank Hahn and Partha Dasgupta. Frank
Open resources Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer’s 'Four Books on Human Proportion': Renaissance Proportion Theory by James Hutson Ever since the seminal publication on human proportion by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, the relevance to such studies to other areas was rarely in question. Writers on poetry,
COVID19 COVID19: Information and Resources from OBP An update on our activities during the coronavirus crisis, and a collection of freely available and downloadable resources that might be useful during this time.
Online conferences Successful econferences: examples and case studies This post presents some examples and in-depth case studies of successful online conferences.
Online conferences Time management and Continuous Partial Attention The simultaneous focus on multiple technologies and social contexts in conferences settings creates opportunities as well as problems for researchers.
Online conferences Are virtual conferences good enough? Socially constructed obstacles to virtual conference adoption are large, but fragile. Change will be driven by improvements in technology, increased networked literacy and pressure to restrain costs – both financial and ecological.
Online conferences What do conferences do—and can econferences replace them? Why do we have academic conferences at all, and what are the affordances and constraints of online conferences in meeting these needs?
