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This paper scrutinises the limits of a posteriori induction in acquiring modal knowledge. I focus on my similarity-based account (2017); an inductive, non-rationalist epistemology of modality about concrete entities. Despite the explanatory merits of the account in relation to a vast range of modal claims, this inductive epistemology has been found incapable of yielding knowledge of a certain, other range of modal claims. Here, two notions of knowability are distinguished which reveal some of...

Researchers who use animals in science must balance statistical power with the need to satisfy the three Rs, whereby researchers are required to reduce numbers of animals, refine what they experience, and use alternatives to (replace) higher animals where possible. In repeated sampling over time-series studies, there is potential loss of power as well as ethics implications posed by repeated sampling of individual animals, where this cannot be managed or avoided. Here, we consider the mathema...

In recent years museums and heritage sites have been encouraged to form deeper, more democratic and transparent relationships with their diverse publics, arguably requiring a different range of skills and ways of working which use workers’ emotions. However, the experience and use of emotions in this work is only just beginning to be discussed within the sector and in academic research, and there remains a limited understanding of the role of emotions in creating resilient and sustainable org...

This thesis investigates representations of the dead and dying body in American gothic literature from 1917 to 1999, specifically the violence enacted upon it and its often-ignored physicality. It demonstrates how modern U.S. society uses such bodies to mediate social anxieties about death, including the treatment of the dead/dying body, the experience of death, and society's ability to 'manage' death and negotiate the acceptable level of closeness to or distance from the dead which is expect...