The artist's touch, the craftsman's hand

This chapter briefly reviews recent empirical research on touch, including the role of touch in early development, emotions that can be conveyed by touch, the importance of touch f...

Touch is the ability to perceive the world through physical contact. This article describes three principles underlying biological touch sensing and how these principles can result...

This in-depth and original study examines 100 productions and analyses why George Abbott’s name became synonymous with the ‘golden age’ of Broadway. What did Abbott contribute? How...

After considering the possibility of a deontological application of the notion of being in touch, this chapter argues that compassionate agents achieve intuitively correct moral co...

‘Antique’, ‘vintage’, ‘previously owned’, ‘gently used’, ‘cast-off – the world of second hand encompasses as many attitudes as there are names for it. The popular perception is tha...

Stevenson himself declared that ‘style is of the essence of thinking’, but detractors thought him all style and no substance, a brilliant but vacuous mimic, while even admirers wor...

This chapter extends the argument of earlier chapters to cases of pleasure and desires. As before, it is argued that compassion is required to be in touch with other creatures’ sta...