Corbett, Ken - History/ Philosophy

Personal Information
First Name: 
Ken
Last Name: 
Corbett
University Affiliation: 
University of British Columbia
Area of Research
Discipline: 
History/ Philosophy
Time Period: 
19th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
Ken's Ph.D. research discusses the influence of railway and telegraph networks on norms concerning punctuality and time-keeping in England and India throughout the 19th century. His MA thesis traced the relationship between railway and telegraph networks and the culture of time in late nineteenth-century British periodicals. His other research interests include the origins of the philosophical arguments of British Phrenologists, the development of physics in the nineteenth century, and the philosophy of time.