But as this story opens he has resigned as a consultant and is now spending his time teaching criminology matters and methods.
I was trained in matters and methods of thought so esoteric that some of my academic essays and early books could be read with profit and understood thoroughly by no more than a few hundred people around the globe.
"As a matter of policy, we do not discuss matters and methods of analyzing and gathering intelligence," Cabiness, the Pentagon spokesperson, told us when we asked about the quality of intelligence and the coalition's ability to launch dynamic strikes with it.
Pobell, F. Matter and Methods at Low Temperatures Springer-Verlag (2007).
In the 1960s, this was the hope expressed by the likes of Ballard, Aldiss and others of us around New Worlds magazine who despaired of conventional literature's inability to engage substantially with the modern world and thought to experiment with the subject matter and methods of imaginative fiction.
Among his most influential writings were The Sceptical Chymist (1661), which assailed the then-current Aristotelian and especially Paracelsian notions about the composition of matter and methods of chemical analysis, and the Origine of Formes and Qualities (1666), which used chemical phenomena to support the corpuscularian hypothesis.
It was judged to be not feasible to get any meaningful results out of this, due to the wide variability in subject matter and methods.
Putnam stated the result, or, anyway, a special case, in a 1963 Voice of America Broadcast, "Probability and Confirmation", reprinted in his Mathematics, Matter and Method, Cambridge University Press (1975)293-304.
Collingwood's first mature work, An Essay on Philosophical Method (1933), is a substantial treatise in metaphilosophy which seeks to delineate the subject matter and method of philosophical analysis.
Freed by his ignoble status from the task of influencing the direction of the Communist movement, the texts associated with this project and gathered together in the book Philosophy of the Encounter differ tremendously in subject matter, style, and method from his other writings.
Questions also arose as to new technologies under development, matters of definition, and methods of verification.
