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Machine Learning and Public Health: Philosophical Issues (2023)
Book Chapter
Grote, T., & Broadbent, A. (2023). Machine Learning and Public Health: Philosophical Issues. In S. Venkatapuram, & A. Broadbent (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health (190-204). Routledge

Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue (2023)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2023). Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14057

The article offers an ethnographically embedded analysis of a UK-based Jewish-Muslim inter-community network to contribute to anthropological research into the ethical efforts that groups seen as polarized invest in negotiating boundaries of differen... Read More about Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue.

Critiques of Big Science (2023)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. D. (2023). Critiques of Big Science. In P. Charitos, T. Arabatzis, H. Cliff, G. Dissertori, J. Forneris, & J. Li-Ying (Eds.), Big Science in the 21st Century: Economic and Societal Impacts. IOP Publishing

The name “big science,” like “big bang” or “big pharma,” began as a slur. Big science, that is, has been the subject of critique for at least as long as we have had a name for it. This chapter explores that legacy. It demonstrates how big science bec... Read More about Critiques of Big Science.

Metaphysical Idealists in Britain: Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley (2023)
Book Chapter
Thomas, E. (2023). Metaphysical Idealists in Britain: Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley. In A. Stone, & L. Moland (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century (C34S1–C34N22). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197558898.013.34

Idealists agree that reality is somehow mental, holding say that reality comprises consciousness or spirit. Idealism can be developed in many different ways and, before the distinctive movement known as “British idealism” emerged, other idealisms wer... Read More about Metaphysical Idealists in Britain: Constance Naden, Victoria Welby, and Arabella Buckley.

University Chaplaincy as Relational Presence: Navigating understandings of good and effective chaplaincy in UK universities (2023)
Journal Article
Aune, K., Peacock, L., Guest, M., & Law, J. (2023). University Chaplaincy as Relational Presence: Navigating understandings of good and effective chaplaincy in UK universities. Journal of College and Character, 24(3), 197-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/2194587X.2023.2224573

Chaplains are embedded in the culture and life of many universities and are a key part of university support for religious students. Yet university chaplaincy has rarely been researched by social scientists. This article explores the role of chaplain... Read More about University Chaplaincy as Relational Presence: Navigating understandings of good and effective chaplaincy in UK universities.

Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2023). Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom. Anthropological Theory, 24(1), 67-87. https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996231179520

Building upon ethnographic research conducted among participants in UK-based initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue, the paper contributes to anthropological literature on the essentialising nature of state-sponsored constructions of minoritised group... Read More about Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom.

Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives (2023)
Journal Article
Vickers, P., Cowie, C., Dick, S. J., Gillen, C., Jeancolas, C., Rothschild, L. J., & McMahon, S. (2023). Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. Astrobiology, https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2022.0084

Potential biosignatures offering the promise of extraterrestrial life (past or present) are to be expected in the coming years and decades, whether from within our own solar system, from an exoplanet atmosphere, or otherwise. With each such potential... Read More about Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives.

The Specious Present in English Philosophy 1749-1785: On David Hartley, Joseph Priestley, Abraham Tucker, and William Watson (2023)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2023). The Specious Present in English Philosophy 1749-1785: On David Hartley, Joseph Priestley, Abraham Tucker, and William Watson. Philosophers' Imprint, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.1281

Drawing on the 1870s-1880s work of Shadworth Hodgson and Robert Kelly, William James famously characterised the specious present as ‘the short duration of which we are immediately and incessantly sensible’. Literature on the pre-history of late ninet... Read More about The Specious Present in English Philosophy 1749-1785: On David Hartley, Joseph Priestley, Abraham Tucker, and William Watson.

Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Analysis? (2023)
Book Chapter
Miller, J. (2023). Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Analysis?. In M. Garcia-Godinez (Ed.), Thomasson on Ontology (85-108). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23672-3_5

Amie Thomasson’s work provides numerous ways to rethink and improve our approach to metaphysics. This chapter is my attempt to begin to sketch why I still think the easy approach leaves room for substantive metaphysical work, and why I do not think t... Read More about Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Analysis?.

Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Macnaughton, J. (2023). Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19. Medical Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012602

Medical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or necessarily the primary aim of our field. What the COVID-19 pandemic has r... Read More about Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19.

Music, Mortality, and Memory (2023)
Book
Davies, D., & McCullough, M. (Eds.). Music, Mortality, and Memory. Brill Academic Publishers. Manuscript submitted for publication

Digital and socio-civic skills development and young people’s perceptions of digital citizenship in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Peart, M., Higgins, S., Gutiérrez-Esteban, P., & Cubo Delgado, S. (2023). Digital and socio-civic skills development and young people’s perceptions of digital citizenship in the UK. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/17461979231170232

Digital Citizenship is an emerging field of research but there is still a lack of knowledge into what works and how to implement educational practices to develop digital citizenship. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the relationship between... Read More about Digital and socio-civic skills development and young people’s perceptions of digital citizenship in the UK.

Pandemic response strategies and threshold phenomena (2023)
Journal Article
Streicher, P., & Broadbent, A. (2023). Pandemic response strategies and threshold phenomena. Global epidemiology, 5, Article 100105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloepi.2023.100105

This paper critically evaluates the Suppression Threshold Strategy (STS) for controlling Covid-19 (C-19). STS asserts a “fundamental distinction” between suppression and mitigation strategies, reflected in very different outcomes in eventual mortalit... Read More about Pandemic response strategies and threshold phenomena.

Introduction: Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics and traces (2023)
Journal Article
Alexander, C. (2023). Introduction: Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics and traces. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29, 8-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13899

This volume follows failures out into the world exploring how they unfold ethnographically. Taking a longer view shows how objects, narratives and diagnoses of failures may be crafted, acted on, suffered, resisted—unmade or recomposed. Thus while tro... Read More about Introduction: Writing failure: knowledge production, temporalities, ethics and traces.

Victoria Welby (2023)
Book
Thomas, E. (2023). Victoria Welby. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009345897

In 1880s Britain, Victoria Welby (1837–1912) began creating a rich, wide-ranging metaphysical system. At its heart lies Motion, 'the great fact, the supreme category'. Drawing extensively on archive materials, this Element offers the first study of W... Read More about Victoria Welby.

Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies and gigantism in fusion energy development (2023)
Journal Article
Alexander, C. (2023). Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies and gigantism in fusion energy development. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29(S1), 114-132. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13905

Tracing the history of terrestrial fusion energy to a giant multinational experimental fusion facility under construction reveals a series of consequential failures, re-evaluations of once defunct designs, but also persistence. To account for how thi... Read More about Suspending failure: temporalities, ontologies and gigantism in fusion energy development.

The Obsession with Time in 1880s-1930s American-British Philosophy (2023)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2023). The Obsession with Time in 1880s-1930s American-British Philosophy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 31(2), 149-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2022.2093157

In American-British philosophy around the turn of the twentieth century, every philosopher and their dog had something to say on time. Thinkers worried about our experience of time: Do we actually experience time? How do we experience the present? Is... Read More about The Obsession with Time in 1880s-1930s American-British Philosophy.