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What's dynamic about causal powers? A black box! (2022)
Book Chapter
Marmodoro, A. (2022). What's dynamic about causal powers? A black box!. In Powers, Time and Free Will (1-15). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92486-7_1

Modern science cannot do without Aristotelian powers – thus have argued Cartwright and Pemberton (2013) among many others. Aristotelian powers are essentially dynamic entities, which account for causal phenomena, and thus explain how change comes abo... Read More about What's dynamic about causal powers? A black box!.

Killing swiftly: The effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly (2022)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2022). Killing swiftly: The effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly. In I. Gammel, & J. Wang (Eds.), Creative Resilience and COVID-19 (61-69). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003213536-8

This essay discusses the increase in the sense of vulnerability that many older people felt with the onset of COVID-19, which reverses the sense of security in old age which has been developing over recent decades. Pascal Bruckner’s book A Brief Eter... Read More about Killing swiftly: The effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderly.

Hume and Liberal Naturalism (2022)
Book Chapter
Smith, B. (2022). Hume and Liberal Naturalism. In M. De Caro, & D. Macarthur (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351209472

The work of David Hume (1711–1776) is regarded as one of the most influential articulations of a naturalistic approach in philosophy, interpreted by many as a key inspiration for naturalist projects in a range of areas. Hume's ambition was to investi... Read More about Hume and Liberal Naturalism.

The appropriating subject: Cultural appreciation, property and entitlement (2022)
Journal Article
Cattien, J., & Stopford, R. J. (2023). The appropriating subject: Cultural appreciation, property and entitlement. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 49(9), 1061–1078. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537211059515

What is cultural ‘appropriation’? What is cultural ‘appreciation’? Whatever the complex answer to this question, cultural appropriation is commonly defined as ‘the taking of something produced by members of one culture by members of another’ (Young 2... Read More about The appropriating subject: Cultural appreciation, property and entitlement.

Varieties of felt presence? Three surveys of presence phenomena and their relations to psychopathology (2022)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., Moseley, P., Mitrenga, K., Moffatt, J., Lee, R., Foxwell, J., …Fernyhough, C. (2023). Varieties of felt presence? Three surveys of presence phenomena and their relations to psychopathology. Psychological Medicine, 53(8), 3692-3700. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291722000344

Background Experiences of felt presence (FP) are well documented in neurology, neuropsychology and bereavement research, but systematic research in relation to psychopathology is limited. FP is a feature of sensorimotor disruption in psychosis, hypna... Read More about Varieties of felt presence? Three surveys of presence phenomena and their relations to psychopathology.

The Myth of the Physical Given (2022)
Journal Article
Simpson, W. (2022). The Myth of the Physical Given. Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 119(1), 151-164

Is HPS a valuable component of a STEM education? An empirical study of student interest in HPS courses within an undergraduate science curriculum (2022)
Journal Article
Lusk, G. (2022). Is HPS a valuable component of a STEM education? An empirical study of student interest in HPS courses within an undergraduate science curriculum. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 12(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00433-x

This paper presents the results of a survey of students majoring in STEM fields whose education contained a significant history, philosophy and sociology (HPS) of science component. The survey was administered to students in a North American public 4... Read More about Is HPS a valuable component of a STEM education? An empirical study of student interest in HPS courses within an undergraduate science curriculum.

Can Robots Do Epidemiology? Machine Learning, Causal Inference, and Predicting the Outcomes of Public Health Interventions (2022)
Journal Article
Broadbent, A., & Grote, T. (2022). Can Robots Do Epidemiology? Machine Learning, Causal Inference, and Predicting the Outcomes of Public Health Interventions. Philosophy & Technology, 35(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00509-3

This paper argues that machine learning (ML) and epidemiology are on collision course over causation. The discipline of epidemiology lays great emphasis on causation, while ML research does not. Some epidemiologists have proposed imposing what amount... Read More about Can Robots Do Epidemiology? Machine Learning, Causal Inference, and Predicting the Outcomes of Public Health Interventions.

Space and its Relationship to God (2022)
Book Chapter
Janiak, A., & Thomas, E. (2022). Space and its Relationship to God. In D. Miller, & D. Jalobeanu (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution (424-438). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333108.025

During the Scientific Revolution, philosophers wondered how best to understand space. Many debates revolved around the account advanced in Descartes’s Principles of Philosophy (1644), and this chapter treats it as a focal point. Descartes argued for... Read More about Space and its Relationship to God.

Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors (2021)
Book Chapter
Marmodoro, A. (2021). Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors. In J. Jorati (Ed.), Powers: A History (10-27). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190925512.003.0002

This chapter introduces the reader to Aristotle’s account of causal powers and highlights the conceptual innovations he introduced in relation to the accounts of his predecessors, most notably Anaxagoras and Plato. The chapter argues that Aristotle’s... Read More about Causal Powers in Aristotle and his Predecessors.

Impacts of Professionalization and Wellbeing Policies on Scottish Prison Workers (2021)
Journal Article
Fletcher, A., McKie, L., MacPherson, I., & Tombs, J. (2021). Impacts of Professionalization and Wellbeing Policies on Scottish Prison Workers. Frontiers in Sociology, 6, Article 757583. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.757583

Prison workers occupy a niche role. Balancing the care and welfare of prisoners while simultaneously restricting their freedoms is a stressful job, laced with danger, that occurs entirely within the bounded context of the prison. Here, wellbeing and... Read More about Impacts of Professionalization and Wellbeing Policies on Scottish Prison Workers.