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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.

Causation in complex systems where human agency is in play (2023)
Journal Article
Byrne, D. (2024). Causation in complex systems where human agency is in play. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 27(3), 357-367. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2023.2173845

Conventional approaches to causation in the social sciences draw on approaches in the Philosophy of Science in which a causal force acts on cases and generates change in the form of events. This relies on just one of the Aristotelian conceptions of c... Read More about Causation in complex systems where human agency is in play.

The Philosophy of Joseph Priestley’s 1765 Timeline: Abstract Ideas, Time, and Human Progress (2023)
Journal Article
Thomas, E. (2023). The Philosophy of Joseph Priestley’s 1765 Timeline: Abstract Ideas, Time, and Human Progress. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 40(1), 25-58. https://doi.org/10.5406/21521026.40.1.03

In 1765, Joseph Priestley created what may be the world's first modern timeline, A Chart of Biography. This paper offers the first study of the philosophy underlying Priestley's timeline. It argues that Priestley was pushed towards representing times... Read More about The Philosophy of Joseph Priestley’s 1765 Timeline: Abstract Ideas, Time, and Human Progress.

Problems with evidence assessment in COVID-19 health policy impact evaluation: a systematic review of study design and evidence strength (2022)
Journal Article
Haber, N. A., Clarke-Deelder, E., Feller, A., Smith, E. R., Salomon, J. A., MacCormack-Gelles, B., Stone, E. M., Bolster-Foucault, C., Daw, J. R., Hatfield, L. A., Fry, C. E., Boyer, C. B., Ben-Michael, E., Joyce, C. M., Linas, B. S., Schmid, I., Au, E. H., Wieten, S. E., Jarrett, B., Axfors, C., …Stuart, E. A. (2022). Problems with evidence assessment in COVID-19 health policy impact evaluation: a systematic review of study design and evidence strength. BMJ Open, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053820

Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: an Overlap Strategy (2022)
Journal Article
Fraser, J. D., & Vickers, P. (online). Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: an Overlap Strategy. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, https://doi.org/10.1086/721635

The existence of multiple interpretations of quantum mechanics appears to pose a serious challenge for knowledge claims about the quantum domain. Hoefer (2020) argues that a scientific realist epistemology must be abandoned in this context, while Cal... Read More about Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: an Overlap Strategy.

The Future of Heritable Genome Editing (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pattinson, S. D. (2022, December). The Future of Heritable Genome Editing. Paper presented at 14th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law,, Porto, Portugal

Emerging forensic genetic technologies: Contested anticipations of legitimation, caution and social situatedness (2022)
Book Chapter
Lawless, C. J. (2022). Emerging forensic genetic technologies: Contested anticipations of legitimation, caution and social situatedness. In V. Toom, M. Wienroth, & A. M’charek (Eds.), Law, Practice and Politics of Forensic DNA Profiling: Forensic Genetics and their Technolegal Worlds. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429322358

This chapter sees the partially realised nature of these technologies as an opportunity rather than a problem. It utilises this opportunity to explore interpretations of emerging forensic DNA technologies to illuminate how they render orderings of va... Read More about Emerging forensic genetic technologies: Contested anticipations of legitimation, caution and social situatedness.

Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English (2022)
Journal Article
Oliver, M., & Higgins, S. (2023). Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 47, Article 101230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2022.101230

This paper draws upon a growing body of research emphasising the importance and prevalence of domain-specific practices in teaching and learning. Different disciplines have their own reasoning practices, conceptualised as reasoning styles, which are... Read More about Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English.

Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise (2022)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Aitken, S., Bacevic, J., Callard, F., Chung, K. D. (., Coleman, K. S., Hayden, R. F., Healy, S., Irwin, R. L., Jellis, T., Jukes, J., Khan, S., Marotta, S., Seitz, D. K., Snepvangers, K., Staples, A., Turner, C., Tse, J., Watson, M., & Wilkinson, E. (2023). Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), 117-142. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12494

In Part 1 of ‘Encountering Berlant’, we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter... Read More about Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise.

Sameness of Word (2022)
Journal Article
Miller, J. (2022). Sameness of Word. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 18(2), Article A2. https://doi.org/10.31820/ejap.18.2.2

Although the metaphysics of words remains a relatively understudied domain, one of the more discussed topics has been the question of how to account for the apparent sameness of words. Put one way, the question concerns what it is that makes two word... Read More about Sameness of Word.

Hyperintensionality and Ontological Categories (2022)
Journal Article
Miller, J. (online). Hyperintensionality and Ontological Categories. Erkenntnis, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00646-3

In this paper, I discuss how to distinguish between ontological categories and ordinary categories. Using an argument against van Inwagen’s proposed account of what makes a category ontological as a springboard, I argue that if ontological categories... Read More about Hyperintensionality and Ontological Categories.