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Resistance to Narratives of the COVID-19 Pandemic as an Act of God (2021)
Journal Article
Kamwendo, Z. T. (2021). Resistance to Narratives of the COVID-19 Pandemic as an Act of God. Zygon, 56(4), 1110-1129. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12732

This article examines the views of 12 bishops of the Church of England in understanding the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of divine action. The most consistently mentioned unhelpful narratives hinge on an understanding of the pandemic as an... Read More about Resistance to Narratives of the COVID-19 Pandemic as an Act of God.

An excess of meaning : conceptual over-interpretation in confabulation and schizophrenia (2020)
Journal Article
Bergamin, J. A. (2020). An excess of meaning : conceptual over-interpretation in confabulation and schizophrenia. Topoi, 39, 163-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-018-9609-6

I argue that ordinary (non-pathological) confabulation is a side-effect of an interpretive faculty that makes sense of the world by rationalising our experience within the context of a personal and cultural narrative. However, I argue that a hyperact... Read More about An excess of meaning : conceptual over-interpretation in confabulation and schizophrenia.

Does archaeology stink? detecting smell in the past using headspace sampling techniques (2020)
Journal Article
Malik, R. (2021). Does archaeology stink? detecting smell in the past using headspace sampling techniques. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 25(2), 273-296. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-020-00552-w

Smell is a language, communicative and interpretive. Firmly embedded in the physical, social, emotional, and semantic context, odor emanates as existential expression that is integral and idiosyncratic to human culture, behaviors, and practices. Adva... Read More about Does archaeology stink? detecting smell in the past using headspace sampling techniques.

Arguing to theism from consciousness (2020)
Journal Article
Page, B. (2020). Arguing to theism from consciousness. Faith and Philosophy, 37(3), 336-362. https://doi.org/10.37977/faithphil.2020.37.3.5

I provide an argument from consciousness for God’s existence. I first give a form of the argument which ultimately, I think is difficult to evaluate. As such I move on to provide what I take to be a stronger argument, where I claim that consciousness... Read More about Arguing to theism from consciousness.

Getting serious about shared features (2020)
Journal Article
Khosrowi, D. (2020). Getting serious about shared features. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 71(2), 523-546. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy029

In Simulation and Similarity, Michael Weisberg offers a similarity-based account of the model–world relation, which is the relation in virtue of which successful models are successful. Weisberg’s main idea is that models are similar to targets in vir... Read More about Getting serious about shared features.

A survey of multi-access edge computing in 5G and beyond : fundamentals, technology integration, and state-of-the-art (2020)
Journal Article
Pham, Q., Fang, F., Ha, V. N., Piran, M. J., Le, M., Le, L. B., …Ding, Z. (2020). A survey of multi-access edge computing in 5G and beyond : fundamentals, technology integration, and state-of-the-art. IEEE Access, 8, 116974-117017. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3001277

Driven by the emergence of new compute-intensive applications and the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT), it is foreseen that the emerging 5G network will face an unprecedented increase in traffic volume and computation demands. However, end user... Read More about A survey of multi-access edge computing in 5G and beyond : fundamentals, technology integration, and state-of-the-art.

A conciliatory answer to the paradox of the ravens (2020)
Journal Article
Peden, W. (2020). A conciliatory answer to the paradox of the ravens. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 51(1), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-019-09485-3

In the Paradox of the Ravens, a set of otherwise intuitive claims about evidence seems to be inconsistent. Most attempts at answering the paradox involve rejecting a member of the set, which seems to require a conflict either with commonsense intuiti... Read More about A conciliatory answer to the paradox of the ravens.

Meeting the evil god challenge (2020)
Journal Article
Page, B., & Baker-Hytch, M. (2020). Meeting the evil god challenge. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 101(3), 489-514. https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12304

The evil god challenge is an argumentative strategy that has been pursued by a number of philosophers in recent years. It is apt to be understood as a parody argument: a wholly evil, omnipotent, and omniscient God is absurd, as both theists and athei... Read More about Meeting the evil god challenge.

Bar modelling and autism – sufficient or necessary in problem solving? (2019)
Book Chapter
Thompson, S. (2019). Bar modelling and autism – sufficient or necessary in problem solving?. In X. Shao (Ed.), Imagining Better Education: Conference Proceedings 2018 (213-225). Durham University, School of Education

A significant driver for curriculum reform in England is based on performance in international comparative assessments. One consequence of this, is the rise in the use of the bar model, which is embedded within the Singapore mathematics curriculum, i... Read More about Bar modelling and autism – sufficient or necessary in problem solving?.

Neurotypical interventions : a neurodiverse approach to school-based social communication support (2019)
Book Chapter
Axbey, H. (2019). Neurotypical interventions : a neurodiverse approach to school-based social communication support. In X. Shao (Ed.), Imagining Better Education: Conference Proceedings 2018 (22-30). Durham University, School of Education

Working within a neurodiversity paradigm, this project will investigate potential differences in how autistic and neurotypical (NT) children interact with each other (A-A and NT-NT), and between-groups (A-NT). It will also consider whether autistic a... Read More about Neurotypical interventions : a neurodiverse approach to school-based social communication support.

Extrapolation of causal effects – hopes, assumptions, and the extrapolator’s circle (2019)
Journal Article
Khosrowi, D. (2019). Extrapolation of causal effects – hopes, assumptions, and the extrapolator’s circle. Journal of Economic Methodology, 26(1), 45-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2018.1561078

I consider recent strategies proposed by econometricians for extrapolating causal effects from experimental to target populations. I argue that these strategies fall prey to the extrapolator’s circle: they require so much knowledge about the target p... Read More about Extrapolation of causal effects – hopes, assumptions, and the extrapolator’s circle.

How long is now? A new perspective on the specious present (2019)
Journal Article
Roselli, A. (2019). How long is now? A new perspective on the specious present. Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy, 10(49), 119-140. https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2018-0009

What is the Specious Present? Which is its duration? And why, ultimately, do we need it to figure in our phenomenological account of temporal perception? In this paper, after introducing the role of the Specious Present in the main models that accoun... Read More about How long is now? A new perspective on the specious present.

The effects of solvent extraction on nanoporosity of marine-continental coal and mudstone (2019)
Journal Article
Qi, Y., Ju, Y., Cai, J., Gao, Y., Zhu, H., Hunag, C., …Chen, W. (2019). The effects of solvent extraction on nanoporosity of marine-continental coal and mudstone. Fuel, 235, 72-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2018.07.083

Coal and organic-rich mudstone develop massive nanopores, which control the storage of adsorbed and free gas, as well as fluid flows. Generation and retention of bitumen and hydrocarbons of oil window reservoirs add more uncertainty to the nanoporosi... Read More about The effects of solvent extraction on nanoporosity of marine-continental coal and mudstone.

Wherein lies the debate? Concerning whether God is a person (2018)
Journal Article
Page, B. T. (2018). Wherein lies the debate? Concerning whether God is a person. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 85(3), 297-317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-018-9694-x

Within contemporary philosophy of religion there are three main ways in which God is conceptualised in relation to personhood: (1) God is a person and so personal (PP). (2) God is non-personal, and so is not a person (NPNP). (3) God is a personal non... Read More about Wherein lies the debate? Concerning whether God is a person.