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Prediction, Understanding, and Medicine (2018)
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University Chaplaincy as Relational Presence: Navigating understandings of good and effective chaplaincy in UK universities (2023)
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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.
Can Robots Do Epidemiology? Machine Learning, Causal Inference, and Predicting the Outcomes of Public Health Interventions (2022)
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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.
For analytic bioethics (2008)
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Philosophy and preventive medicine (2012)
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Tobacco and epidemiology in Korea: old tricks, new answers? (2016)
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Health as a Secondary Property (2017)
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Models and muddles in the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
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Knowledge of the Quantum Domain: an Overlap Strategy (2022)
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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 Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education (2022)
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This article compares and contrasts two versions of the Education Endowment Foundation's (EEF) Teaching and Learning Toolkit (‘Toolkit’), a web-based summary of international evidence on teaching 3–18 year-olds. The Toolkit has localised versions in... Read More about The Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education.
There Are No Uninstantiated Words (2022)
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Kaplan ([1990]. “Words.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 64: 93–119; [2011]. “Words on Words.” The Journal of Philosophy 108 (9): 504–529) argues that there are no unspoken words. Hawthorne and Lepore ([2011]. “On Words.” The Journal of Philo... Read More about There Are No Uninstantiated Words.
Is HPS a valuable component of a STEM education? An empirical study of student interest in HPS courses within an undergraduate science curriculum (2022)
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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.
Gender and Pan-Species Democracy in the Anthropocene (2021)
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There are diverse historical trajectories in human societies’ relationships with the nonhuman world. While many small place-based groups have tried to retain egalitarian partnerships with other species and ecosystems, larger societies have made major... Read More about Gender and Pan-Species Democracy in the Anthropocene.
Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity (2021)
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This paper defends the need for evidential diversity and the mix of methods that that can in train require. The focus is on causal claims, especially ‘singular’ claims about the effects of causes in a specific setting—either what will happen or what... Read More about Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity.