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Philosophy of Biology

1. Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Science

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Scientific Explanation

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(2019) Shades of Grey: Granularity, Pragmatics, and Non-Causal Explanation. Perspectives on Science. (pdf)

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(2017) Symmetry breaking and the emergence of path-dependence. Synthese. (pdf)

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Natural Selection

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(under contract) Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism. Editors: Agathe du Crest, Martina Valković, André Ariew, Hugh Desmond, Philippe Huneman & Thomas A.C. Reydon. Springer

(forthcoming) The Generalized Environment. In: du Crest et al. (ed), Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism. Springer.

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(under review) The Fitness Commensurability Problem. With Grant Ramsey. 
 

(2021) Desmond, H. (2021) Adapting to Environmental Heterogeneity: Selection and Radiation. Biological Theory (pdf)

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(2018) Natural Selection: Deriving Causality from Stable Equilibrium. Erkenntnis. (pdf)

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Progress, Trends, and Evolutionary Laws

 

(2021) The Selectionist Rationale for Evolutionary Progress. Biology and Philosophy. DOI: 10.1007/s10539-021-09806-1

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(2018) Natural Selection, Plasticity, and the Rationale for Largest-Scale Trends. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science C. DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2018.04.002

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Organismic Agency

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(forthcoming) Sexual Selection as an Agential, not Selective Mechanism. In: Gayon, E., Huneman, P., Petit, V., Veuille, M. (eds). 150 Years of the Descent of Man. Springer.

 

(2022) The Integrated Information Theory of Agency. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. With Philippe Huneman. (pdf)

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(2021) Niche construction and teleology: organisms as agents and contributors in ecology, development, and evolution. Biology and Philosophy. with Bendik Aaby. (pdf)

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(2020) The Ontology of Organismic Agency: A Kantian Approach. In: Altobrando, A., Biasetti, P., Natural Born Monads: On the Metaphysics of Organisms and Human Individuals. Berlin: De Gruyter. With Philippe Huneman. (pdf)

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Human Nature, Human Success
 

(forthcoming) Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications. Oxford University Press. (With Grant Ramsey.)

 

(forthcoming) Generalized Evolutionary Success and Human Evolution. In: Desmond, H., & Ramsey, G. (eds), Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

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2. Bioethics and Philosophy of Technology

Human Enhancement

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(2023) Enhancement and Success: Beyond Techno-Libertarianism. In: Desmond, H., & Ramsey, G. (eds), Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (pdf)

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(2022) Personal welfare, Enhancement, and Cultural Evolution. American Journal for Bioethics (pdf)

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(2021) The Service View on Enhancement: A New Evolutionary Perspective. The Hastings Center Report. (pdf)

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(2020) Service and Status may Help Explain Perceived Ethical Acceptability. The American Journal of Bioethics – Neuroscience. (pdf

Ethics of Social media and Algorithms

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(2022) Reclaiming Privacy and Care in the Age of Social Media.  In: Jefferson, A., Palermos, O., Paris, P., Webber, J. Virtues and Values in a Changing World. Cambridge University Press. (pdf)

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(forthcoming) Engineering Trustworthiness in the Online Environment. In: Alfano, M., Collins, D., (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Trust. Rowman and Littlefield​

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Bioethics
Social Structure of Science

3. Trust in Science; Research Integrity

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Incentives and Trust 

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(2021) Incentivizing Replication is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust. Philosophy of Science. (pdf)

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(2021) Precision Medicine, Data, and the Anthropology of Social Status. American Journal for Bioethics. (pdf)

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Expert communication

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(under review) The Ethics of Expert Communication

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(2021) Expert Communication and the Self-Defeating Codes of Scientific Ethics. American Journal of Bioethics. (pdf)

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(2021) Towards an Ethics of Expert Communication. Maja: Magazine of the Young Academy. Special issue with 10 best essays for the Essay Prize “Anticipating life after the COVID-19 pandemic”

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Research Integrity
 

(2021) Research Integrity Codes of Conduct: Mapping the Divergences. Bioethics. With Kris Dierickx. (pdf)

Featured in Science
 

(2021) Trust and Professionalism in Science: Medical Codes as a Model for Scientific Negligence? BMC Biomedical Ethics. With Kris Dierickx. (pdf)

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(2020) Professionalism in Science: Competence, Autonomy, and Service. Science and Engineering Ethics. (pdf)

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Metaphilosophy 

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(under review) Why We Should Rethink Philosophical Professionalism

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