PUBLICATION LIST
Full CV: here
Updated on: November 13, 2020
a. Books
[1] (2021) Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications. Oxford University Press. (With Grant Ramsey.)
[2] (2021) Relationships and Trust: how to find a path today. (Relaties en Vertrouwen: hoe vandaag een pad te vinden.) Antwerp: Polis
[3] (2022) Inleiding tot vertrouwen: epistemologie, ethiek, wetenschap, en politiek. Antwerp: Letterwerk.
b. Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
[4] (accepted) Research Integrity Codes of Conduct: Mapping the Divergences. Bioethics.
[5] (accepted) Expert Communication and the Self-Defeating Codes of Scientific Ethics. American Journal of
Bioethics. DOI:10.1080/21507740.2020.1830874
[6] (accepted) Incentivizing Replication is Insufficient to Safeguard Default Trust. Philosophy of Science.
[7] (accepted) The Service View on Enhancement: A New Evolutionary Perspective. The Hastings Center Report.
[8] (accepted) On the Ubiquity of Heterogeneity Adaptations. Biological Theory.
[9] (accepted) Service and Status may Help Explain Perceived Ethical Acceptability. The American Journal of Bioethics – Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2020.1830874
[10] (2021) Enhancement and Success: Beyond Techno-Libertarianism. In: Desmond, H., & Ramsey, G. (eds), Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[11] (2021) Generalized Evolutionary Success and Human Evolution: An Overview. In: Desmond, H., & Ramsey, G. (eds), Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[12] (2020) Professionalism in Science: Competence, Autonomy, and Service. Science and Engineering Ethics. 27 pages. DOI: 10.1007/s11948-019-00143-x
[13] (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.)
[14] (2019) Shades of Grey: Granularity, Pragmatics, and Non-Causal Explanation. Perspectives on Science (MIT Press), 27(1): 68-87. DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00300
[15] (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
[16] (2018) Natural Selection: Deriving Causality from Stable Equilibrium. Erkenntnis. DOI: 10.1007/s10670-017-9889-z
[17] (2017) Symmetry breaking and the emergence of path-dependence. Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1130-0
d. Reference Works
[18] (2017) Philosophy of Biology. Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (With Grant Ramsey.)
e. Articles for Philosophical Magazines or Bulletins
[19] (2020). Weerbarstige ervaringen bij niet-biologische ouderschap. Podium voor Bioethiek. June 2020.
[20] (2013). Waarom Bergson geen vitalist is. Filosofie, 23 (5), 18-24.
f. Invited Book Reviews
[21] (2020) Ruse, Michael. On Purpose. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Reviewed for: Science and Education: Contributions from the History and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics.
[22] (2020) Moffett, Mark W. The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall. Basic Books. Reviewed for: The Quarterly Review of Biology.
g. Media pieces
[23] (2018) It’s not a coincidence that monogamous marriage is a huge success (Het monogaam huwelijk is niet toevallig een enorm success) De Standaard (June 28, 2018) URL:
[24] (2017) Why scientific research increasingly resembles Tinder (Hoe wetenschappelijk onderzoek steeds meer op Tinder lijkt) Knack (May 26, 2017) URL: http://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/hoe-wetenschappelijk-onderzoek-steeds-meer-op-tinder-lijkt/article-opinion-857859.html
[25] (2017) Evolution: a big mess? Campuskrant KU Leuven. URL:
[26] (2013) Porno is junkfood van de seksualiteit. De Standaard. URL: http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20130729_00674566