PUBLICATION LIST

Full CV: here

Edited Books

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

Peer-reviewed Articles​​

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

  • (2021) Precision Medicine, Data, and the Anthropology of Social Status. American Journal for Bioethics. DOI:10.1080/15265161.2021.1891345

  • (2021) Research Integrity Codes of Conduct: Mapping the Divergences. Bioethics. DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12851. (With Kris Dierickx.)

  • (2021) On the Ubiquity of Heterogeneity Adaptations. Biological Theory. DOI: 10.1007/s13752-021-00373-y

  • (2021) Expert Communication and the Self-Defeating Codes of Scientific Ethics. American Journal of Bioethics. DOI:10.1080/21507740.2020.1830874

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

  • (2020) Service and Status may Help Explain Perceived Ethical Acceptability. The American Journal of Bioethics – Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2020.1830874

  • (2020) Professionalism in Science: Competence, Autonomy, and Service. Science and Engineering Ethics, 26(3): 1287-1313. DOI: 10.1007/s11948-019-00143-x

·      (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

  • (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

·      (2018) Natural Selection: Deriving Causality from Stable Equilibrium. Erkenntnis. DOI: 10.1007/s10670-017-9889-z

  • (2017) Symmetry breaking and the emergence of path-dependence. Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1130-0
     

Book chapters 

  • (commissioned for 2021) Engineering Trust Online: Algorithms, Cognitive Biases, and the Role of Ethics. In: Alfano, M. (ed), The Moral Psychology of Trust. Rowman and Littlefield

  • (commissioned for 2021) The Generalized Environment. In: du Crest et al. (ed), Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism. Springer.

  • (commissioned for 2021) 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.

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

  • (forthcoming) 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.

  • (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.)

  •  (Public Philosophy)

  • (under contract) Relationships and Trust. (Relaties en Vertrouwen.) Pelckmans

  • (under contract) Inleiding tot vertrouwen: epistemologie, ethiek, wetenschap, en politiek. Antwerp: Letterwerk. 

Reference Works

  • (2017) Philosophy of Biology. Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (With Grant Ramsey.)

Articles for Philosophical Magazines or Bulletins

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

  • (2020). Weerbarstige ervaringen bij niet-biologische ouderschap. Podium voor Bioethiek. June 2020.

  • (2013). Waarom Bergson geen vitalist is. Filosofie, 23 (5), 18-24.

Invited Book Reviews

  • (2020) Moffett, Mark W. The Human Swarm:  How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall. Basic Books. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 95(4): 341. DOI: 10.1086/711784

  • (forthcoming) Ruse, Michael. On Purpose. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Reviewed for: Science and Education: Contributions from the History and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics.

Media pieces

Under Review

  • Fitness Commensurability Problem. Under review for Australasian Journal of Philosophy (with Grant Ramsey)

  • Relational Trust and Social Media. Under review for Philosophical Studies. 

  • Clinical Equipoise: Still the Gold Standard? Under review for the Journal of Medical Ethics. (with Charlemagne Folefac)

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

©2020 by Hugh Desmond.