PUBLICATIONS

Only academic publications; see full CV here

1. Historicity and Scientific Explanation

(2019) Shades of Grey: Granularity, Pragmatics, and Non-Causal Explanation. Perspectives on Science, 27(1): 68-87. DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00300

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

2. Philosophy of Biology & Philosophical Bioethics

Natural Selection

(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

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

(invited) 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.

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

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

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

Progress, Trends, and Evolutionary Laws

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

(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

Organismic Agency

(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.)

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.

Human Enhancement

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

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

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

3. Social Structure of Science; Social Epistemology

Incentives and Trust

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

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

Expert communication

(under review) Status Distrust towards Scientific Experts.

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

(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”

Research Integrity

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

Featured in Science

(2021) Trust and Professionalism in Science: Medical Codes as a Model for Scientific Negligence? BMC Biomedical Ethics. (With Kris Dierickx.) DOI: 10.1186/s12910-021-00610-w

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

Impact of social media and algorithms

(under review) Relational Trust and Social Media.

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

Metaphilosophy

(under review) Why We Should Rethink Philosophical Professionalism