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8The social contract of peer review revisited and reinforced: An idea to reduce the strain for reviewersBioessays 37 (5): 465-467. 2015.
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6Trading off accountability against professional survival? Or the consequences of Pareto's principle…Bioessays 38 (7): 587-587. 2016.
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17The mark of metabolism: Another nail in the coffin of nucleic‐acids‐first in the origin of life?Bioessays 36 (3): 221-222. 2014.
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5The evolution of photoreception and vision: Or the blind watchmaker gone mad?Bioessays 39 (7): 1700094. 2017.
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10Should We Rule Out Technologies Because They Are “Bad,” or Is That Just Politics?Bioessays 42 (5): 2000064. 2020.
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6Save Our Science? You could learn something from E. coli's SOS response!Bioessays 33 (10): 721-721. 2011.
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5Science is not just for research: More questions must be posed to the public …Bioessays 39 (10): 1700160. 2017.
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15Supporting Behaviour, Not Sex: The Women in Science Debate Re-Framed…Bioessays 40 (1): 1700230. 2018.
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9Return to Freud! Research on memes is needed to counter global crisesBioessays 42 (12): 2000283. 2020.
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8Predatory Preprint Servers Join Predatory Journals in the Paper Mill Industry…Bioessays 42 (11): 2000259. 2020.
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16Peroxisomes: A small step from mitochondria but a giant leap for eukaryotesBioessays 37 (2): 113-113. 2015.
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8On the state of scientific English and how to improve it – Part 7: Separating key concepts and qualificationsBioessays 36 (9): 809-809. 2014.
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13On the state of scientific English and how to improve it – Part 9Bioessays 37 (8): 831-831. 2015.
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6On the state of scientific English and how to improve it – Part 5Bioessays 36 (4): 331-331. 2014.
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20On the State of Scientific English and How to Improve it − Part 12: Keeping it Simple When Under Time Pressure…Bioessays 40 (12): 1800218. 2018.
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4On the state of scientific English and how to improve it – Part 10: There's no ‘drama’ in objective scienceBioessays 37 (10): 1039-1039. 2015.
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7More than mentoring: the importance of group culture for scientific integrityBioessays 31 (12): 1271-1272. 2009.
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1Make the Best of the Crisis Whilst it Lasts: Time to Think Like Never Before…Bioessays 42 (10): 2000239. 2020.
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116Maxims and thick ethical conceptsRatio 19 (2). 2006.I begin with Kant's notion of a maxim and consider the role which this notion plays in Kant's formulations of the fundamental categorical imperative. This raises the question of what a maxim is, and why there is not the same requirement for resolutions of other kinds to be universalizable. Drawing on Bernard Williams' notion of a thick ethical concept, I proffer an answer to this question which is intended neither in a spirit of simple exegesis nor as a straightforward exercise in moral philosop…Read more
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9Infantile Thinking Against a Childish Measure? Can Artificial Intelligence Help Knock Author Metrics into Shape?Bioessays 42 (6): 2000095. 2020.
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12Is it worth writing covering letters anymore? Yes, but not for the reason you'd imagineBioessays 43 (5): 2100085. 2021.
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy |