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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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8Shakespeare Between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body PoliticsLexington Books. 2016.Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare’s political outlook by comparing some of the playwright’s best-known works to the works of Italian political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli and English social contract theorist Thomas Hobbes. This ultimately reveals the materialist principles that underpin Shakespeare’s imaginary states.
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8A twist in the FOXO tale: Edging closer to revealing the secrets of unlimited tissue renewalBioessays 35 (12): 1015-1016. 2013.
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8Predatory Preprint Servers Join Predatory Journals in the Paper Mill Industry…Bioessays 42 (11): 2000259. 2020.
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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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8If We Want a Lottery in Research Funding, Let's Split Our Bets, and Save Something for Later …Bioessays 40 (6): 1800080. 2018.
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7More than mentoring: the importance of group culture for scientific integrityBioessays 31 (12): 1271-1272. 2009.
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7Your Numbers Might Be Strong, but You Still Need Strength in NumbersBioessays 41 (8): 1900109. 2019.
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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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6Save Our Science? You could learn something from E. coli's SOS response!Bioessays 33 (10): 721-721. 2011.
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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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6Defeating Evolution, both Biological and Social: Can Environmentally Friendly Value Systems Adapt Quickly Enough?Bioessays 42 (2): 2000001. 2020.
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5Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy of MathematicsIn Hans-Johann Glock & John Hyman (eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein, Wiley-blackwell. 2017.The philosophy of mathematics was of colossal importance to Wittgenstein. Its problems had a peculiarly strong hold on him; and he seems to have thought that it was in addressing these problems that he produced his greatest work. However robust the distinction between the calculus and the surrounding prose, the prose may infect the calculus; or the prose may infect how we couch the calculus. Yet Wittgenstein's writings in the philosophy of mathematics stand in a curious relation to this self‐ass…Read more
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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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5What's in a title? A two‐step approach to optimisation for man and machineBioessays 32 (3): 183-184. 2010.
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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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4QuineIn Christopher Belshaw & Gary Kemp (eds.), 12 Modern Philosophers, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Carnap's Logical Positivism Quine's Naturalism The External/Internal Distinction and the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction The Indeterminacy of Translation Quine's Conception of Philosophy I: Metaphysics Quine's Conception of Philosophy II: Ontology Quine's Influence References.
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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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