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22Was Sir William Crookes epistemically virtuous?Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 48 67-74. 2014.
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1Oswald SpenglerIn Gregory Claey (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Modern Political Thought, Cq Press. 2013.I provide an account of the political and philosophical thought of Oswald Spengler.
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10Science and the Self: Animals, Evolution, and Ethics: Essays in Honour of Mary Midgley (edited book)Routledge. 2015.Mary Midgley is one of the most important moral philosophers working today. Over the last thirty years, her writings have informed debates concerning animals, the environment and evolutionary theory. The invited essays in this volume offer critical reflections upon Midgley’s work and further developments of her ideas. The contributors include many of the leading commentators on her work, including distinguished figures from the disciplines of philosophy, biology, and ethology. The range of topic…Read more
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22Emotion, religious practice, and cosmopolitan secularismReligious Studies (2): 1-18. 2013.Philip Kitcher has recently proposed a form of which he suggests could enable the members of a future secular society to continue to access and benefit from the moral and existential resources of the world's religions. I criticize this proposal by appeal to contemporary work on the role of emotion and practice in religious commitment. Using the work of John Cottingham and Mark Wynn, two objections are offered to the cosmopolitan secularists' claim that the moral resources of a religion could be …Read more
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113Can Illness Be Edifying?Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 55 (5): 496-520. 2012.Abstract Havi Carel has recently argued that one can be ill and happy. An ill person can ?positively respond? to illness by cultivating ?adaptability? and ?creativity?. I propose that Carel's claim can be augmented by connecting it with virtue ethics. The positive responses which Carel describes are best understood as the cultivation of virtues, and this adds a significant moral aspect to coping with illness. I then defend this claim against two sets of objections and conclude that interpreting …Read more
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148Epistemic Injustice in PsychiatryPsychiatry Bulletin 41. 2017.Epistemic injustice is a harm done to a person in their capacity as an epistemic subject by undermining her capacity to engage in epistemic practices such as giving knowledge to others or making sense of one’s experiences. It has been argued that those who suffer from medical conditions are more vulnerable to epistemic injustice than the healthy. This paper claims that people with mental disorders are even more vulnerable to epistemic injustice than those with somatic illnesses. Two kinds of con…Read more
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425Reawakening to Wonder: Wittgenstein, Feyerabend, and ScientismIn Jonathan Beale & Ian James Kidd (eds.), Wittgenstein and Scientism, Routledge. pp. 101-115. 2018.My aim in this chapter is to reconstruct Feyerabend’s anti-scientism by comparing it with the similar critiques of one of his main philosophical influences – Ludwig Wittgenstein. I argue that they share a common conception of scientism that gathers around a concern that it erodes a sense of wonder or mystery required for a full appreciation of human existence – a sense that Feyerabend, like Wittgenstein, characterised in terms of the ‘mystical’.
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6The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789–1914 (review)Annals of Science 70 (1): 101-104. 2013.No abstract