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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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22Renewing the Senses: A Study of the Philosophy and Theology of the Spiritual LifePhilosophical Quarterly 64 (255): 356-358. 2014.Review of Mark Wynn's book, Renewing the Senses: A Study of the Philosophy and Theology of the Spiritual Life
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21Emotion, 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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16‘The Hermeneutic Problem of Psychiatry’ and the Co-Production of Meaning in Psychiatric HealthcareRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 94 103-131. 2023.‘The co-production of meaning’ is a popular, widely-used, but under-defined concept. To better understand the co-production of meaning, we shall attempt to develop an account of co-production through phenomenological psychopathology. Through Hans Georg Gadamer’s remarks on ‘the hermeneutic problem of psychiatry’, we distinguish kinds of contingent and intrinsic obstacles to 'co-production'. In calling attention to these obstacles, we problematise the concept of ‘co-production’ in public mental h…Read more
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16Epistemic Injustice in Medicine and HealthcareIn Kidd Ian James & Carel Havi (eds.), The Routledge Handbook to Epistemic Injustice, Routledge. pp. 336-346. 2017.We survey several ways in which the structures and norms of medicine and healthcare can generate epistemic injustice.
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15Life, "Technics", and the Decline of the WestThe Berlin Review of Books 00-00. 2017.An essay review of the Routledge Revival edition of Oswald Spengler, 'Man and Technics (1932)
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14Dean Rickles, The Ashgate Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Physics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 30 (3): 212-214. 2010.
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13Animals and Misanthropy by David E. Cooper (Routledge, 2018). ISBN 9781138295940Philosophy 98 (3): 407-411. 2023.
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13Narratives of Adversity and Wisdom in Ancient Ethical and Spiritual TextsJournal of Value Inquiry 53 (3): 459-461. 2019.
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12The Ambivalence of CynicismOpen for Debate. 2022.We should not abandon cynicism tout court nor think that the cynic is doomed to complacency or despair. Cynicism is a volatile quality that can become poisonous or explosive if handled too carelessly—but it can also be an effective sobering agent able to enliven our critical sensibilities and supply the energy we need to live well in a bad world.
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12Paul Feyerabend, Against Method. London and New York: Verso, 2010. Pp. xxxii+296. ISBN 1-84467-442-8. £10.24British Journal for the History of Science 44 (2): 311-312. 2011.
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12Višedimenzionalizam, otpor i demografski problemEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy 19 (1): 4-30. 2023.Linda Martín Alcoff i drugi naglasili su da filozofija kao disciplina pati od "demografskog problema". Upornost ovog problema djelomično je posljedica različitih oblika otpora nastojanjima da se riješi demografski problem. Takav otpor je složen i pojavljuje se u mnogim oblicima te se na njega može odgovoriti na različite načine. U ovom radu tvrdim da bi naši pokušaji objašnjenja i razumijevanja fenomena otpora trebali koristiti pluralističko objašnjenje koje, prema Quassimu Cassamu, nazivam više…Read more
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12Shénnóng and the Agriculturalist SchoolDaily Philosophy. 2022.An essay on the Classical Chinese philosophical 'School of the Tillers', an agrarian philosophy inspired by the legend of Shénnóng, the Divine Farmer. Themes include the celebration of pastoral life, the tensions between innocence and moral toil, and the influence of the School of the Tillers on the later Daoist tradition.
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10Paul Feyerabend, The Tyranny of Science, ed. Eric Oberheim. London: Polity, 2011. Pp. xii+153. ISBN 978-0-7456-5190-3. £12.95 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 44 (4): 576-577. 2011.
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9From Vices to Corruption to MisanthropyTheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 7 (2). 2022.The main part of the paper describes the deep connections between the concepts of vices, corruption, and misanthropy. I argue that the full significance of the concept of human vices or failings is only fully appreciated when it is connected to an account of the ways that our social practices and institutions are corrupting, in the sense of facilitating or encouraging the development and exercise of those failings. Moreover, reflection on failings and corruption can lead us to misanthropy, defin…Read more
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8Science 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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8The Contingency of Science and the Future of PhilosophyEssays in Philosophy 12 (2): 313-329. 2011.Contemporary metaphilosophical debates on the future of philosophy invariably include references to the natural sciences. This is wholly understandable given the cognitive and cultural authority of the sciences and their contributions to philosophical thought and practice. However such appeals to the sciences should be moderated by reflections on contingency of sciences. Using the work of contemporary historians and philosophers of science, I argue that an awareness of the radical contingency of…Read more
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7Suffering as Transformative ExperienceIn David Bain, Michael S. Brady & Jennifer Corns (eds.), The Philosophy of Suffering, Routledge. pp. 165-179. 2020.In this chapter we suggest that many experiences of suffering can be further illuminated as forms of transformative experience, using the term coined by L.A. Paul. Such suffering experiences arise from the vulnerability, dependence, and affliction intrinsic to the human condition. Such features can create a variety of positively, negatively, and ambivalently valanced forms of epistemically and personally transformative experiences, as we detail here. We argue that the productive element of suffe…Read more
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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
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6Values and aims of higher education: The case of Ernst Jünger, 'total mobilisation', and higher educationDiscourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies 10 (1): 225-238. 2010.
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6Illness as Transformative ExperienceThe Lancet 388. 2017.We propose that certain forms of chronic illness can be transformative experiences, in the sense described by L.A. Paul.
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5A Case for an Historical Vice EpistemologyHumana.Mente - Journal of Philosophical Studies 14 (39): 69-86. 2021.This paper aims to encourage and guide greater engagement between contemporary vice epistemology and the work of intellectual and social historians. My view is that studies of the nature and significance of epistemic vices can be enriched by engaging with the methods and results of the historians who share our interest in epistemic character and its failings. Naturally, enrichment incurs certain costs, including complications about the nature, significance, and identity of epistemic vices as the…Read more
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5Pluralism and the Problem of Reality in the Later Philosophy of Paul FeyerabendDissertation, Durham University. 2010.
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4The Routledge Handbook on Epistemic Injustice (edited book)Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2016.This outstanding reference source to epistemic injustice is the first collection of its kind. Over thirty chapters address topics such as testimonial and hermeneutic injustice and virtue epistemology, objectivity and objectification, implicit bias, gender and race.
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2Reappraising FeyerabendStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 57 00-000. 2016.This volume is devoted to a reappraisal of the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend. It has four aims. The first is to reassess his already well-known work from the 1960s and 1970s in light of contemporary developments in the history and philosophy of science. The second is to explore themes in his neglected later work, including recently published and previously unavailable writings. The third is to assess the contributions that Feyerabend can make to contemporary debate, on topics such as perspectivi…Read more
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2Pandemic Transformative ExperienceThe Philosophers’ Magazine 90 (24-31). 2020.We argue that pandemic and lockdown can be usefully interpreted as transformative experiences, albeit of a sort with interestingly different features to those discussed by L.A. Paul.
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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.