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    Rationality: An Advanced Review
    WIREs Cognitive Science. 2013.
    A theory of rationality is a theory that evaluates instances of reasoning as rational, irrational, or (ir)rational to some degree. Theories can be categorized as rule-based or consequentialist. Rule-based theories say that rational reasoning accords with certain rules (e.g., of logic or probability). Consequentialist theories say that rational reasoning tends to produce good consequences. For instance, the reliabilist takes rationality to be reasoning that tends to produce mostly true beliefs. T…Read more
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    Diagnostic Prediction and Prognosis: Getting from Symptom to Treatment
    In and Tim Thornton Giovanni Stanghellini John Z. Sadler George Graham Richard G. T. Gipps Martin Davies K. W. M. Fulford (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry. pp. 1023-1046. 2013.
    This paper reviews the recent (post-DSM) history of subjective and semi-structured methods of psychiatric diagnosis, as well as evidence for the superiority of structured and computer-aided diagnostic techniques. While there is evidence that certain forms of therapy are effective for alleviating the psychiatric suffering, distress, and dysfunction associated with certain psychiatric disorders, this paper addresses some of the difficult methodological and ethical challenges of evaluating the effe…Read more
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    Epistemology for (Real) People
    In Kasper Lippertā€Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee & David Coady (eds.), A Companion to Applied Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.
    A person making normative judgments can do so from the perspective of a Judge or a Coach. If you're a Judge, you seek to assign responsibility. If you're a Coach, you seek to improve an agent's performance. While there is a place for being sometimes a Judge and sometimes a Coach, no one should always be a Judge. It is a small and mean person who only wags a finger and never lends a hand. The same is true for a normative discipline like epistemology. A good coach gives useful advice. Advice is us…Read more
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    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 20 (2). 2006.