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604Changing Working Environments in Philosophy: Reflections from a Case StudyPhilosophy of Science. forthcoming.There is an "under-representation problem” in philosophy departments and journals. Empirical data suggest that while we have seen some improvements since the 1990s, the rate of change has slowed down. Some posit that philosophy has disciplinary norms making it uniquely resistant to change (Antony and Cudd 2012; Dotson 2012; Hassoun et al. 2022). In this paper, we present results from an empirical case study of a philosophy department that achieved and maintained male-female gender parity among i…Read more
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122The Journey from Discovery to Scientific Change: Scientific Communities, Shared Models, and Specialised VocabularyInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 31 (1): 47-67. 2017.Scientific communities as social groupings and the role that such communities play in scientific change and the production of scientific knowledge is currently under debate. I examine theory change as a complex social interaction among individual scientists and the scientific community, and argue that individuals will be motivated to adopt a more radical or innovative attitude when confronted with striking similarities between model systems and a more robust understanding of specialised vocabula…Read more
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1A way forward for citizen science : taking advice from a madmanIn Karim Bschir & Jamie Shaw (eds.), Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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