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    Expertise in evidence-based medicine: a tale of three models
    Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 13 2. 2018.
    BackgroundExpertise has been a contentious concept in Evidence-Based Medicine. Especially in the early days of the movement, expertise was taken to be exactly what EBM was rebelling against—the authoritarian pronouncements about “best” interventions dutifully learned in medical schools, sometimes with dire consequences. Since then, some proponents of EBM have tried various ways of reincorporating the idea of expertise into EBM, with mixed results. However, questions remain. Is expertise evidence…Read more
  • Book Review (review)
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 89 (C): 299-300. 2021.
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    No Escalation of Treatment: Moving Beyond the Withholding/withdrawing Debate
    with Elizabeth W. Dzeng, Jacob A. Blythe, and Jason N. Batten
    American Journal of Bioethics 19 (3): 63-65. 2019.
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    My doctoral project is a study of epistemological and ethical issues in Evidence-Based Medicine, a movement in medicine which emphasizes the use of randomized controlled trials. Much of the research on EBM suggests that, for a large part of the movement's history, EBM considered expertise, mechanisms, and values to be forces contrary to its goals and has sought to remove them, both from medical research and from the clinical encounter. I argue, however, that expertise, mechanisms and values have…Read more
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    Informed Consent: A Matter of Aspiration Since 1966
    with Jacob Blythe and David Magnus
    American Journal of Bioethics 19 (5): 3-5. 2019.
    Volume 19, Issue 5, May 2019, Page 3-5.
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    Resource Allocation in COVID-19 Research: Which Trials? Which Patients?
    with Alyssa Burgart and Mildred Cho
    American Journal of Bioethics 20 (7): 86-88. 2020.
    Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 86-88.
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    Mechanisms, laws and explanation
    European Journal for Philosophy of Science 10 (3): 1-19. 2020.
    Mechanisms are now taken widely in philosophy of science to provide one of modern science’s basic explanatory devices. This has raised lively debate concerning the relationship between mechanisms, laws and explanation. This paper focuses on cases where a mechanism gives rise to a ceteris paribus law, addressing two inter-related questions: What kind of explanation is involved? and What is going on in the world when mechanism M affords behavior B described in a ceteris paribus law? We explore var…Read more
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    The State of Teacher Training in Philosophy
    with David W. Concepción, Melinda Messineo, and Catherine Homan
    Teaching Philosophy 39 (1): 1-24. 2016.
    This paper explores the state of teacher training in philosophy graduate programs in the English-speaking world. Do philosophy graduate programs offer training regarding teaching? If so, what is the nature of the training that is offered? Who offers it? How valuable is it? We conclude that philosophers want more and better teaching training, and that collectively we know how to deliver and support it.
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    Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Public Health
    with Nicole Martinez-Martin, David Magnus, and Mildred K. Cho
    Hastings Center Report 50 (3): 43-46. 2020.
    Digital contact tracing, in combination with widespread testing, has been a focal point for many plans to “reopen” economies while containing the spread of Covid‐19. Most digital contact tracing projects in the United States and Europe have prioritized privacy protections in the form of local storage of data on smartphones and the deidentification of information. However, in the prioritization of privacy in this narrow form, there is not sufficient attention given to weighing ethical trade‐offs …Read more