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View article: Empowering Patient Autonomy: The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Scaffolding Informed Consent in Medical Practice
Empowering Patient Autonomy: The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Scaffolding Informed Consent in Medical Practice Open
The principle of (respect for) patient autonomy has traditionally emphasized independence in medical decision‐making, reflecting a broader commitment to epistemic individualism. However, recent philosophical work has challenged this view, …
Psychedelics beyond medicine: Treatment, enhancement, hype, consent, and the limits of medicalization Open
The current revival of interest in classic psychedelics and other psychoactives such as ketamine MDMA, coupled with changes to their regulatory status in many jurisdictions, necessitates rigorous ethical guidelines both within and beyond c…
Being Rational about Radical Environmentalism: A Response to Simpson and Handfield Open
Robert Simpson and Toby Handfield recently argued in this journal that my epistemic environmentalism is too radical. It implausibly collapses the distinction between rational response to evidence and group epistemic success and – on the mi…
Do people sincerely believe conspiracy theories that they endorse? Open
Survey data are widely used to estimate the prevalence of belief in conspiracy theories and to test hypotheses about the correlates, causes, and consequences of these beliefs. However, concerns have been raised about how often endorsement …
View article: Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood
Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood Open
Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the individual disposition to perceive and react…
View article: Community attitudes towards advancing climate justice with climate aid
Community attitudes towards advancing climate justice with climate aid Open
Research on support for climate policies has predominantly focused on support for mitigation policies. Research remains scarce on public support for climate aid policy (i.e., adaptation policies that direct support to those most affected b…
View article: Do people sincerely believe conspiracy theories that they endorse?
Do people sincerely believe conspiracy theories that they endorse? Open
Survey data are widely used to estimate the prevalence of belief in conspiracy theories and to test hypotheses about the correlates, causes, and consequences of these beliefs. However, concerns have been raised about how often endorsement …
View article: Victims of conspiracies? An examination of the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and dispositional individual victimhood
Victims of conspiracies? An examination of the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and dispositional individual victimhood Open
Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the individual disposition to perceive and react…
Anticipatory solastalgia in the Antipodes: Evidence of future-oriented distress about environmental change in Australia and New Zealand Open
Introduction: Lived experience of negative environmental change can evoke distress called ‘solastalgia’. Worldwide, people are reporting emotional challenges relating to awareness of current and continued environmental decline, even withou…
Scaffolding informed consent Open
The principle of respecting patient autonomy underpins the concept and practice of informed consent. Yet current approaches to consent often ignore the ways in which the exercise of autonomy is deeply epistemically dependent. In this paper…
View article: Development of a novel methodology for ascertaining scientific opinion and extent of agreement
Development of a novel methodology for ascertaining scientific opinion and extent of agreement Open
We take up the challenge of developing an international network with capacity to survey the world’s scientists on an ongoing basis, providing rich datasets regarding the opinions of scientists and scientific sub-communities, both at a time…
View article: Registered Replication Report: A Large Multilab Cross-Cultural Conceptual Replication of Turri et al. (2015)
Registered Replication Report: A Large Multilab Cross-Cultural Conceptual Replication of Turri et al. (2015) Open
According to the justified true belief (JTB) account of knowledge, people can truly know something only if they have a belief that is both justified and true (i.e., knowledge is JTB). This account was challenged by Gettier, who argued that…
Do people sincerely believe conspiracy theories that they endorse? Open
Surveys are regularly used to estimate the prevalence of belief in conspiracy theories and test hypotheses about causes and consequences of these beliefs. In such research, it is typically assumed that belief reports are sincere. However, …
Do people sincerely believe conspiracy theories that they endorse? Open
Survey data are routinely used to estimate the prevalence of belief in conspiracy theories and to test hypotheses about the correlates, causes, and consequences of these beliefs. However, concerns have been raised about whether people who …
Believing in Shmeliefs Open
People report believing weird things: that the Earth is flat, that senior Democrats are subjecting kidnapped children to abuse, and so on. How can people possibly believe things like this? Some philosophers have recently argued for a surpr…
Introduction Open
This opening chapter sets out the objectives and intentions of the book. It summarises the central tenets and key points that will be made in relation to the liabilities of insolvency practitioners, as well as providing an outline of the f…
Index Open
This thoroughly revised second edition provides a clear overview of the functions and liabilities of insolvency practitioners (IPs). It considers the circumstances in which IPs are appointed, their duties and their powers, before offering …
View article: A Response to a Comment on Hall et al. (2024)
A Response to a Comment on Hall et al. (2024) Open
In their replication of Turri et al. (2015; Experiment 1), Hall et al. (2024) identified a key condition difference that was not observed in the original experiment. In their commentary, Buckwalter and Friedman (2024) posited that the evid…
Responsibility is not required for authorship Open
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) maintains that AIs (artificial intelligences) cannot be authors of academic papers, because they are unable to take responsibility for them. COPE appears to have the answerability sense of respons…
Responsibility for Ill-Health and Lifestyle Open
Whether agents are morally responsible for their need for scarce resources is a difficult and fraught issue. In this chapter, I aim to explore some unappreciated difficulties for the attribution of moral responsibility for needs that arise…
Introduction: Responsibility and Health Care Open
This introductory chapter offers an overview of the various ways that responsibility may be relevant to health care, in order to situate the chapters in this volume in their broader context. The chapter begins by outlining relevant concept…
Consciousness Ain’t All That Open
Most philosophers think that phenomenal consciousness underlies, or at any rate makes a large contribution, to moral considerability. This paper argues that many such accounts invoke question-begging arguments. Moreover, they’re unable to …