2026

Books

Broadbent, Alex, and Pieter Streicher. Power, Knowledge, and Covid-19: The Making of a Scientific Orthodoxy. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003732495/power-knowledge-covid-19-alex-broadbent-pieter-streicher 

Fuller, Jonathan. 2026. The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-new-modern-medicine-9780190066147

Articles and Chapters

Reports, Working Papers, and Other

Cartwright, Nancy, Brendan Kelters, Eileen Munro, Likhwa Ncube, and John Pemberton. 2025. Can I Make This Policy Work Here? Better Theories of Change and Better Evidence Management for Better Policy Design, Better Policy Prediction Illustrated with a South African HIV/AIDS Policy Intervention. CHESS Working Papers 2026–01. Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS). https://cpemph.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/cwp_2026_01.pdf

2025

Books

Broadbent, Alex (ed.). 2025. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine. Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/61380

Dammann, Olaf. 2025. Uncertainty and Explanation in Medicine and the Health Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82271-1

Forbes, Graeme. 2025. The Growing-Block View: Philosophy of Time, Change and the Open Future. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Lalumera, Elisabetta. 2025. Health, Well-Being, and Quality of Life: A Philosophical Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-90414-1

Articles and Chapters

Broadbent, Alex. 2025. Explaining the facts before us: the challenge of causal inference. The British Medical Journal 391: r2615. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r2615

Broadbent, Alex. 2025. Was lockdown racist? Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 12: 20. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.7431

Dammann, Olaf. 2025. Epidemiological inferences. In: Alex Broadbent (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine, Oxford Handbooks (2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Sept. 2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197625835.013.0023

Fuller, Jonathan. 2025. Modern scientific medicine’s demarcation problem. In: Alex Broadbent (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine, Oxford Handbooks (2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Sept. 2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197625835.013.0035

Lohse, Simon. 2025. Reinforcement learning from human feedback in LLMs: whose culture, whose values, whose perspectives?. Philos. Technol. 38, 35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00861-0

Mercuri, Mathew DJ. 2025. Every problem is embedded in a greater whole. J Eval Clin Pract 31(1) e14139. doi: 10.1111/jep.14139

Mullard, Jordan CR. 2025. Addressing inequalities in long covid healthcare: a mixed-methods study on building inclusive services. Health Expect 28 (4) e70336. doi: 10.1111/hex.70336

Ncube, Likhwa. 2025. Rethinking the nature of medicine: limits of the inquiry thesis through the case of African traditional medicine. Theor Med Bioeth 46, 491–506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-025-09732-3

Ndasauka, Yamikani T. 2025. Autocentric Ubuntu and sexual-reproductive health rights in sub-saharan Africa. In: Olaitan, Z.M., Ojo, T.A., Maxwell, S. (eds) Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women in Africa and the Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96029-1_3 

Stegenga, Jacob. 2025. Causal inference from clinical experience. Philos Stud 182, 445–465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-024-02264-x

Streicher, Pieter, Alex Broadbent,  and Joel Hellewell. 2025. The need for methodological pluralism in epidemiological modelling. Global Epidemiology 9: 100177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloepi.2024.100177

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2025. 15 years on: Sam Harris’s moral landscape, a retrospective critique. Ethic@ Vol. 24: 1-31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2025.e103162

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2025. Complexity, akrasia, cognitive dissonance, and burindan’s ass. World Complexity Science Academy Journal 6(1): 1-17. DOI:10.46473/WCSAJ/20-01-2025/01

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2025. How Darwin can help post-structuralists maintain that apartheid was unconditionally unjust. J Ethics 29, 337–357 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-024-09495-4 

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2025. Perspectives and meta‑perspectives: context versus hierarchy in the epistemology of complex systems. Euro Jnl Phil Sci 15, 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-025-00641-9

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2025. The top-down nature of ontological inquiry: against pluralism about top-down and bottom-up approaches. Metaphilosophy 56 (1), 35-51. https://doi/10.1111/meta.12711  

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2025. Whewell’s fundamental antithesis: a lineage of influence. South African Journal of Philosophy 44 (1). https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-sajop_v44_n1_a55 

Varga, Somogy. 2025. A matter of standing: praise and blame with respect to health. J Ethics 29, 663–680. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-025-09515-x

Varga, Somogy. 2025. Concepts of health and disease: insights from experimental philosophy of medicine. Synthese 206, 219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-025-05280-4

Varga, Somogy. 2025. Is “dysfunction” a value-neutral concept? Philos Stud 182, 2313–2333. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-025-02359-z

Varga, Somogy. 2025. Medicine, pseudomedicine, and “folk medicine”. In: Alex Broadbent (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine, Oxford Handbooks (2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Sept. 2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197625835.013.0010

Reports, Working Papers, and Other

Cartwright, Nancy, and Eleonora Montuschi. 2025. Scientific collaboration: the very idea. CHESS Working Papers 2025–02. Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS). https://www.durham.ac.uk/media/durham-university/research-/research-centres/humanities-engaging-sci-and-soc-centre-for/CWP_2025_02.pdf 

Cartwright, Nancy, Brendan Kelters, Eileen Munro, and John Pemberton. 2025. Can I make this policy work here? Using evidence for better policy design, prediction and evaluation. CHESS Working Papers 2025–01. Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS). https://www.durham.ac.uk/media/durham-university/research-/research-centres/humanities-engaging-sci-and-soc-centre-for/CWP_2025_01.pdf

2024

Books

Varga, Somogy. 2024. Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry: A Philosophical Analysis. Cambridge University Press.https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009449977 

Articles and Chapters

Cartwright, Nancy. 2024. Reliability trumps truth. FILOZOFIA 79(10): 1069-1082. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2024.79.10.1

Fuller, Jonathan. 2024. Demarcating scientific medicine. Stud Hist Philos Sci 106, 177-185. DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.06.002

Mercuri, Mathew DJ. 2024. A longitudinal survey on Canadian emergency physician burnout. Ann Emerg Med 83(6): 576-584. DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.01.009

Mercuri, Mathew DJ. 2024. Associations between education policies and the geographic disposition of family physicians: a retrospective observational study of McMaster university education data. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 29(2): 641-657. DOI:10.1007/s10459-023-10273-4

Mercuri, Mathew DJ. 2024. Emergency physician gender and head computed tomography orders for older adults who have fallen. Academic Emergency Medicine 31(10): 955-1081. https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.14928 

Mercuri, Mathew DJ. 2024. Normative challenges in data governance: insights from global health research. Adv in Health Sci Educ 29, 1453–1461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-024-10351-1

Mullard, Jordan CR. 2024. ‘You’re just a guinea pig’: exploring the barriers and impacts of living with long covid‐19: a view from the undiagnosed. Sociology of Health and Illness 46: 1602-1625. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13795

Mullard, Jordan CR. 2024. Authenticity and recognition: theorising antiracist becomings and allyship in the time of covid-19 and black lives matter. Anthropological Theory 24(2): 111-135. https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996231193608

Mullard, Jordan CR. 2024. Impact of long covid on productivity and informal caregiving. Eur J Health Econ 25(7): 1095-1115. DOI: 10.1007/s10198-023-01653-z

Mullard, Jordan CR. 2024. Improving quality in adult long covid services: findings from the locomotion quality improvement collaborative. Clinical Medicine 24(5): 100237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinme.2024.100237

Mullard, Jordan CR. 2024. Long covid and health inequalities: what’s next for research and policy advocacy? Health Expect 27(5):e70047. DOI: 10.1111/hex.70047

Mullard, Jordan CR. 2024. Physical, cognitive, and social triggers of symptom fluctuations in people living with long covid: an intensive longitudinal cohort study. 

Ncube, Likhwa. 2024. Critical appraisal of the national peace and reconciliation commission on Gukurahundi. Artha – Journal of Social Sciences 23(1): 31-51. DOI:10.12724/ajss.68.2

Ncube, Likhwa. 2024. Critical unexplored actions by Zimbabwean political opposition. Artha – Journal of Social Sciences 23(3): 1-24. DOI:10.12724/ajss.70.1

Ncube, Likhwa. 2024. On the gukurahundi amnesty: what factors make an amnesty effective? IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review 12 (1):14-20.

Ncube, Likhwa. 2024. Values first, ‘following the science’ second, in epidemic management. IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review 12 (2):160-167.

Stegenga, Jacob. 2024. Justifying scientific progress. Philosophy of science, Vol. 91(3): 543-560. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.118

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2024. A beginner’s guide to crossing the road: towards an epistemology of successful action in complex systems. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 49(5): 460-475. https://doi.org/10.1177/03080188241232777

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2024. Grounding the selectionist explanation for the success of science in the external physical world. Found Sci 29, 885–904. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-023-09907-y

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2024. Stance pluralism, scientology, and the problem of relativism. Found Sci 29, 625–644. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-022-09882-w

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2024. Tricky truths: how should alethic pluralism accommodate racial truths?. Acta Anal 39, 335–357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12136-023-00572-1

Varga, Somogy. 2024. Body checking in anorexia nervosa: from inquiry to habit. Rev.Phil.Psych. 15, 705–722. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-023-00691-z

Varga, Somogy. 2024. Mental health promotion and the positive concept of health: navigating dilemmas. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 105, 32-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.03.002

Varga, Somogy. 2024. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and recalcitrant emotion: relocating the seat of irrationality. Philosophical Psychology 37(3): 658-683. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2066514

Varga, Somogy. 2024. Scientific understanding in biomedical research. Synthese 204, 66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04694-w

Varga, Somogy. 2024. Understanding in medicine. Erkenn 89, 3025–3049. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00665-8

Varga, Somogy. 2024. What is mental health and disorder? Philosophical implications from lay judgments. Synthese 203, 162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04555-6

Venkatapuram, Sidhar S. 2024. How to deliver person-centred care for people living with heart failure: a multi stakeholder interview study with patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals in Thailand. BMC Health Serv Res 24, 1570. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11922-z

2023

Books

Venkatapuram, Sridhar, and Alex Broadbent (eds.). 2023. Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Philosophy-of-Public-Health/Venkatapuram-Broadbent/p/book/9781032323879

Articles and Chapters

Broadbent, Alex. 2023. Intercultural medical disagreements: ebola vs. covid-19. In: Jansen, J., Auerbach, J. (eds) The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31913-6_8 

Mercuri, Mathew DJ. 2023. Evidence-based medicine and public health. In: Venkatapuram S, Broadbent A, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315675411 

Mercuri, Mathew DJ. 2023. Humans not heroes: Canadian emergency physician experiences during the early covid-19 pandemic. Emergency Medicine Journal: EMJ 40(2): 86-91. DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2022-212466

Mercuri, Mathew DJ. 2023. The impact of performance feedback reports on physician ordering behavior in the use of computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA). Emergency Radiology 30(1): 63-69. DOI: 10.1007/s10140-022-02100-x

Streicher, Pieter, and Alex Broadbent. 2023. Pandemic response strategies and threshold phenomena. Global Epidemiology 5: 10015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloepi.2023.100105

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2023. A pragmatist reboot of William Whewell’s theory of scientific. Contemporary Pragmatism, 20(3), 218-245. https://doi.org/10.1163/18758185-bja10068  

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2023. Collapsing the complicated/complex distinction: it’s complexity all the way down. Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, Vol. 21(1):1-17. DOI:10.7906/indecs.21.1.1

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2023. Stuart Kauffman’s metaphysics of the adjacent possible: a critique. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 48(1): 49-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2022.2125614 

van der Merwe, Ragnar R. 2023. Whewell’s hylomorphism as a metaphorical explanation for how mind and world merge. J Gen Philos Sci 54, 19–38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-021-09595-x

Varga, Somogy. 2023. Breathing in waves: understanding respiratory-brain coupling as a gradient of predictive oscillations. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, Article 105262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105262

Varga, Somogy. 2023. Freedom, moral responsibility, and the failure of universal defeat. Philosophical Issues 33(1): 252-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/phis.12246

Varga, Somogy. 2023. Non-dynamism and temporal disturbances. Synthese 202, 49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04253-9

Varga, Somogy. 2023. On the roles of false belief and recalcitrant fear in anorexia nervosa. Mind and Language 38(5): 1296-1313. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12454

Varga, Somogy. 2023. The aim of medicine. Sano centricity and the autonomy thesis. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 104(4): 720-745. https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12437

2022

Articles and Chapters

Broadbent, Alex, and Pieter Streicher. 2022. Can you lock down in a slum? And who would benefit if you tried? Difficult questions about epidemiology’s commitment to global health inequalities during Covid-19. Global Epidemiology 4: 100074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloepi.2022.100074

Broadbent, Alex, and Thomas Grote. 2022. Can robots do epidemiology? Machine learning, causal inference, and predicting the outcomes of public health interventions. Philosophy and Technology 35:14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00509-3