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Skelton, Anthony

Book

Sidgwick's Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021).

(with C. Weijer eds) . Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Articles

“Overriding Adolescent Refusals of Treatment" (with Lisa Forsberg & Isra Black), Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (forthcoming). 

" , " (with Lisa Forsberg). In  The Ethics of Pandemics , ed. Meredith Celene Schwartz (Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2020), 131-134. 

" . " In  Kantian and Sidgwickian Ethics: The Cosmos of Duty Above and the Moral Law Within,  eds. Tyler Paytas & Tim Henning (New York: Routledge, 2020), 13-39.

" , " (with Lisa Forsberg). In  Canadian Journal of Philosophy 50 (2020), 322-338 .

"The Ethical Principles of Effective Altruism". In  Journal of Global Ethics 12 (2):137-146 (2016).

Chapters

"Late Utilitarian Moral Theory and Its Development: Sidgwick, Moore". In J. A. Shand (ed.), A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 281-310 (2019).

"Children and Wellbeing". In Anca Gheaus, Gideon Calder & Jurgen De Wispelaere (eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 90-100 (2018).

Smeenk, Chris

Book

 (co-editor, with E. Schliesser). Oxford University Press.  (Several entries published online, expected publication in fall 2021.)

Articles

“Determinism and General Relativity,” with Christian Wüthrich.  Accepted in Philosophy of Science, preprint .

"Validating the Universe in a Box," with Sarah C. Gallagher. Philosophy of Science 87 (5):1221-1233 (2020).

"Q.e.D., Qed" (with A. Koberinski). In Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 71:1-13 (2020).

"Some reflections on the structure of cosmological knowledge". In Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 71:220-231 (2020).

"The Cosmos As Involving Local Laws and Inconceivable without Them" (with Y. Benétreau-Dupin). In The Monist 100 (3):357-372 (2017).

Chapter

“Gaining Access to the Early Universe,” in R. Dawid, K. ‘Thebault, and R. Darshati (eds.), Why Trust ŒTheory? Epistemology of Fundamental Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 315-338.

"Philosophical Geometers and Geometrical Philosophers". In B. Hill, G. Gorham, E. Slowik & C. Kenneth Waters (eds.), The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 308-338 (2016).

Stainton, Robert

Books

 (Springer, 2018).

 (with M. Cameron & B. Hill eds.). Springer, 2017.

(with M. Cameron eds.). Oxford University Press, 2015.

Articles

"Slurs and register: A case study in meaning pluralism," with Diaz‐Legaspe, Justina and Liu, Chang. Mind and Language 35 (2):156-182 (2020).

"Emociones, ofensa y registro sociolingüístico: el caso de los “usos distantes” de los términos discriminatorios", (with J. Diaz Legaspe). In Critica 51 (153):3-29 (2020).

"Re-reading Anscombe on ‘I’". In Canadian Journal of Philosophy 49 (1):70-93 (2019).

"What Distinguishes Assertion?". In Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 38:33-37, (2018).

"An Anscombean Reference for ‘I’?" (with A. Botterell). In Croatian Journal of Philosophy 18 (3):343-361 (2018).

"Logical Form and the Vernacular Revisited" (with A. Botterell). In Mind and Language 32 (4):495-522 (2017).

Sullivan, Jackie

Articles

"Understanding Stability in Cognitive Neuroscience Through Hacking’s Lens." Philosophical Inquiries.

"New Frontiers in Translational Research: Touchscreens, Open Science, and The Mouse Translational Research Accelerator Platform (MouseTRAP)," with Julie R. Dumont, Sara Memar, Miguel Skirzewski, Jinxia Wan, Maryam H. Mofrad, Hassam Zafar Ansari, Yulong Li, Lyle Muller, Vania F. Prado, Marco A.M. Prado, Lisa M. Saksida, Timothy J. Bussey. Genes, Brain and Behavior (2021).

"Sensory inflow manipulation induces learning-like phenomena in motor behavior," with Samuele Contemori, Cristina V Dieni, Aldo Ferraresi, Chiara Occhigrossi, Francesco Calabrese, Vito E Pettorossi, Andrea Biscarini, Roberto Panichi. European journal of applied physiology 120: 811-828 (2020).

“Classification, Kinds, Taxonomic Stability, and Conceptual Change” (with J. Mattu). In Aggression and Violent Behavior(2020).

"Understanding Crime: A Mutilevel Approach" (with D. Ward). In Psychology, Crime & Law, 25(6): 709-711 (2020).

"Achieving Cumulative Progress in Understanding Crime: Some Insights from the Philosophy of Science". In Psychology, Crime & Law, 25(6): 561-576 (2019)

"Optogenetics, Pluralism and Progress". In Philosophy of Science 85 (00):1090-1101 (2018).

"Judging Mechanistic Neuroscience: A preliminary conceptual-analytic framework for evaluating scientific evidence in the courtroom" (with E. Baron). In Psychology, Crime and Law 24(3): 334-351 (2018). 

"Coordinated Pluralism as a Means to Facilitate Integrative Taxonomies of Cognition". In Philosophical Explorations Issue 2: 129-145 (2017). 

"Construct Stabilization and the Unity of the Mind-Brain Sciences". In Philosophy of Science 83: 662-673 (2016). 

"Response to Commentary on Stabilizing constructs through collaboration across different research fields as a way to foster the integrative approach of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project". In  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2016).

"Stabilizing constructs through collaboration across different research fields as a way to foster the integrative approach of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project". In Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2016).

Chapters

"Mechanisms in neuroscience", (with C. Stinson). Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Mechanisms, Stuart Glennan and Phyllis Illari (eds.). Routledge (2017). 

“Long-term potentiation: One Kind or Many?”. In Eppur Si Muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Peter Machamer. Marcus Adams, Zvi Biener, Uljana Feest and Jackie Sullivan, eds., Springer. pp. 127-140 (2016). 

“Models of Mental Illness”. In Harold Kincaid, Jeremy Simon & Miriam Solomon (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Medicine. Routledge. pp. 455-464 (2016). 

“Neuroscientific Kinds Through the Lens of Scientific Practice”. In Catherine Kendig (ed.), Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice. Routledge. pp. 47-56 (2016). 

Journal Book Forum Contribution

Are there Model Behaviours for Model Organism Research? Commentary on Nicole Nelson's Model Behavior. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences82:101266 (2020).

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Vidotto, Francesca

Articles

"Primordial fluctuations from quantum gravity," (with Francesco Gozzini). Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 7, 118, 2021 [arXiv:1906.02211]

"Pre-big-bang black-hole remnants and the past low entropy" (with C. Rovelli). Universe, 4(11), 129, 2018. [arXiv:1805.03224]

"Relational Quantum Cosmology". In "Philosophy of Cosmology". Ed. J. Barrow, K. Chamcham, J. Silk, S. Saunders. Cambridge University Press, 2017. [arXiv:1309.1403]

"Atomism and Relationalism as guiding principles for Quantum Gravity". PoS(FFP14)222, 2014. [arXiv:1309.1403]

"Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity. An elementary introduction to Quantum Gravity and Spinfoam Theory" (with C. Rovelli). Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Viger, Chris

Article

“" (co-authored with C. Hoefer and D. Viger, 60% contribution). In Theoria. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 34(3), 2019, 407-421 (2019).

Chapter

“Two Questions about Interpretative Effects,” (co-authored with R. Stainton, 50% contribution). In Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics (Ed. G. Preyer). Oxford, UK: OUP, 2018: 9-31.

Weijer, Charles

 Articles (2021–present)

“,” with P Al, J Brehaut, K Gillies, J Presseau, ML Yee. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 29: 535-547 (2026).

“,” with HP Nix, CE Goldstein, M Taljaard M. BMJ Open 16(4): e109131 (2026). [8 pages]

“,” with NB Murphy, MJ Weiss, S Beed, S Chartier-Plante, P Chaudhury, JA Gross, A Healey, G Isac, A Kramer, M Slessarev. American Journal of Transplantation 26(3): 449-454 (2026).

“,” with CE Goldstein, JF Shaw, A Binik, HP Nix, L Ortiz-Reyes, T Mazzetti, A Sergeant, M Taljaard. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 189: 112051 (2026). [10 pages]

“,” with SG Nicholls, P Nevins, G Fox, S Vanderhout, J Brehaut, K Carroll, D Fergusson, A Hilderley, C MacArthur, BK Potter, M Smith, A Spinewine, M Taljaard. Research Involvement and Engagement 11(1): 140 (2025)x. [9 pages]

“,” with TL Morgan, N Hudek, K Carroll, ML Yee, J Inglis, DA Fergusson, K Gillies, DP Richards, SN Semchishen, J Presseau, J Grimshaw, ID Graham, M Rodger, M Taljaard, S Marlin, G MacLennan, JC Brehaut. Research Involvement and Engagement 11(1): 142 (2025). [18 pages]

“,” with CE Goldstein, M Taljaard, SN Dixon. Journal of Medical Ethics 51(10): 672-678 (2025).

“A crossover trial of hospital-wide lactated ringer's solution versus normal saline,” with L McIntyre, D Fergusson, T McArdle, S English, DJ Cook, AE Fox-Robichaud, C Martin, J Marshall, M Pugliese, K Menon, K Thavorn, ID Graham, S Hawken, A Iyengar, K Kyeremanteng, R Saginur, AJE Seely, IG Stiell, D Bainbridge, M Taljaard M. New England Journal of Medicine 393(7): 660-670 (2025).

“,” with H Bruhn, S Treweek, M Briel, M Clarke, R Crowley, K Gillies, H Green, E Murphy, A Parker, G Shiely Hayes, P Hart, F Shiely F. Trials 26(1): 267 (2025). [15 pages]

“,” with JF Shaw, CE Goldstein, T Mazzetti, AC Vieira Armond, Y Marouf, K Lamprecht, E Tran, S Abdul, AJ London, K Hemming, L Mbuagbaw, M Johri, R Ferrand, S Treweek, SG Nicholls, M Taljaard M. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 184: 111825 (2025). [10 pages]

“,” with CE Goldstein, J du Toit, NB Murphy, SG Nicholls, JF Shaw, F Althabe, A Binik, J Brehaut, S Eldridge, RA Ferrand, K Gillies, B Giraudeau, R van der Graaf, LG Hemkens, K Hemming, M Johri, SYH Kim, E Largent, AJ London, L Mbuagbaw, SL Mitchell, M Smith, P Tugwell, S Treweek, VA Welch, M Taljaard. Research Integrity and Peer Review 10(1):10 (2025). [16 pages]

“,” with CF Lanata, TJ Ochoa, EM Bancalari, NW Baylor, K Edwards, RR Faden, SA Madhi, H Nohynek. Vaccine 56: 127176 (2025). [7 pages]

“,” with NB Murphy, M Slessarev, J Basmaji, L Blackstock, M Blaszak, M Brahmania, JA Chandler, S Dhanani, M Gaulton, JA Gross, A Healey, L Lingard, M Ott, SD Shemie. Transplantation 109(4): 597–609 (2025).

“,” with B Tannar, P Olar, S Kilburn, et al.. Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease 12:20543581251318442 (2025). [11 pages]

“,” with HP Nix, M Taljaard. Clinical Trials 22(1): 109–115 (2025).

“,” with M Ott, N Murphy, L Lingard, M Slessarev, L Blackstock, J Basmaji, M Brahmania, A Healey, S Shemie, A Skaro. American Journal of Transplantation 24(11): 2045–2054 (2024).

“,” with M Taljaard. New England Journal of Medicine 391(11): 969–971 (2024).

“,” with CE Goldstein, Y Marouf, M Johri, JF Shaw, A Sergeant, SG Nicholls, F Althabe, RA Ferrand, R van der Graaf, K Hemming, L Mbuagbaw, S Treweek, VA Welch, M Taljaard. BMJ Open 14(9): e087724 (2024). [11 pages]

“Developing guidance for donor intervention randomized controlled trials: initial discussions from the Canada-United Kingdom 2022 workshop,” with M Slessarev, KL Bain, J Basmaji, TD Blydt-Hansen, J Cooper, F D'Aragon, L Del Sorbo, A Evans, AC Gordon, G Klein, MO Meade, N Murphy, HL Thomas, MJ Weiss, D Harvey. Transplantation 108(8): 1776–1781 (2024).

“,” with CE Goldstein, M Taljaard, SG Nicholls, M Beaucage, J Brehaut, CL Cook, BB Cote, JC Craig, SN Dixon, J du Toit, CCS du Val, AX Garg, JM Grimshaw, S Kalatharan, SYH Kim, A Kinsella, V Luyckx. Kidney International 105(5): 898¬–911 (2024).

“,” with B Giraudeau, SM Eldridge, K Hemming, M Taljaard. Journal of Epidemiology and Population Health 72(1): 202197 (2024). [6 pages]

“,” with R Taillieu, MJ Weiss, D Harvey, N Murphy, JA Chandler. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 52(1): 7–21 (2024).

“.” Research Ethics 20(4) (2024). [14 pages]

“,” with S Vanderhout, P Nevins, SG Nicholls, C Macarthur, JC Brehaut, BK Potter, K Gillies, B Goulao, M Smith, A Hilderley, K Carroll, A Spinewine, DA Fergusson, M Taljaard. CMAJ Open 11(5): E826–E837 (2023).

“,” with A Rid, JJ Feld, TJ Liang TJ. Clinical Infectious Diseases 77(Supplement_3): S216–S223 (2023).

“,” with N Murphy, D Debicki, G Laforge, L Norton, T Gofton, M Slessarev. Journal of Medical Ethics 49(5): 311–318 (2023).

“,” with T Gofton, S Dhanani, M Meade, JG Boyd, E Chamberlain, J Chandler, M Chassé, NB Scales, YH Choi, F D'Aragon, D Debicki, S English, TA Fantaneanu, AH Kramer, J Kromm, N Murphy, L Norton, J Singh, MJ Smith, S Shemie, TC Bentall, E Campbell, M Slessarev. BMJ Open 13(4): e073643 (2023). [7 pages]

“,” with NB Murphy, S Lalgudi Ganesan, S Dhanani, T Gofton, M Slessarev. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 70(4): 596–602 (2023).

“,” with NB Murphy, M Slessarev, JA Chandler, T Gofton. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 70(4): 591–595 (2023).

“,” with L Norton, M Graham, K Kazazian, T Gofton, D Debicki, D Fernandez-Espejo, EA Thenayan, AM Owen. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology 23(2): 100347 (2023). [10 pages]

“,” with P Al, S Hey, K Gillies, N McCleary, ML Yee, J Inglis, J Presseau, J Brehaut. Trials 24(1): 233 (2023). [7 pages]

“,” with SG Nicholls, AA Al-Jaishi, H Niznick, K Carroll, MT Madani, KD Peak, L Madani, P Nevins, L Adisso, F Li, SL Mitchell, V Welch, AR Quiñones, M Taljaard. Alzheimer’s & Dementia 15(1): e12392 (2023). [11 pages]

“,” with LA McIntyre, DA Fergusson, T McArdle, A Fox-Robichaud, SW English, C Martin, J Marshall, DJ Cook, ID Graham, S Hawken, C McCartney, K Menon, R Saginur, A Seely, I Stiell, K Thavorn, A Iyengar, J Muscedere, AJ Forster, M Taljaard. BMJ Open 13(2): e067142 (2023). [12 pages]

“,” with HP Nix, EA Largent, M Taljaard, SL Mitchell. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 71(2): 588–598 (2023).

“,” with P Nevins, SG Nicholls, Y Ouyang, K Carroll, K Hemming, M Taljaard. BMJ Open 12(12): e067656 (2022). [11 pages]

“,” with M Taljaard, SG Nicholls, AH Howie, HP Nix, K Carroll, PM Moon, NM Nightingale, B Giraudeau, SP Hey, SM Eldridge, M Zwarenstein. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 151: 113–121 (2022).

“Family experiences with non-therapeutic research on dying patients in the intensive care unit,” with A van Beinum, N Murphy, V Gruben, A Sarti, L Hornby, S Dhanani, J Chandler. Journal of Medical Ethics 48(11): 845–851 (2022).

“,” with B Giraudeau, A Caille, SM Eldridge, M Zwarenstein, M Taljaard. BMC Medicine 20(1): 372 (2022). [16 pages]

“Research bystanders, justice, and the state: Reframing the debate on third-party protections in health research,” with N Murphy. Bioethics 36(8): 865–873 (2022).

“,” with N Murphy, J Chandler, F D’Aragon, A Healey, MJ Weiss, M Slessarev. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 69(10):1196-1202 (2022).

“,” with N Murphy, L Lingard, L Blackstock, M Ott, M Slessarev, J Basmaji, M Brahmania, A Healey, S Shemie, A Skaro, L Wilson. BMJ Open 12(9): e067515 (2022). [8 pages]

“A pressing need for effective, clear, and consistent regulations to facilitate direct contact between donor families and organ-transplant recipients,” with NB Murphy, D Allingham, K LeBlanc, M Slessarev, M Ward. Canadian Journal of Cardiology 38(6): 703–704 (2022).

“,” with SG Nicholls, K Carroll, HP Nix, F Li, SP Hey, SL Mitchell, M Taljaard. Alzheimers & Dementia 8(1): e12287 (2022). [8 pages]

“,” with K Gillies, JC Brehaut, T Coffey, EM Duncan, JJ Francis, SP Hey, J Presseau, MK Campbell. Trials 22(1): 882 (2021). [7 pages]

“Informed consent in pragmatic trials: results from a survey of trials published 2014–2019,” with JZ Zhang, SG Nicholls, K Carroll, HP Nix, CE Goldstein, SP Hey, JC Brehaut, PC McLean, DA Fergusson, M Taljaard. Journal of Medical Ethics 2021 Nov 15:medethics-2021-107765. [7 pages]

“,” with J Basmaji, A Skaro, A Healey, SD Shemie, M Slessarev. Critical Care Explorations 3(11): e0553 (2021). [4 pages]

“,” with HP Nix. BMC Medical Ethics 22(1): 143 (2021). [8 pages]

“,” with JE Ward, S Girgis, K Thorburn, S Oliver, M Taljaard. Nulungu Research Papers 4 (2021). [29 pages]

“,” with HP Nix, JC Brehaut, D Forster, CE Goldstein, M Taljaard. BMJ Open 11(9): e054213 (2021). [9 pages]

“,” with DJ Beard, MK Campbell, JM Blazeby JM, et al. Health Technology Assessment 2021; 25(53): 1–52.

“A review of pragmatic trials found a high degree of diversity in design and scope, deficiencies in reporting and trial registry data, and poor indexing,” with SG Nicholls, K Carroll, SP Hey, M Zwarenstein, JZ Zhang, HP Nix, JC Brehaut, JE McKenzie, S McDonald, Fergusson DA, Taljaard M. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 137: 45–57 (2021).

“” with A Peterson, F Webster, LE Gonzalez-Lara, S Munce, AM Owen, C Weijer. BMC Medical Ethics 22(1): 105 (2021). [13 pages]

“,” with SG Nicholls, K Carroll, CE Goldstein, JC Brehaut, M Zwarenstein, S Dixon, JM Grimshaw, AX Garg, M Taljaard. Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease 8: 20543581211032818 (2021). [15 pages]

“,” with AM Orkin, PJ Gill, D Ghersi, et al.. JAMA 326(3): 257–265 (2021).

“ Journal of Trauma & Orthopaedics 9(2): 58–60 (2021).

“Reopening schools safely in the face of COVID-19: Can cluster randomized trials help?,” with K Hemming, SP Hey S, H Fernandez Lynch. Clinical Trials 18(3): 371–376 (2021).

“,” with E Jamrozik, K Littler, S Bull, C Emerson, G Kang, M Kapulu, E Rey, C Saenz, S Shah, PG Smith, R Upshur, MJ Selgelid. Vaccine 39(4): 633–640 (2021).

“The multiplicity of caregiving burden: a qualitative analysis of families with prolonged disorders of consciousness,” with LE Gonzalez-Lara, S Munce, J Christian, AM Owen, F Webster F. Brain Injury 35(2): 200–208 (2021).

“Experiences of family of individuals in a locked in, minimally conscious state, or vegetative state with the health care system,” with SEP Munce, F Webster, J Christian, LE Gonzalez-Lara, AM Owen. Brain Injury 35(1): 8–14 (2021).

“Grey matter: the problem of incidental findings in neuroimaging research,” with NB Murphy. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 49: 282–284 (2021).

“Controlled donation after circulatory determination of death: a scoping review of ethical issues, key concepts, and arguments,” with N Murphy, M Smith, J Chandler, E Chamberlain, T Gofton, M Slessarev. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 49(3): 418-440 (2021).