Publications

Recent publications include:

2024

Marissa LeBlanc, Jon Williamson, Francesco De Pretis, Juergen Landes & Elena Rocca: Individual consent in cluster randomised trials for non-pharmaceutical interventions: Going beyond the Ottawa Statement, Critical Public Health 34(1): 2338074, 2024. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2024.2338074

2023

Lubomira Radoilska. Moral Competence and Mental Disorder. In Kiener, M. (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility. Routledge, Abingdon, UK: 287- 298. 2023

Lubomira Radoilska and David Foreman. Epistemic justice is both a legitimate and an integral goal of psychiatry: a reply to Kious, Lewis and Kim. Psychological Medicine 53(14): 6939-6940. 2023

Lubomira Radoilska. Is Grit Irrational for Akratic Agents? In: McKearney, P. and N.H. Evans (eds.) Against Better Judgment: Akrasia in Anthropological Perspective. Berghahn Books, Oxford: 146-168. 2023

Michael Wilde. The EBM+ Movement. The International Journal of Biostatistics, 19(2): 283-293 2023.

2022

Lubomira Radoilska. ​Pathologies of Agency. In Luca Ferrero (ed.) The Routledge Handbook in the Philosophy of Agency. Abingdon: Routledge: 169-177, 2022

Michael Wilde. A dilemma for the Russo-Williamson thesis. Erkenntnis. Online first. 2022.

2021

Jeffrey K. Aronson, Daniel Auker-Howlett, Virginia Ghiara, Michael P. Kelly and Jon Williamson: The use of mechanistic reasoning in assessing coronavirus interventions, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 27(3): 684-693, 2021. . doi: 10.1111/jep.13438

Daniel Auker-Howlett and Jon Williamson: Vaccination uptake interventions: an EBM+ approach, Argumenta 7(1): 79-96, 2021. . doi: 10.14275/2465-2334/202113.auk

Michael Wilde. Mechanistic reasoning and the problem of masking. Synthese, 199, 6103-6118. 2021.

Jon Williamson: The feasibility and malleability of EBM+, Theoria 36(2):191-209, 2021. doi: 10.1387/theoria.21244

Jon Williamson: Establishing the teratogenicity of Zika and evaluating causal criteria, Synthese 198(10): 2505–2518, 2021. doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-1866-9

2020

Daniel Auker-Howlett and Michael Wilde. Reinforced reasoning in medicineJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 26(2): 458-464. 2020.

Jonathan M Samet, Weihsueh A Chiu, Vincent Cogliano, Jennifer Jinot, David Kriebel, Ruth M Lunn, Frederick A Beland, Lisa Bero, Patience Browne, Lin Fritschi, Jun Kanno, Dirk W Lachenmeier, Qing Lan, Gérard Lasfargues, Frank Le Curieux, Susan Peters, Pamela Shubat, Hideko Sone, Mary C White, Jon Williamson, Marianna Yakubovskaya, Jack Siemiatycki, Paul A White, Kathryn Z Guyton, Mary K Schubauer-Berigan, Amy L Hall, Yann Grosse, Véronique Bouvard, Lamia Benbrahim-Tallaa, Fatiha El Ghissassi, Béatrice Lauby-Secretan, Bruce Armstrong, Rodolfo Saracci, Jiri Zavadil, Kurt Straif & Christopher P Wild: The IARC Monographs: Updated procedures for modern and transparent evidence synthesis in cancer hazard identification, Journal of the National Cancer Institute 112(1):30-37, 2020. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djz169

Mark R. Tonelli & Jon Williamson: Mechanisms in clinical practice: use and justification, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 23:115–124, 2020. doi: 10.1007/s11019-019-09915-5

Veli-Pekka Parkkinen & Jon Williamson: Extrapolating from model organisms in pharmacology, in La Caze, A., & Osimani, B., (eds), Uncertainty in pharmacology: epistemology, methods, and decisions, Springer, 2020, pp. 59-78. ISBN: 978-3-030-29178-5

2019

Daniel Auker-Howlett and Michael Wilde. Causality in medicine, and its relation to action, mechanisms, and probabilityMetascience, 28: 387-391. 2019.

Michael Wilde and Veli-Pekka Parkkinen. Extrapolation and the Russo-Williamson thesis. Synthese, 196(8): 3251-3262. 2019.

Jon Williamson: Evidential Proximity, Independence, and the evaluation of carcinogenicity, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 25(6):955-961, 2019. doi: 10.1111/jep.13226

Jon Williamson: Establishing causal claims in medicine, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 32(1): 33-61, 2019. doi: 10.1080/02698595.2019.1630927

2018

Jeffrey K. Aronson, Adam La Caze, Michael P. Kelly, Veli-Pekka Parkkinen and Jon Williamson: The use of mechanistic evidence in drug approval, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 24(5):1166-1176, 2018. doi: 10.1111/jep.12960

Regent Lee, Lubomira Radoilska, KWM Fulford and Ashok Handa. A Novel Theoretical Framework to Address the Gap between Universal Guidelines and International Variations in the Threshold for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery. 2018. Annals of Vascular Surgery 53: 275-277, 2018.

Veli-Pekka Parkkinen, Christian Wallmann, Michael Wilde, Brendan Clarke, Phyllis Illari, Michael P. Kelly, Charles Norell, Federica Russo, Beth Shaw and Jon Williamson: Evaluating evidence of mechanisms in medicine: Principles and procedures, Springer, 2018.

2017

Michael Wilde and Jon Williamson. Models in medicine, in M. Solomon, J. Simon, and H. Kincaid (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine, pp. 271-284. Routledge, 2017.

Michael Wilde. Making Medical Knowledge by Miriam Solomon. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Review of Books. 2017.

Jon Williamson: Models in systems medicine, Disputatio, 9(47):429-469, 2017. doi: 10.1515/disp-2017-0014

2016

Lubomira Radoilska and Keron Fletcher. Lessons from Akrasia in Substance Misuse: a Clinicophilosophical Discussion. 2016. BJPsych Advances 22 (4):  234-241. 2016