Shane N Glackin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1271583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shane N Glackin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shane N |
| FAMILY NAME | Glackin |
| SIGNATURE | GLACKIN S N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8346-8666 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Elastic Ruler
This article first poses a skeptical challenge to clinical trials in medicine. The efficacy of treatments is measured against placebo, but placebo responses are not constant. They fluctuate with demographic variables, and they seem to be increasing over time. We therefore find ourselves measuring with the equivalent of what Wittgenstein termed an “elastic ruler.” I then propose a “skeptical solution” to the problem. Elastic rulers are suitable to…
Expressive Responding, Experimental Philosophy, and Philosophical Expertise
The Experimental Philosophy (“X-Phi”) movement applies the methodology of empirical sciences – most commonly empirical psychology – to traditional philosophical questions. In its radical, “negative” form, X-Phi uses the resulting empirical data to cast doubt on the reliability of common philosophical methods, arguing for radical reform of philosophical methodology. In this paper I develop two connected methodological worries about this second ent…
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy
Werkhoven’s ‘A Dispositional Theory of Health’ is an important and original contribution to debates about the disease concept, which persuasively demonstrates that dispositions must play some role in a full account of what it is to be healthy or ill. Unfortunately, as a theory, it cannot as it stands be correct. I first demonstrate what appears to be a significant, and possibly fatal, flaw; the proliferation of dispositions which Werkhoven’s theo…
So language. Very prescribe. Wow
The philosophical dispute about linguistic normativity is one battlefield in a larger war over the nature of language as an object of scientific study. For those influenced by Wittgenstein, language involves following — or failing to follow — public, prescriptive rules; for Chomsky and his followers, language is a property of individual minds and brains, and the grammatical judgements of any mature individual speaker — her competence — cannot be,…
Grounded Disease
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press via the DOI in this record
Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper Health, Illness, and Disease
Kind-Making, objectivity, and political neutrality; the case of Solastalgia
Dolphin natures, human virtues
The Quined-Up Herd Chronicles
Grounded Disease
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press via the DOI in this record
Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper Health, Illness, and Disease
Dolphin natures, human virtues
The Quined-Up Herd Chronicles
Dolphin natures, human virtues
Kind-Making, objectivity, and political neutrality; the case of Solastalgia
Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper Health, Illness, and Disease
So language. Very prescribe. Wow
The philosophical dispute about linguistic normativity is one battlefield in a larger war over the nature of language as an object of scientific study. For those influenced by Wittgenstein, language involves following — or failing to follow — public, prescriptive rules; for Chomsky and his followers, language is a property of individual minds and brains, and the grammatical judgements of any mature individual speaker — her competence — cannot be,…
Grounded Disease
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press via the DOI in this record
Infinity, Technology, Degeneracy
Werkhoven’s ‘A Dispositional Theory of Health’ is an important and original contribution to debates about the disease concept, which persuasively demonstrates that dispositions must play some role in a full account of what it is to be healthy or ill. Unfortunately, as a theory, it cannot as it stands be correct. I first demonstrate what appears to be a significant, and possibly fatal, flaw; the proliferation of dispositions which Werkhoven’s theo…
Expressive Responding, Experimental Philosophy, and Philosophical Expertise
The Experimental Philosophy (“X-Phi”) movement applies the methodology of empirical sciences – most commonly empirical psychology – to traditional philosophical questions. In its radical, “negative” form, X-Phi uses the resulting empirical data to cast doubt on the reliability of common philosophical methods, arguing for radical reform of philosophical methodology. In this paper I develop two connected methodological worries about this second ent…
The Elastic Ruler
This article first poses a skeptical challenge to clinical trials in medicine. The efficacy of treatments is measured against placebo, but placebo responses are not constant. They fluctuate with demographic variables, and they seem to be increasing over time. We therefore find ourselves measuring with the equivalent of what Wittgenstein termed an “elastic ruler.” I then propose a “skeptical solution” to the problem. Elastic rulers are suitable to…
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)