Kimberly Boyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 216336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberly Boyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberly |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyd |
| SIGNATURE | BOYD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1846-4324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reimagining regulation, placebos and other issues in medical ethics
Out of Africa and into the future
Good bioethics and a good bioethicist
The disciplined imagination of medical ethics
Global health justice
Christine Ladd-Franklin on the nature and unity of the proposition
Although in recent years Christine Ladd-Franklin has received recognition for her contributions to logic and psychology, her role in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century philosophy, as well as her relationship with American pragmatism, has yet to be fully appreciated. My goal here is to attempt to better understand Ladd-Franklin’s place in the pragmatist tradition by drawing attention to her work on the nature and unity of the proposition…
Medical ethics and the climate change emergency
Testimonial Epistemic Rights in Online Spaces
According to many theories of testimony, acts of testimony confer certain epistemic rights upon recipients, e.g., the right for the recipient to complain or otherwise hold the testifier responsible should the content of that testimony turn out to be false, and the right to “pass the epistemic buck”, such that the recipient can redirect relevant challenges they may encounter back to the testifier. While these discussions do not explicitly exclude …
Trusting scientific experts in an online world
A perennial problem in social epistemology is the problem of expert testimony, specifically expert testimony regarding scientific issues: for example, while it is important for me to know information pertaining to anthropogenic climate change, vaccine safety, Covid-19, etc., I may lack the scientific background required to determine whether the information I come across is, in fact, true. Without being able to evaluate the science itself, then, I…
Triage, consent and trusting black boxes
A similar concern to temper utilitarian considerations, in this case with an Aristotelian view of the common good as ‘the good life for each and every member of the community’ is expressed in ‘Public health decisions in the COVID-19 pandemic require more than ‘follow the science’’ by de Campos-Rudinsky and Undurraga.2 Public health decisions, they argue, ‘always involve layers of complexity, coupled with uncertainty’: ‘the implication of the inco…
Science, politics, ethics and the pandemic
That they are ‘following the science’ has become the watchword of many politicians during the present pandemic, especially when imposing or prolonging lockdowns or other liberty-restricting regulations. The scientists who advise politicians however are usually careful to add that the decision what to restrict and when is ultimately a political one. In science, as in medical practice, there is a delicate balance to be maintained between confidence…
Beyond politics
Group understanding
Pandemic medical ethics
The COVID-19 pandemic will generate vexing ethical issues for the foreseeable future and many journals will be open to content that is relevant to our collective effort to meet this challenge. While the pandemic is clearly the critical issue of the moment, it’s important that other issues in medical ethics continue to be addressed as well. As can be seen in this issue, the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) will uphold its commitment to publishing h…
Explanatory frameworks and managing randomness
Epidemics, the medical historian Charles Rosenberg argued, typically have four Acts, as in a play. In Act I, which he termed ‘Progressive revelation’, ‘merchants’, ‘municipal authorities’ and ‘the complacency of ordinary men and women’, alike are reluctant to acknowledge an epidemic because of its threat to their ‘economic and institutional interests’ and to ‘their accustomed way of doing things’: gradually however, ‘inexorably accumulating death…
Ethics in a time of coronavirus
By the time this issue of the Journal is published, the world will have moved on. More will be known, than at the time of writing this, about how medicine and societies are responding to the ethical challenges presented by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. In his guest editorial, (first published online on first April 2020), Dominic Wilkinson writes (see pp 287–288) from the perspective of a UK clinician and ethicist facing the then still impend…
Peirce on Intuition, Instinct, & Common Sense
In addition to being a founder of American pragmatism, Charles Sanders Peirce was a scientist and an empiricist. A core aspect of his thoroughgoing empiricism was a mindset that treats all attitudes as revisable. His fallibilism seems to require us to constantly seek out new information, and to not be content holding any beliefs uncritically. At the same time, Peirce often states that common sense has an important role to play in both scientific …
Pragmatic encroachment and epistemically responsible action
Peirce on Assertion, Speech Acts, and Taking Responsibility
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy - Volume 52, Number 1, Winter 2016
Levi's Challenge and Peirce's Theory/Practice Distinction
Isaac Levi (1980) targets an implicit tension in C.S. Peirce's epistemology, one that exists between the need to always be open-minded and aware of our propensity to make mistakes so that we do not "block the road of inquiry," and the need to treat certain beliefs as infallible and to doubt only in a genuine way so that inquiry can proceed in the first place. Attempts at alleviating this tension have typically involved interpreting Peirce as ascr…
The Impact of Mother-Daughter and Father-Daughter Relationships on Drug Refusal Self-Efficacy Among African American Adolescent Girls in Urban Communities
This study yielded interesting findings on the effect of mother-daughter and father-daughter relationships on drug refusal self-efficacy for urban African American girls between the ages of 11 and 14. The questionnaire consisted of assessments on the quality of the girls' mother and father relationships and their perceived ability to refuse drugs. The quality of the father-daughter relationship significantly predicted drug refusal self-efficacy f…
Doctors’ orders for language testers
Accountability in language testing, as in other professions, requires openness to stakeholders. Professions are increasingly publishing a Code of Ethics which sets out the principles governing the conduct of their members. The long tradition of medicine’s use of a Code of Ethics is discussed and the arguments in that profession with regard to openness is considered. The International Language Testing Association (ILTA) has recently agreed its own…
Disease, illness, sickness, health, healing and wholeness
Concepts such as disease and health can be difficult to define precisely. Part of the reason for this is that they embody value judgments and are rooted in metaphor. The precise meaning of terms like health, healing and wholeness is likely to remain elusive, because the disconcerting openness of the outlook gained from experience alone resists the reduction of first-person judgments (including those of religion) to third-person explanations (incl…
Changing Values in Medicine (Book)
Attitudes to death
Men have been talking of death from time immemorial - sometimes sublimely in prose and poetry, in painting and sculpture and in music - till silence seemed to fall in the recent past. Now men are again talking about death - interminably but colloquially. They talk on television, on the radio, in books and in pamphlets. Dr Kenneth Boyd therefore finds it entirely timely to offer this historical sketch of attitudes to death. The earlier part of his…
The Impact of Mother-Daughter and Father-Daughter Relationships on Drug Refusal Self-Efficacy Among African American Adolescent Girls in Urban Communities
This study yielded interesting findings on the effect of mother-daughter and father-daughter relationships on drug refusal self-efficacy for urban African American girls between the ages of 11 and 14. The questionnaire consisted of assessments on the quality of the girls' mother and father relationships and their perceived ability to refuse drugs. The quality of the father-daughter relationship significantly predicted drug refusal self-efficacy f…
Peirce on Assertion, Speech Acts, and Taking Responsibility
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy - Volume 52, Number 1, Winter 2016
Levi's Challenge and Peirce's Theory/Practice Distinction
Isaac Levi (1980) targets an implicit tension in C.S. Peirce's epistemology, one that exists between the need to always be open-minded and aware of our propensity to make mistakes so that we do not "block the road of inquiry," and the need to treat certain beliefs as infallible and to doubt only in a genuine way so that inquiry can proceed in the first place. Attempts at alleviating this tension have typically involved interpreting Peirce as ascr…
Beyond politics
Trusting scientific experts in an online world
A perennial problem in social epistemology is the problem of expert testimony, specifically expert testimony regarding scientific issues: for example, while it is important for me to know information pertaining to anthropogenic climate change, vaccine safety, Covid-19, etc., I may lack the scientific background required to determine whether the information I come across is, in fact, true. Without being able to evaluate the science itself, then, I…
Attitudes to death
Men have been talking of death from time immemorial - sometimes sublimely in prose and poetry, in painting and sculpture and in music - till silence seemed to fall in the recent past. Now men are again talking about death - interminably but colloquially. They talk on television, on the radio, in books and in pamphlets. Dr Kenneth Boyd therefore finds it entirely timely to offer this historical sketch of attitudes to death. The earlier part of his…
Attitudes to death
Men have been talking of death from time immemorial - sometimes sublimely in prose and poetry, in painting and sculpture and in music - till silence seemed to fall in the recent past. Now men are again talking about death - interminably but colloquially. They talk on television, on the radio, in books and in pamphlets. Dr Kenneth Boyd therefore finds it entirely timely to offer this historical sketch of attitudes to death. The earlier part of his…
Changing Values in Medicine (Book)
Disease, illness, sickness, health, healing and wholeness
Concepts such as disease and health can be difficult to define precisely. Part of the reason for this is that they embody value judgments and are rooted in metaphor. The precise meaning of terms like health, healing and wholeness is likely to remain elusive, because the disconcerting openness of the outlook gained from experience alone resists the reduction of first-person judgments (including those of religion) to third-person explanations (incl…
Doctors’ orders for language testers
Accountability in language testing, as in other professions, requires openness to stakeholders. Professions are increasingly publishing a Code of Ethics which sets out the principles governing the conduct of their members. The long tradition of medicine’s use of a Code of Ethics is discussed and the arguments in that profession with regard to openness is considered. The International Language Testing Association (ILTA) has recently agreed its own…
The Impact of Mother-Daughter and Father-Daughter Relationships on Drug Refusal Self-Efficacy Among African American Adolescent Girls in Urban Communities
This study yielded interesting findings on the effect of mother-daughter and father-daughter relationships on drug refusal self-efficacy for urban African American girls between the ages of 11 and 14. The questionnaire consisted of assessments on the quality of the girls' mother and father relationships and their perceived ability to refuse drugs. The quality of the father-daughter relationship significantly predicted drug refusal self-efficacy f…
Levi's Challenge and Peirce's Theory/Practice Distinction
Isaac Levi (1980) targets an implicit tension in C.S. Peirce's epistemology, one that exists between the need to always be open-minded and aware of our propensity to make mistakes so that we do not "block the road of inquiry," and the need to treat certain beliefs as infallible and to doubt only in a genuine way so that inquiry can proceed in the first place. Attempts at alleviating this tension have typically involved interpreting Peirce as ascr…
Pragmatic encroachment and epistemically responsible action
Peirce on Assertion, Speech Acts, and Taking Responsibility
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy - Volume 52, Number 1, Winter 2016
Peirce on Intuition, Instinct, & Common Sense
In addition to being a founder of American pragmatism, Charles Sanders Peirce was a scientist and an empiricist. A core aspect of his thoroughgoing empiricism was a mindset that treats all attitudes as revisable. His fallibilism seems to require us to constantly seek out new information, and to not be content holding any beliefs uncritically. At the same time, Peirce often states that common sense has an important role to play in both scientific …
Pandemic medical ethics
The COVID-19 pandemic will generate vexing ethical issues for the foreseeable future and many journals will be open to content that is relevant to our collective effort to meet this challenge. While the pandemic is clearly the critical issue of the moment, it’s important that other issues in medical ethics continue to be addressed as well. As can be seen in this issue, the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) will uphold its commitment to publishing h…
Explanatory frameworks and managing randomness
Epidemics, the medical historian Charles Rosenberg argued, typically have four Acts, as in a play. In Act I, which he termed ‘Progressive revelation’, ‘merchants’, ‘municipal authorities’ and ‘the complacency of ordinary men and women’, alike are reluctant to acknowledge an epidemic because of its threat to their ‘economic and institutional interests’ and to ‘their accustomed way of doing things’: gradually however, ‘inexorably accumulating death…
Ethics in a time of coronavirus
By the time this issue of the Journal is published, the world will have moved on. More will be known, than at the time of writing this, about how medicine and societies are responding to the ethical challenges presented by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. In his guest editorial, (first published online on first April 2020), Dominic Wilkinson writes (see pp 287–288) from the perspective of a UK clinician and ethicist facing the then still impend…
Triage, consent and trusting black boxes
A similar concern to temper utilitarian considerations, in this case with an Aristotelian view of the common good as ‘the good life for each and every member of the community’ is expressed in ‘Public health decisions in the COVID-19 pandemic require more than ‘follow the science’’ by de Campos-Rudinsky and Undurraga.2 Public health decisions, they argue, ‘always involve layers of complexity, coupled with uncertainty’: ‘the implication of the inco…
Science, politics, ethics and the pandemic
That they are ‘following the science’ has become the watchword of many politicians during the present pandemic, especially when imposing or prolonging lockdowns or other liberty-restricting regulations. The scientists who advise politicians however are usually careful to add that the decision what to restrict and when is ultimately a political one. In science, as in medical practice, there is a delicate balance to be maintained between confidence…
Beyond politics
Group understanding
Christine Ladd-Franklin on the nature and unity of the proposition
Although in recent years Christine Ladd-Franklin has received recognition for her contributions to logic and psychology, her role in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century philosophy, as well as her relationship with American pragmatism, has yet to be fully appreciated. My goal here is to attempt to better understand Ladd-Franklin’s place in the pragmatist tradition by drawing attention to her work on the nature and unity of the proposition…
Medical ethics and the climate change emergency
Testimonial Epistemic Rights in Online Spaces
According to many theories of testimony, acts of testimony confer certain epistemic rights upon recipients, e.g., the right for the recipient to complain or otherwise hold the testifier responsible should the content of that testimony turn out to be false, and the right to “pass the epistemic buck”, such that the recipient can redirect relevant challenges they may encounter back to the testifier. While these discussions do not explicitly exclude …
Trusting scientific experts in an online world
A perennial problem in social epistemology is the problem of expert testimony, specifically expert testimony regarding scientific issues: for example, while it is important for me to know information pertaining to anthropogenic climate change, vaccine safety, Covid-19, etc., I may lack the scientific background required to determine whether the information I come across is, in fact, true. Without being able to evaluate the science itself, then, I…
Global health justice
The disciplined imagination of medical ethics
Reimagining regulation, placebos and other issues in medical ethics
Out of Africa and into the future
Good bioethics and a good bioethicist
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