Ben Davie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Davie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Davie |
| SIGNATURE | BEN DAVIE |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3382-4191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Comparative judgement for experimental philosophy: A method for assessing ordinary meaning in vehicles in the park cases
This paper demonstrates the value to experimental philosophy of an empirical method from the social sciences – that of comparative judgment. Comparative judgment is a method of assigning scores to (perceptions of) objects using paired comparisons. We use this method to explore the “ordinary meaning” of words, and the classic case of vehicles in the park in particular. We present an empirical study comprising three conditions. Given a pair of pote…
For the hope of sun machines: Reading in and Out of the University
Why leaders can be bad: Linking rigor with relevance using machine learning analysis to test the transgression credit theory of leadership
Transgression credit is a form of deviance credit that occurs when people are more permissive towards transgressions by in-group leaders than by in-group nonleaders and out-group members and leaders. Despite rigorous experimental and simulation evidence for transgression credit, the ability to make such group processes research relevant to organizations and wider policy requires evidence with greater ecological validity. We examine transgression …
The Causal Relationship Between Volunteering and Social Cohesion: A Large Scale Analysis of Secondary Longitudinal Data
It is often taken for granted that social cohesion and volunteering are inextricably related. Previous research suggests both that social cohesion creates a conducive environment for volunteering to emerge and that volunteering itself facilitates feelings of social cohesion. Despite this, much of the existing evidence on this relationship is limited to cross-sectional research that precludes any assessment of potential causality. In this paper we…
Doctors as Appointed Fiduciaries: A Supplemental Model for Medical Decision-Making
How should we respond to patients who do not wish to take on the responsibility and burdens of making decisions about their own care? In this paper, we argue that existing models of decision-making in modern healthcare are ill-equipped to cope with such patients and should be supplemented by an “appointed fiduciary” model where decision-making authority is formally transferred to a medical professional. Healthcare decisions are often complex and …
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Drawing on a study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no account of books published during the pandemic will be able to capture, namely the movement of readers between new purchases and books long kept in their collections. The book follows readers who have tuned into novels about plague, apocalypse, and r…
The darkness-within-the-light of contemporary fiction: Agamben's missing reader and Ben Lerner's 10:04
The role of reading and the reader in Giorgio Agamben’s ‘What is the Contemporary?’ is ambiguous. Rather than examining the importance of reading he emphasises, Agamben explores what it means to be contemporary. Reading Ben Lerner’s 10:04 in the light (and darkness) of Agamben’s essay, I argue both that the essay can be read as a theory of ‘contemporary reading’ and that 10:04 reflects its own contemporariness. 10:04 creates forms of contemporary…
Bursting Bubbles? Qalys and Discrimination
The use of Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) in healthcare allocation has been criticized as discriminatory against people with disabilities. This article considers a response to this criticism from Nick Beckstead and Toby Ord. They say that even if QALYs are discriminatory, attempting to avoid discrimination – when coupled with other central principles that an allocation system should favour – sometimes leads to irrationality in the form of cy…
Increasing children’s physical activity through a teaching-assistant led extracurricular intervention: Process evaluation of the action 3:30 randomised feasibility trial
ISRCTN58502739
School travel mode, parenting practices and physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children
For girls, encouraging active travel to school is likely to be important for overall PA. Further formative research may be warranted to understand how both parental logistic support and active travel decisions are operationalized in families as a means of understanding how to promote increased PA among pre-adolescent children
Shifting environmental perspectives in agriculture: Repeated Q analysis and the stability of preference structures
Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture
Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demonstrates that time offers new critical perspectives o
Exploring environmental perspectives in lowland agriculture: A Q methodology study in East Anglia, UK
Exploring environmental perspectives in lowland agriculture: A Q methodology study in East Anglia, UK
Why leaders can be bad: Linking rigor with relevance using machine learning analysis to test the transgression credit theory of leadership
Transgression credit is a form of deviance credit that occurs when people are more permissive towards transgressions by in-group leaders than by in-group nonleaders and out-group members and leaders. Despite rigorous experimental and simulation evidence for transgression credit, the ability to make such group processes research relevant to organizations and wider policy requires evidence with greater ecological validity. We examine transgression …
The Causal Relationship Between Volunteering and Social Cohesion: A Large Scale Analysis of Secondary Longitudinal Data
It is often taken for granted that social cohesion and volunteering are inextricably related. Previous research suggests both that social cohesion creates a conducive environment for volunteering to emerge and that volunteering itself facilitates feelings of social cohesion. Despite this, much of the existing evidence on this relationship is limited to cross-sectional research that precludes any assessment of potential causality. In this paper we…
Exploring environmental perspectives in lowland agriculture: A Q methodology study in East Anglia, UK
Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture
Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demonstrates that time offers new critical perspectives o
Shifting environmental perspectives in agriculture: Repeated Q analysis and the stability of preference structures
School travel mode, parenting practices and physical activity among UK Year 5 and 6 children
For girls, encouraging active travel to school is likely to be important for overall PA. Further formative research may be warranted to understand how both parental logistic support and active travel decisions are operationalized in families as a means of understanding how to promote increased PA among pre-adolescent children
Increasing children’s physical activity through a teaching-assistant led extracurricular intervention: Process evaluation of the action 3:30 randomised feasibility trial
ISRCTN58502739
Bursting Bubbles? Qalys and Discrimination
The use of Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) in healthcare allocation has been criticized as discriminatory against people with disabilities. This article considers a response to this criticism from Nick Beckstead and Toby Ord. They say that even if QALYs are discriminatory, attempting to avoid discrimination – when coupled with other central principles that an allocation system should favour – sometimes leads to irrationality in the form of cy…
The darkness-within-the-light of contemporary fiction: Agamben's missing reader and Ben Lerner's 10:04
The role of reading and the reader in Giorgio Agamben’s ‘What is the Contemporary?’ is ambiguous. Rather than examining the importance of reading he emphasises, Agamben explores what it means to be contemporary. Reading Ben Lerner’s 10:04 in the light (and darkness) of Agamben’s essay, I argue both that the essay can be read as a theory of ‘contemporary reading’ and that 10:04 reflects its own contemporariness. 10:04 creates forms of contemporary…
Doctors as Appointed Fiduciaries: A Supplemental Model for Medical Decision-Making
How should we respond to patients who do not wish to take on the responsibility and burdens of making decisions about their own care? In this paper, we argue that existing models of decision-making in modern healthcare are ill-equipped to cope with such patients and should be supplemented by an “appointed fiduciary” model where decision-making authority is formally transferred to a medical professional. Healthcare decisions are often complex and …
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Drawing on a study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book provides a snapshot of a phenomenal moment in modern history. The ethnographic approach shows what no account of books published during the pandemic will be able to capture, namely the movement of readers between new purchases and books long kept in their collections. The book follows readers who have tuned into novels about plague, apocalypse, and r…
Why leaders can be bad: Linking rigor with relevance using machine learning analysis to test the transgression credit theory of leadership
Transgression credit is a form of deviance credit that occurs when people are more permissive towards transgressions by in-group leaders than by in-group nonleaders and out-group members and leaders. Despite rigorous experimental and simulation evidence for transgression credit, the ability to make such group processes research relevant to organizations and wider policy requires evidence with greater ecological validity. We examine transgression …
The Causal Relationship Between Volunteering and Social Cohesion: A Large Scale Analysis of Secondary Longitudinal Data
It is often taken for granted that social cohesion and volunteering are inextricably related. Previous research suggests both that social cohesion creates a conducive environment for volunteering to emerge and that volunteering itself facilitates feelings of social cohesion. Despite this, much of the existing evidence on this relationship is limited to cross-sectional research that precludes any assessment of potential causality. In this paper we…
Comparative judgement for experimental philosophy: A method for assessing ordinary meaning in vehicles in the park cases
This paper demonstrates the value to experimental philosophy of an empirical method from the social sciences – that of comparative judgment. Comparative judgment is a method of assigning scores to (perceptions of) objects using paired comparisons. We use this method to explore the “ordinary meaning” of words, and the classic case of vehicles in the park in particular. We present an empirical study comprising three conditions. Given a pair of pote…
For the hope of sun machines: Reading in and Out of the University
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)