Nick Hughes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5911567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Hughes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Hughes |
| SIGNATURE | HUGHES N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Sustainable Energy |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3492-2770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards Resilient and Inclusive Climate Compatible Development: A Participatory, Mixed-Method Scenarios Approach for Zambia
Presents a novel scenarios approach for planning resilient and inclusive climate compatible development. • Applies novel scenario approach to explore climate compatible development in Zambia. • Resilient development can be supported through economic and energy-system diversification. • Inclusive development can be supported through building knowledge, skills and internal capacities. • Multi-level governance and fair development partnerships with …
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada
OBJECTIVE: Paleopathological analysis of a below-knee amputation was conducted to explore the sociocultural reasons why the amputation took place. MATERIALS: Older adolescent male (18-21 years) from the New Englander mass burial at the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg. METHODS: Macroscopic assessment and archival data. RESULTS: A surgical amputation of the right tibia and fibula, distal to the knee was identified. The cross-sectional diaphysis…
Epistemology without guidance
Epistemologists often appeal to the idea that a normative theory must provide useful, usable, guidance to argue for one normative epistemology over another. I argue that this is a mistake. Guidance considerations have no role to play in theory choice in epistemology. I show how this has implications for debates about the possibility and scope of epistemic dilemmas, the legitimacy of idealisation in Bayesian epistemology, uniqueness versus permiss…
The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Code red for a healthy future
The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Responding to converging crises
Epistemic feedback loops (or: (How not to get evidence)
Epistemologists spend a great deal of time thinking about how we should respond to our evidence. They spend far less time thinking about the ways that evidence can be acquired in the first place. This is an oversight. Some ways of acquiring evidence are better than others. Many normative epistemologies struggle to accommodate this fact. In this article I develop one that can and does. I identify a phenomenon – epistemic feedback loops – in which …
Sea-ice information and forecast needs for industry maritime stakeholders
Profound changes in Arctic sea-ice, a growing desire to utilize the Arctic’s abundant natural resources, and the potential competitiveness of Arctic shipping routes, all provide for increased industry marine activity throughout the Arctic Ocean. This is anticipated to result in further challenges for maritime safety. Those operating in ice-infested waters require various types of information for sea-ice and iceberg hazards. Ice information requir…
Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals
Dilemmic Epistemology
Luminosity Failure, Normative Guidance and the Principle ‘Ought-Implies-Can’
It is widely thought that moral obligations are necessarily guidance giving. This supposed fact has been put to service in defence of the ‘ought-implies-can’ principle according to which one cannot be morally obligated to do the impossible, since impossible-to-satisfy obligations would not give guidance. It is argued here that the supposed fact is no such thing; moral obligations are not necessarily guiding giving, and so the ‘guidance argument’ …
Oil spill response capabilities and technologies for ice-covered Arctic marine waters: A review of recent developments and established practices
Renewed political and commercial interest in the resources of the Arctic, the reduction in the extent and thickness of sea ice, and the recent failings that led to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have prompted industry and its regulatory agencies, governments, local communities and NGOs to look at all aspects of Arctic oil spill countermeasures with fresh eyes. This paper provides an overview of present oil spill response capabilities and techno…
Guidance, Obligations and Ability: A Close Look at the Action Guidance Argument for Ought-Implies-Can
It is often argued that the requirement that moral obligations be ‘action guiding’ motivates the claim that one can be obligated to φ only if one can φ. I argue that even on its most plausible interpretation, this argument fails
The impact of sustainable energy production on land use in Britain through to 2050
Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals
Dilemmic Epistemology
The impact of sustainable energy production on land use in Britain through to 2050
Epistemic feedback loops (or: (How not to get evidence)
Epistemologists spend a great deal of time thinking about how we should respond to our evidence. They spend far less time thinking about the ways that evidence can be acquired in the first place. This is an oversight. Some ways of acquiring evidence are better than others. Many normative epistemologies struggle to accommodate this fact. In this article I develop one that can and does. I identify a phenomenon – epistemic feedback loops – in which …
Guidance, Obligations and Ability: A Close Look at the Action Guidance Argument for Ought-Implies-Can
It is often argued that the requirement that moral obligations be ‘action guiding’ motivates the claim that one can be obligated to φ only if one can φ. I argue that even on its most plausible interpretation, this argument fails
Luminosity Failure, Normative Guidance and the Principle ‘Ought-Implies-Can’
It is widely thought that moral obligations are necessarily guidance giving. This supposed fact has been put to service in defence of the ‘ought-implies-can’ principle according to which one cannot be morally obligated to do the impossible, since impossible-to-satisfy obligations would not give guidance. It is argued here that the supposed fact is no such thing; moral obligations are not necessarily guiding giving, and so the ‘guidance argument’ …
The impact of sustainable energy production on land use in Britain through to 2050
Oil spill response capabilities and technologies for ice-covered Arctic marine waters: A review of recent developments and established practices
Renewed political and commercial interest in the resources of the Arctic, the reduction in the extent and thickness of sea ice, and the recent failings that led to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have prompted industry and its regulatory agencies, governments, local communities and NGOs to look at all aspects of Arctic oil spill countermeasures with fresh eyes. This paper provides an overview of present oil spill response capabilities and techno…
Guidance, Obligations and Ability: A Close Look at the Action Guidance Argument for Ought-Implies-Can
It is often argued that the requirement that moral obligations be ‘action guiding’ motivates the claim that one can be obligated to φ only if one can φ. I argue that even on its most plausible interpretation, this argument fails
Luminosity Failure, Normative Guidance and the Principle ‘Ought-Implies-Can’
It is widely thought that moral obligations are necessarily guidance giving. This supposed fact has been put to service in defence of the ‘ought-implies-can’ principle according to which one cannot be morally obligated to do the impossible, since impossible-to-satisfy obligations would not give guidance. It is argued here that the supposed fact is no such thing; moral obligations are not necessarily guiding giving, and so the ‘guidance argument’ …
Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals
Dilemmic Epistemology
Sea-ice information and forecast needs for industry maritime stakeholders
Profound changes in Arctic sea-ice, a growing desire to utilize the Arctic’s abundant natural resources, and the potential competitiveness of Arctic shipping routes, all provide for increased industry marine activity throughout the Arctic Ocean. This is anticipated to result in further challenges for maritime safety. Those operating in ice-infested waters require various types of information for sea-ice and iceberg hazards. Ice information requir…
The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Code red for a healthy future
The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Responding to converging crises
Epistemic feedback loops (or: (How not to get evidence)
Epistemologists spend a great deal of time thinking about how we should respond to our evidence. They spend far less time thinking about the ways that evidence can be acquired in the first place. This is an oversight. Some ways of acquiring evidence are better than others. Many normative epistemologies struggle to accommodate this fact. In this article I develop one that can and does. I identify a phenomenon – epistemic feedback loops – in which …
Epistemology without guidance
Epistemologists often appeal to the idea that a normative theory must provide useful, usable, guidance to argue for one normative epistemology over another. I argue that this is a mistake. Guidance considerations have no role to play in theory choice in epistemology. I show how this has implications for debates about the possibility and scope of epistemic dilemmas, the legitimacy of idealisation in Bayesian epistemology, uniqueness versus permiss…
Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada
OBJECTIVE: Paleopathological analysis of a below-knee amputation was conducted to explore the sociocultural reasons why the amputation took place. MATERIALS: Older adolescent male (18-21 years) from the New Englander mass burial at the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg. METHODS: Macroscopic assessment and archival data. RESULTS: A surgical amputation of the right tibia and fibula, distal to the knee was identified. The cross-sectional diaphysis…
Towards Resilient and Inclusive Climate Compatible Development: A Participatory, Mixed-Method Scenarios Approach for Zambia
Presents a novel scenarios approach for planning resilient and inclusive climate compatible development. • Applies novel scenario approach to explore climate compatible development in Zambia. • Resilient development can be supported through economic and energy-system diversification. • Inclusive development can be supported through building knowledge, skills and internal capacities. • Multi-level governance and fair development partnerships with …
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (3 works)