Jacob Busch
Biographic Data
| ID | 5966183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Busch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Busch |
| SIGNATURE | BUSCH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0472-296X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Artificial intelligence and identity: The rise of the statistical individual
Algorithms are used across a wide range of societal sectors such as banking, administration, and healthcare to make predictions that impact on our lives. While the predictions can be incredibly accurate about our present and future behavior, there is an important question about how these algorithms in fact represent human identity. In this paper, we explore this question and argue that machine learning algorithms represent human identity in terms…
Artificial Intelligence and Patient-Centered Decision-Making
Advanced AI systems are rapidly making their way into medical research and practice, and, arguably, it is only a matter of time before they will surpass human practitioners in terms of accuracy, reliability, and knowledge. If this is true, practitioners will have a prima facie epistemic and professional obligation to align their medical verdicts with those of advanced AI systems. However, in light of their complexity, these AI systems will often …
Nudging in Public Health Lifestyle Interventions: A Systematic Literature Review and Metasynthesis
Nudging is increasingly used in public health interventions in Western societies to produced health-promoting behavior changes; however, there is lack of clarity as to what constitutes a nudge, scant knowledge of the effectiveness of nudging techniques in public health lifestyle interventions and a number of ethical and value-based concerns. The aim of this review is to address these research lacunae and identify the characteristics of nudges in …
Self-Fulfillment of Social Science Theories: Cooling the Fire
Self-fulfillment of theories is argued to be a threat to social science in at least two ways. First, a realist might worry that self-fulfillment constitutes a threat to the idea that social science is a proper science consistent with a realist approach that develops true and successful statements about the world. Second, one might argue that the potential self-fulfilling nature of social science theories potentially undermines the ethical integri…
Should scientific realists be platonists
Towards an Ethical Fashion Framework
Definitions of ethical fashion have a strong focus on the responsibility of the providers and the consumers of unethical fashion items. This paper argues that such understandings of the problems and solutions ignore important aspects. To provide a clearer picture of the situation, this paper identifies the relevant actors and their mutual influences
Can the new indispensability argument be saved from Euclidean rescues
Is the Indispensability Argument Dispensable
When the indispensability argument for mathematical entities (IA) is spelled out, it would appear confirmational holism is needed for the argument to work. It has been argued that confirmational holism is a dispensable premise in the argument if a construal of naturalism, according to which it is denied that we can take different epistemic attitudes towards different parts of our scientific theories, is adopted. I argue that the suggested variety…
A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable - Anjan Chakravartty
Journal Article A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable – Anjan Chakravartty Get access A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable. Anjan Chakravartty, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii + 251. Price £45.00.) Jacob Busch Jacob Busch University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 235, April…
No New Miracles, Same Old Tricks
Laudan (1984) distinguishes between two senses of success for scientific theories: (i) that a particular theory is successful, and (ii) that the methods for picking out approximately true theories are successful. These two senses of success are reflected in two different ways that the no miracles argument for scientific realism (NMA) may be set out. First, I set out a (traditional) version of NMA that considers the success of particular theories.…
Eclectic realism—a cake less filling
Towards an Ethical Fashion Framework
Definitions of ethical fashion have a strong focus on the responsibility of the providers and the consumers of unethical fashion items. This paper argues that such understandings of the problems and solutions ignore important aspects. To provide a clearer picture of the situation, this paper identifies the relevant actors and their mutual influences
Should scientific realists be platonists
Self-Fulfillment of Social Science Theories: Cooling the Fire
Self-fulfillment of theories is argued to be a threat to social science in at least two ways. First, a realist might worry that self-fulfillment constitutes a threat to the idea that social science is a proper science consistent with a realist approach that develops true and successful statements about the world. Second, one might argue that the potential self-fulfilling nature of social science theories potentially undermines the ethical integri…
Can the new indispensability argument be saved from Euclidean rescues
No New Miracles, Same Old Tricks
Laudan (1984) distinguishes between two senses of success for scientific theories: (i) that a particular theory is successful, and (ii) that the methods for picking out approximately true theories are successful. These two senses of success are reflected in two different ways that the no miracles argument for scientific realism (NMA) may be set out. First, I set out a (traditional) version of NMA that considers the success of particular theories.…
Eclectic realism—a cake less filling
A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable - Anjan Chakravartty
Journal Article A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable – Anjan Chakravartty Get access A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable. Anjan Chakravartty, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii + 251. Price £45.00.) Jacob Busch Jacob Busch University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 235, April…
Is the Indispensability Argument Dispensable
When the indispensability argument for mathematical entities (IA) is spelled out, it would appear confirmational holism is needed for the argument to work. It has been argued that confirmational holism is a dispensable premise in the argument if a construal of naturalism, according to which it is denied that we can take different epistemic attitudes towards different parts of our scientific theories, is adopted. I argue that the suggested variety…
Can the new indispensability argument be saved from Euclidean rescues
Towards an Ethical Fashion Framework
Definitions of ethical fashion have a strong focus on the responsibility of the providers and the consumers of unethical fashion items. This paper argues that such understandings of the problems and solutions ignore important aspects. To provide a clearer picture of the situation, this paper identifies the relevant actors and their mutual influences
Self-Fulfillment of Social Science Theories: Cooling the Fire
Self-fulfillment of theories is argued to be a threat to social science in at least two ways. First, a realist might worry that self-fulfillment constitutes a threat to the idea that social science is a proper science consistent with a realist approach that develops true and successful statements about the world. Second, one might argue that the potential self-fulfilling nature of social science theories potentially undermines the ethical integri…
Should scientific realists be platonists
Nudging in Public Health Lifestyle Interventions: A Systematic Literature Review and Metasynthesis
Nudging is increasingly used in public health interventions in Western societies to produced health-promoting behavior changes; however, there is lack of clarity as to what constitutes a nudge, scant knowledge of the effectiveness of nudging techniques in public health lifestyle interventions and a number of ethical and value-based concerns. The aim of this review is to address these research lacunae and identify the characteristics of nudges in …
Artificial Intelligence and Patient-Centered Decision-Making
Advanced AI systems are rapidly making their way into medical research and practice, and, arguably, it is only a matter of time before they will surpass human practitioners in terms of accuracy, reliability, and knowledge. If this is true, practitioners will have a prima facie epistemic and professional obligation to align their medical verdicts with those of advanced AI systems. However, in light of their complexity, these AI systems will often …
Artificial intelligence and identity: The rise of the statistical individual
Algorithms are used across a wide range of societal sectors such as banking, administration, and healthcare to make predictions that impact on our lives. While the predictions can be incredibly accurate about our present and future behavior, there is an important question about how these algorithms in fact represent human identity. In this paper, we explore this question and argue that machine learning algorithms represent human identity in terms…
Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Realism (4 works) · Science and Climate Studies (4 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works)