Stijn Conix
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stijn Conix |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stijn |
| FAMILY NAME | Conix |
| SIGNATURE | CONIX S |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1487-0213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Using peer review to evaluate the societal relevance of humanities research
In light of growing calls to demonstrate the societal relevance of academic work, this paper explores whether peer review can reliably evaluate the societal relevance of humanities research. It also estimates how relevant published journal articles and books from five humanities fields are to society. By modeling two evaluation tasks involving 38 early-career researchers and 885 humanities abstracts in English from Web of Science, we estimate how…
Measuring the isolation of research topics in philosophy
The public relevance of philosophy
Responsible Dissemination in Sexual Orientation Research: The Case of the AI “Gaydar”
A recent controversy about neural networks allegedly capable of detecting a person’s sexual orientation raises the question of whether all research on homosexuality should be permitted. This paper considers two arguments for limits to such research, and concludes that there are good reasons to limit at least the dissemination of applied research on the etiology of homosexuality. The paper then briefly sketches how this could work, and looks at th…
Against natural kind eliminativism
Enzyme classification and the entanglement of values and epistemic standards
Taxonomy and conservation science: Interdependent and value-laden
Radical pluralism, classificatory norms and the legitimacy of species classifications
Radical pluralism, classificatory norms and the legitimacy of species classifications
Taxonomy and conservation science: Interdependent and value-laden
Enzyme classification and the entanglement of values and epistemic standards
Against natural kind eliminativism
Measuring the isolation of research topics in philosophy
The public relevance of philosophy
Responsible Dissemination in Sexual Orientation Research: The Case of the AI “Gaydar”
A recent controversy about neural networks allegedly capable of detecting a person’s sexual orientation raises the question of whether all research on homosexuality should be permitted. This paper considers two arguments for limits to such research, and concludes that there are good reasons to limit at least the dissemination of applied research on the etiology of homosexuality. The paper then briefly sketches how this could work, and looks at th…
Using peer review to evaluate the societal relevance of humanities research
In light of growing calls to demonstrate the societal relevance of academic work, this paper explores whether peer review can reliably evaluate the societal relevance of humanities research. It also estimates how relevant published journal articles and books from five humanities fields are to society. By modeling two evaluation tasks involving 38 early-career researchers and 885 humanities abstracts in English from Web of Science, we estimate how…
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy of science (3 works)