Matthew Chrisman
Biographic Data
| ID | 988549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Chrisman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Chrisman |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2886-5829 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Inferentialist expressivism, an unequal marriage
Epistemic normativity as autotelic: Why suspension and judgment aren’t like archery
We can evaluate what people do in relation to the effects of their doings. Often, the effect is the result of the agent trying to bring about some goal, and we evaluate what they have done by asking how well they have pursued the goal and whether they have achieved it. If someone is trying to bake a loaf of bread, for example, we can assess how well they did by asking how well they followed the recipe and whether the result matches what they were…
Teachers’ and Principals’ Familiarity with School Wellness Policy: A Health Promoting Schools Assessment
The current study explored teacher and principal familiarity with school wellness polices in primary schools, including who serves on school wellness committees, and who should implement and enforce wellness policies in the school. An electronic survey guided by the Health Promoting Schools framework was administered from February to May 2020 to teachers and principals from one urban and one suburban school district in the Midwestern United State…
Evidence-based Training to Improve Communication between Health Advocates and State Policymakers
Persuading state policymakers to adopt effective child health policies requires effective communication from health advocates. This study examined the effectiveness of evidence-based communication training among child obesity advocates and their state legislators. A health advocacy group conducted training using evidence-based strategies and health-related policy updates in one Midwestern State Capitol building in January 2020. Twenty-three healt…
Discursive Integrity and the Principles of Responsible Public Debate
This paper articulates a general distinction between two important communicative ideals—expressive sincerity and discursive integrity—and then uses it to analyze problems with political debate in contemporary democracies. In the context of philosophical discussions of different forms of trustworthiness and debates about deliberative democracy, self-knowledge, and moral testimony, the paper develops three arguments for the conclusion that, althoug…
Challenges of Preparing Nursing Students for Practice: The Faculty Perspective
Background: A significant challenge facing nursing is new graduate RNs' unreadiness for practice. To better understand the issue, this study presents the challenges nursing faculty encounter in preparing nursing students for clinical practice through semi-structured interviews. Method: Eight faculty from a private midwestern university's prelicensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program participated in the study. A modified version of Col…
Resources Needed for Education and Meal Programs by Urban Schoolteachers and Staff During the 2019 Coronavirus Pandemic
Addressing these concerns can improve school and community health. Findings will inform efforts to enhance online teaching and improve and continue school meal programs as the world continues to be affected by COVID-19.
College Classroom Instructors Can Effectively Promote Standing among Students Provided with Standing Desks
Standing desks may reduce sedentary behaviors in college students. Students at one mid-size urban university in the Midwestern United States were randomized into intervention ( n = 21) and control groups ( n = 27) to assess standing time when given access to standing desks. The intervention group received visual and oral instructor prompts to stand, while the control received no prompts during a 50 min lecture. All students were provided with adj…
The Language of the Unheard: Rioting as a Speech Act
George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis on
Assessing sitting and standing in college students using height-adjustable desks
Objective: To examine if Arduino microcontrollers and Fitbits can serve as proxy measures for the direct observation of sitting and standing time in college students using height-adjustable standing desks. The preferred type of standing desks and reasons to use the desks were also assessed. Design: Classroom-based intervention, plus cross-sectional survey. Setting: Mid-sized Midwestern US university classroom. Method: Students were randomised to …
Performance normativity and here-and-now doxastic agency
Sosa famously argues that epistemic normativity is a species of “performance normativity,” comparing beliefs to archery shots. However, philosophers have traditionally conceived of beliefs as states , which means that they are not dynamic or telic like performances. A natural response to this tension is to argue that belief formation rather than belief itself is the proper target of epistemic normativity. This response is rejected here on grounds…
Philosophy for Everyone
The meaning of 'ought' beyond descriptivism and expressivism in metaethics: Beyond Descriptivism and Expressivism in Metaethics
The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word. This book develops a careful account of the semantics of 'ought' as a modal operator and uses this to motivate a novel inferentialist account of why ought-sentences have the meaning that they have. The inferentialist theory defended in this book agrees with descriptivist theories in metaethics that specifying the truth conditions of normative sentences is a central …
Perceived Correlates of Domain‐Specific Physical Activity in Rural Adults in the Midwest
PURPOSE: In response to calls for more specificity when measuring physical activity, this study examined perceived correlates of this behavior in rural adults separately by the domain in which this behavior occurs (ie, home care, work, active living, and sport). METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was completed by 407 adults from 2 rural towns in the Midwest. The questionnaire assessed the perceived social and physical environment, including neighb…
Epistemic Expressivism
Epistemic expressivism is the application of a nexus of ideas, which is prominent in ethical theory (more specifically, metaethics), to parallel issues in epistemological theory (more specifically, metaepistemology). Here, in order to help those new to the debate come to grips with epistemic expressivism and recent discussions of it, I first briefly present this nexus of ideas as it occurs in ethical expressivism. Then, I explain why and how some…
Expressivism, Inferentialism, and Saving the Debate
The meaning of 'ought' beyond descriptivism and expressivism in metaethics: Beyond Descriptivism and Expressivism in Metaethics
The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word. This book develops a careful account of the semantics of 'ought' as a modal operator and uses this to motivate a novel inferentialist account of why ought-sentences have the meaning that they have. The inferentialist theory defended in this book agrees with descriptivist theories in metaethics that specifying the truth conditions of normative sentences is a central …
Expressivism, Inferentialism, and Saving the Debate
The Language of the Unheard: Rioting as a Speech Act
George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis on
Epistemic Expressivism
Epistemic expressivism is the application of a nexus of ideas, which is prominent in ethical theory (more specifically, metaethics), to parallel issues in epistemological theory (more specifically, metaepistemology). Here, in order to help those new to the debate come to grips with epistemic expressivism and recent discussions of it, I first briefly present this nexus of ideas as it occurs in ethical expressivism. Then, I explain why and how some…
Performance normativity and here-and-now doxastic agency
Sosa famously argues that epistemic normativity is a species of “performance normativity,” comparing beliefs to archery shots. However, philosophers have traditionally conceived of beliefs as states , which means that they are not dynamic or telic like performances. A natural response to this tension is to argue that belief formation rather than belief itself is the proper target of epistemic normativity. This response is rejected here on grounds…
Expressivism, Inferentialism, and Saving the Debate
Epistemic Expressivism
Epistemic expressivism is the application of a nexus of ideas, which is prominent in ethical theory (more specifically, metaethics), to parallel issues in epistemological theory (more specifically, metaepistemology). Here, in order to help those new to the debate come to grips with epistemic expressivism and recent discussions of it, I first briefly present this nexus of ideas as it occurs in ethical expressivism. Then, I explain why and how some…
Perceived Correlates of Domain‐Specific Physical Activity in Rural Adults in the Midwest
PURPOSE: In response to calls for more specificity when measuring physical activity, this study examined perceived correlates of this behavior in rural adults separately by the domain in which this behavior occurs (ie, home care, work, active living, and sport). METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was completed by 407 adults from 2 rural towns in the Midwest. The questionnaire assessed the perceived social and physical environment, including neighb…
The meaning of 'ought' beyond descriptivism and expressivism in metaethics: Beyond Descriptivism and Expressivism in Metaethics
The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word. This book develops a careful account of the semantics of 'ought' as a modal operator and uses this to motivate a novel inferentialist account of why ought-sentences have the meaning that they have. The inferentialist theory defended in this book agrees with descriptivist theories in metaethics that specifying the truth conditions of normative sentences is a central …
Philosophy for Everyone
Assessing sitting and standing in college students using height-adjustable desks
Objective: To examine if Arduino microcontrollers and Fitbits can serve as proxy measures for the direct observation of sitting and standing time in college students using height-adjustable standing desks. The preferred type of standing desks and reasons to use the desks were also assessed. Design: Classroom-based intervention, plus cross-sectional survey. Setting: Mid-sized Midwestern US university classroom. Method: Students were randomised to …
Performance normativity and here-and-now doxastic agency
Sosa famously argues that epistemic normativity is a species of “performance normativity,” comparing beliefs to archery shots. However, philosophers have traditionally conceived of beliefs as states , which means that they are not dynamic or telic like performances. A natural response to this tension is to argue that belief formation rather than belief itself is the proper target of epistemic normativity. This response is rejected here on grounds…
Challenges of Preparing Nursing Students for Practice: The Faculty Perspective
Background: A significant challenge facing nursing is new graduate RNs' unreadiness for practice. To better understand the issue, this study presents the challenges nursing faculty encounter in preparing nursing students for clinical practice through semi-structured interviews. Method: Eight faculty from a private midwestern university's prelicensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program participated in the study. A modified version of Col…
Resources Needed for Education and Meal Programs by Urban Schoolteachers and Staff During the 2019 Coronavirus Pandemic
Addressing these concerns can improve school and community health. Findings will inform efforts to enhance online teaching and improve and continue school meal programs as the world continues to be affected by COVID-19.
College Classroom Instructors Can Effectively Promote Standing among Students Provided with Standing Desks
Standing desks may reduce sedentary behaviors in college students. Students at one mid-size urban university in the Midwestern United States were randomized into intervention ( n = 21) and control groups ( n = 27) to assess standing time when given access to standing desks. The intervention group received visual and oral instructor prompts to stand, while the control received no prompts during a 50 min lecture. All students were provided with adj…
The Language of the Unheard: Rioting as a Speech Act
George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis on
Evidence-based Training to Improve Communication between Health Advocates and State Policymakers
Persuading state policymakers to adopt effective child health policies requires effective communication from health advocates. This study examined the effectiveness of evidence-based communication training among child obesity advocates and their state legislators. A health advocacy group conducted training using evidence-based strategies and health-related policy updates in one Midwestern State Capitol building in January 2020. Twenty-three healt…
Discursive Integrity and the Principles of Responsible Public Debate
This paper articulates a general distinction between two important communicative ideals—expressive sincerity and discursive integrity—and then uses it to analyze problems with political debate in contemporary democracies. In the context of philosophical discussions of different forms of trustworthiness and debates about deliberative democracy, self-knowledge, and moral testimony, the paper develops three arguments for the conclusion that, althoug…
Teachers’ and Principals’ Familiarity with School Wellness Policy: A Health Promoting Schools Assessment
The current study explored teacher and principal familiarity with school wellness polices in primary schools, including who serves on school wellness committees, and who should implement and enforce wellness policies in the school. An electronic survey guided by the Health Promoting Schools framework was administered from February to May 2020 to teachers and principals from one urban and one suburban school district in the Midwestern United State…
Epistemic normativity as autotelic: Why suspension and judgment aren’t like archery
We can evaluate what people do in relation to the effects of their doings. Often, the effect is the result of the agent trying to bring about some goal, and we evaluate what they have done by asking how well they have pursued the goal and whether they have achieved it. If someone is trying to bake a loaf of bread, for example, we can assess how well they did by asking how well they followed the recipe and whether the result matches what they were…
Inferentialist expressivism, an unequal marriage
Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Medical education (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (3 works)