I've mainly worked on the harms of scientism and the anti-scientism of various folks, especially Paul Feyerabend and Mary Midgley.

• 'Varieties of Humanism and Conceptions of Science', Anjan Chakravartty (ed.), Science and Humanism (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2024/25), forthcoming.* 
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• 'Pseudoscience after Feyerabend', with Chiara Ambrosio, Anthony Morgan (ed.), Science, Anti-Science, Pseudoscience, Truth (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bigg Books, 2024), forthcoming.*

• 'Feyerabend on Human Life, Abstraction, and the "Conquest of Abundance", Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, 2024. Special issue: “Science in a Free Society. On Paul Feyerabend’s Intellectual Legacy”. Edited by Olga E. Stoliarova.*
  • I interpret anti-scientism as a main aspect of Feyerabend's 'conquest of abundance' narrative.​​  

 

• ‘Conceptions of Philosophy and the Challenges of Scientism’, Moti Mizrahi (ed.) Scientism: For and Against (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), 75-86.*

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• ‘Feyerabend, Science, and Scientism’, Karim Bschir and Jamie Shaw (eds.), Interpreting Feyerabend (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 172-190.*

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• ‘Scientism and the ‘Soul of Philosophy’’, Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8 (11) (2019): 52-54. 

 

• ‘Is Scientism Epistemically Vicious?’, Jeroen de Ridder, Rik Peels, and René van Woudenberg (eds.) Scientism: Prospects and Problems (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 222-249.

 

• ‪Wittgenstein and Scientism‪, co-edited with Jonathan Beale (London: Routledge, 2017).
  • ​Review: Anna Boncompagni, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 5 July 2018.
  • ​Review: John Edelman, Philosophical Investigations (2018): 475-480.
  • ​Review: Mariam Thalos, ‘Philosophy in an Age of Science’, Metascience 28.1 (2019): 51-53.
  • ​Review: Ryan Manhire, British Wittgenstein Society Newsletter, 11 January 2019.

 

• ‪‘Introduction: Wittgenstein and Scientism’, Jonathan Beale and Ian James Kidd (eds.), Wittgenstein and Scientism (London: Routledge, 2017), 1-6.

 

• ‪‘Reawakening to Wonder: Wittgenstein, Feyerabend, and Scientism’, in Jonathan Beale and Ian James Kidd (eds.), Wittgenstein and Scientism (London: Routledge, 2017), 101-115.

 

• ‪‘Doing Science an Injustice: Midgley on Scientism’, Ian James Kidd and Elizabeth McKinnell (eds.), Science and the Self: Animals, Evolution, and Ethics: Essays in Honour of Mary Midgley (London: Routledge, 2015: 151-167.

 

• ‪‘Historical Contingency and the Impact of Scientific Imperialism’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 27.3 (2013): 317–326.
  • Steve Clarke and Adrian Walsh, ‘Imperialism, Progress, Developmental Teleology, and Interdisciplinary Unification’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 27.3 (2014): 341-351.

 

• ‪‘Humane Philosophy and the Question of Progress’, Ratio XXV, no. 3 (2012): 277-290.

 

• ‘Receptivity to Mystery’, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4.3 (2012): 51-68.

 

• 'Three Cheers for Science and Philosophy! Reflections on Hawking's The Grand Design', Think: Royal Institute of Philosophy 10 (2011: 37-41.​

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