Stuff I've been reading (April 2025)

By Os Keyes

Books and dissertations

  • None

Papers and Chapters

  • Beaver, Donald deB. “Does collaborative research have greater epistemic authority?.” Scientometrics 60 (2004): 399-408.
  • Blagg, Christopher R. “The early history of dialysis for chronic renal failure in the United States: a view from Seattle.” American Journal of Kidney Diseases 49.3 (2007): 482-496.
  • Brown, Warren C., and Rory Cox. “Violence and order past and present.” Global intellectual history (2023): 1-16.
  • Erbay, Borabay, and Kelly Joyce. “Opening the Black Box of AI: A Sociological Study of AI as a Network.” Journal of economy, culture and society (2025).
  • Funer, Florian. “The deception of certainty: how non-interpretable machine learning outcomes challenge the epistemic authority of physicians. A deliberative-relational approach.” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 25.2 (2022): 167-178.
  • Oles, Norah, Rodrigo Fontenele, and Margarita Abi Zeid Daou. “Transgender History, Part II: A Brief History of Medical and Surgical Gender‐Affirming Care.” Behavioral Sciences & the Law (2025).
  • Lushenko, Paul, and Robert Sparrow. “Artificial intelligence and US military cadets’ attitudes about future war.” Armed Forces & Society (2024): 0095327X241284264.
  • Peitzman, Steven J. “Chronic Dialysis and Dialysis Doctors in the United States: A Nephrologist‐Historian’s Perspective.” Seminars in dialysis. Vol. 14. No. 3. Boston, MA, USA: Blackwell Science Inc, 2001.
  • Pierson, Robert. “The epistemic authority of expertise.” PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. Vol. 1994. No. 1. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Rettig, Richard A. “Origins of the Medicare kidney disease entitlement: the Social Security Amendments of 1972.” Biomedical politics (1991): 176-214.
  • Sanford, Sallie Thieme. “What scribner wrought: how the invention of modern dialysis shaped health law and policy.” Rich. JL & Pub. Int. 13 (2009): 337.
  • Taylor, Simon Michael, Kalervo N. Gulson, and Duncan McDuie-Ra. “Artificial intelligence from colonial india: Race, statistics, and facial recognition in the global south.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 48.3 (2023): 663-689.
  • Ulrich, Beth, et al. “The 50th Anniversary of the Implementation of PL 92-603: A Major Change in the Care of Patients with End Stage Kidney Disease.” Nephrology Nursing Journal 50.4 (2023).
  • Walzer, Michael. “The crime of aggressive war.” Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 6 (2007): 635.

Fiction

  • The entire “Dungeon Crawler Carl” series
  • Sebastian de Castell’s new “Play of Shadows”
  • Meghan O’Keefe’s “The Blighted Stars”