Stuff I've been reading (August 2026)

By Os Keyes

Slowness as a result of job market shit and paper publications (more on that soon!)

Books and dissertations

  • Childress, James F. Who Should Decide?. Oxford University Press, 1982.
  • Stryker, Susan. Changing Gender. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2026.

Papers and Chapters

  • Avins, Andrew L. “Can unequal be more fair? Ethics, subject allocation, and randomised clinical trials.” Journal of medical ethics 24, no. 6 (1998): 401-408.
  • Campolo, Alexander. “Labels and Emotions: Machine Learning’s Scientific Objects.” P&D-Philosophy & Digitality 2, no. 2 (2025): 190-200.
  • Carpenter, Daniel. “Agenda democracy.” Annual Review of Political Science 26, no. 1 (2023): 193-212.
  • Childress, James F. “Who shall live when not all can live?.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 53, no. 4 (1970): 339-355
  • Hall, M. A., & Schneider, C. E. (2008). Learning from the legal history of billing for medical fees. Journal of general internal medicine, 23(8), 1257-1260.
  • Lowery, David, and Virginia Gray. “A neopluralist perspective on research on organized interests.” Political Research Quarterly 57, no. 1 (2004): 164-175.
  • Ortmann, Jakob. “But what is ‘Performativity of Science’? Austin, Perlocutionary Sequels, and Referent Malleability.” Philosophy of Science: 1-28.
  • Petersen, Imme, Harald Heinrichs, and Hans Peter Peters. “Mass-mediated expertise as informal policy advice.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 35, no. 6 (2010): 865-887.

Fiction and fun

  • Dan Abnett, “HIVE”
  • William Crowe, “Veterans of the Fall”
  • Robert Rath, “The Wicked and the Warped”