Stuff I've been reading (November 2024)

By Os Keyes

Things I finished reading in November 2024:

Books and dissertations

  • Brown, Nik, and Brian Rappert. Contested futures: A sociology of prospective techno-science. Routledge, 2017.
  • Cherry, Myisha. Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better. Princeton University Press, 2023.
  • Weir, Lorna, and Eric Mykhalovskiy. Global public health vigilance: creating a world on alert. Routledge, 2010.

Papers and Chapters

  • Bakker, Sjoerd, and Björn Budde. “Technological hype and disappointment: lessons from the hydrogen and fuel cell case.” Technology analysis & strategic management 24.6 (2012): 549-563.
  • Borup, Mads, et al. “The sociology of expectations in science and technology.” Technology analysis & strategic management 18.3-4 (2006): 285-298.
  • Cap, Piotr. “Alternative futures in political discourse.” Discourse & Society 32.3 (2021): 328-345.
  • Elliott, Kevin C., and David B. Resnik. “Science, policy, and the transparency of values.” Environmental health perspectives 122.7 (2014): 647-650.
  • Elliott, Kevin C. “The value-ladenness of transparency in science: lessons from Lyme disease.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 88 (2021): 1-9.
  • Elliott, Kevin C. “A taxonomy of transparency in science.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 52.3 (2022): 342-355.
  • Elliott, Kevin C., and Rebecca Korf. “Values in science: what are values, anyway?.” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 14.4 (2024): 53.
  • Erikainen, Sonja, and Sarah Chan. “Contested futures: envisioning “Personalized,”“Stratified,” and “Precision” medicine.” New Genetics and Society 38.3 (2019): 308-330.
  • Gebru, Timnit, and Émile P. Torres. “The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence.” First Monday (2024).
  • Goldenberg, Maya J. “Iconoclast or creed?: objectivism, pragmatism, and the hierarchy of evidence.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 52.2 (2009): 168-187.
  • Goldenberg, Maya J. “Placebo orthodoxy and the double standard of care in multinational clinical research.” Theoretical medicine and bioethics 36 (2015): 7-23.
  • Guston, David H. “Stabilizing the boundary between US politics and science: The role of the Office of Technology Transfer as a boundary organization.” Social studies of science 29.1 (1999): 87-111.
  • Guston, David H. “Understanding ‘anticipatory governance’.” Social studies of science 44.2 (2014): 218-242.
  • Ioannidis, Iraklis. “Shackling the poor, or effective altruism: A critique of the philosophical foundation of effective altruism.” Conatus-Journal of Philosophy 5.2 (2020): 25-46.
  • Kessler, Asher. “Longtermism, Big Tech, and the Rebalancing of Historical Time: A Benjaminian Critique.” International Journal of Communication 18 (2024): 19.
  • Maclean, Mairi, et al. “Elite philanthropy in the United States and United Kingdom in the new age of inequalities.” International journal of management reviews 23.3 (2021): 330-352.
  • Steele, Katie. “The scientist qua policy advisor makes value judgments.” Philosophy of Science 79.5 (2012): 893-904.
  • Strange, Michael. “Three different types of AI hype in healthcare.” AI and Ethics (2024): 1-8.
  • Taavetti, Riikka. “Low on the Kinsey scale: Homosexuality in Swedish and Finnish sex research, 1960s–1990s.” History of the Human Sciences (2024): 09526951241245040.
  • De Togni, Giulia, et al. “Beyond the hype:‘acceptable futures’ for AI and robotic technologies in healthcare.” AI & Society 39.4 (2024): 2009-2018.