Brian D. Earp, PhD

Systems thinking in gender and medicine | Journal of Medical Ethics

Science becomes trustworthy by constantly questioning itself What happens when the greatest strengths of science, such as openness, humility, self-criticism and self-correction, are exploited for political gain? This Perspective calls for scientists to affirm…

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A qualitative study of true self judgments, epistemic access, and medical decision-making | Journal of Medical Ethics jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

A critical examination of execution drugs in the USA: historical perspectives and ethical debates | Journal of Medical Ethics jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

Robots and sexual ethics | Journal of Medical Ethics jme.bmj.com/content/47/1/1

The strain on scientific publishing | Quantitative Science Studies | MIT Press direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Full article: Folk Concepts of Race, Cross-culturally www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Rachel Calcott & Brian D. Earp review 'A relational moral theory: African ethics in and beyond the continent', edited by Thaddeus Metz doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Protection of Male and Female Sexed Children from Genital Cutting: Making Sense of Recent Legal Developments 31 Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice 2024-2025 heinonline.org/HOL/LandingP...

Moral Permissibility and Desert in the Therapy-Enhancement Distinction | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core Moral Permissibility and Desert in the Therapy-Enhancement Distinction

Moral Permissibility and Desert in the Therapy-Enhancement Distinction | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How to Use AI Ethically for Ethical Decision-Making www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Male circumcision for HIV prevention – Where are we now? This special issue of the journal Culture, Health & Sexuality journal aims to explore the complex interplay, tensions and effects of male circumcision and HIV prevention through several themes.

Male circumcision for HIV prevention – Where are we now? think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Genital examinations in cases of suspected ‘female genital mutilation’ in Sweden 1982–2022: lawful decisions resulting in structural injustice - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Genital examinations in cases of suspected ‘female genital mutilation’ in Sweden 1982–2022: lawful decisions resulting in...

Genital examinations in cases of suspected ‘female genital mutilation’ in Sweden 1982–2022: lawful decisions resulting in structural injustice | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Does Automated Consent Undermine Informed Consent? - Philosophy & Technology The problem of self-managing one’s online privacy by reading and accepting numerous privacy policies—that are often long and hard to understand—is familiar as it is difficult. Only a small percentage…

Does Automated Consent Undermine Informed Consent? - Philosophy & Technology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Guest Post: Body Shaming is Unacceptable, Even if Directed at Vile People. An Intersex Critique of “Small Dick Energy” | Practical Ethics blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2023/01/gues...

Enlightened Beneficence: A Kantian Alternative to Effective Altruism - Res Publica In this paper I develop a Kantian alternative to effective altruism, which I call enlightened beneficence. Firstly, I argue that a Kantian framework, based on the standard of universalizability and…

Enlightened Beneficence: A Kantian Alternative to Effective Altruism - Res Publica link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A Novel Type of Precautionary Argument for Situations of Severe Uncertainty in Science and Policy - Roberto Fumagalli, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Gender identity development and coming out among transgender and gender diverse youth: A qualitative study on youth and parental experiences in Singapore doi.org/10.1080/2689...

Frontiers to retract 122 articles, links thousands in other publishers’ journals to “unethical” network The publisher Frontiers has begun retracting a batch of 122 articles across five journals after an investigation found a network of authors and editors engaged in “unethical actions” such as manipu…

Frontiers to retract 122 articles, links thousands in other publishers’ journals to “unethical” network retractionwatch.com/2025/07/29/f...

🚨 Global BioXPhi Research Initiative 🚨 Assessing Replicability and Cross-Cultural Generalisability of Experimental Philosophical Bioethics (@bioxphi) studies! Exciting initiative led by Ivar Hannikainen (@moralsciencelab) and @briandavidearp (@NUS_CBmE) www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/

🚨 Global BioXPhi Research Initiative 🚨 Assessing Replicability and Cross-Cultural Generalisability of Experimental Philosophical Bioethics (@bioxphi) studies! Exciting initiative led by Ivar Hannikainen (@moralsciencelab) and @briandavidearp (@NUS_CBmE) www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/

We’re hiring a junior colleague in AP @au-spa.bsky.social

Please share broadly & questions can come to me! (I’m chair!)

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Johns Hopkins Press will license its books to train AI models Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.

“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”

Digital Doppelgängers, Human Relationships, and Practical Identity www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

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Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions

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Here’s the full call for editors.

Wider than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World onto the Brain This paper reevaluates the conventional topographic model of brain function, stressing the critical role of philosophical inquiry in neuroscience. Since the 1930s, pioneering studies by Penfield and…

PsyArXiv Preprints | Wider than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World onto the Brain osf.io/z9jqx_v2/

First Workshop in the Philosophy of Psychiatry in Chile A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.

Philosophy of psychiatry is a rapidly developing field, in April the first dedicated academic event of the field happened in Chile. Organized by the Universidad de Valparaíso School of Psychology and the Valparaíso Institute of Complex Systems.

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Important new paper; how 'garbage in, garbage out' models can have outsized mal effects on public health: "Ethics of Mathematical Modeling in Public Health: The Case of Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Africa" academic.oup.com/phe/article-...

@bmj.com The Journal of Medical Ethics, listed as number one for #bioethics on google scholar scholar.google.com/citations?vi... @briandavidearp.bsky.social