Overview

OFFICE HOURS: Wednesday 10.00-11.00, Thursday 10.00-11.00,  via Zoom.

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Research

My research work is primarily concerned with the intersections of ethics, legal and political philosophy, the philosophy of language and linguistics, and the philosophy of biology and medicine. I see these as closely-intertwined aspects of a general philosophical anthropology,  clustered around the so-called “fact/value distinction”, and I aim to investigate what it is to be human through the prism of what I take to be an inherently public sort of phenomenological normativity which permeates human experience.

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Publications

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2024

• Stein DJ, Nielsen K, Hartford A, Gagné-Julien A-M, Glackin S, Friston K, Maj M, Zachar P, Aftab A. (2024) Philosophy of psychiatry: theoretical advances and clinical implications, World Psychiatry, volume 23, no. 2, pages 215-232, DOI:10.1002/wps.21194.

2023

• Glackin SN. (2023) Expressive Responding, Experimental Philosophy, and Philosophical Expertise, Review of Philosophy and Psychology, DOI:10.1007/s13164-023-00686-w. [PDF]
• Glackin SN, Ahmed S. (2023) Editorial: Philosophy and addiction, Behav Brain Res, volume 437, DOI:10.1016/j.bbr.2022.114134. [PDF]

2021

• Conley BA, Glackin SN. (2021) How to Be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist about Diseases, Philosophy of Medicine, volume 2, no. 1, DOI:10.5195/pom.2021.18.
• Glackin SN. (2021) Obligations of Conscience, Journal of Moral Philosophy, volume 19, no. 1, pages 1-24, DOI:10.1163/17455243-20212990.
• Glackin S, Kim M. (2021) Understanding Public Opinion Is Critical for Making Public Policy Democratically, Eval Health Prof, volume 44, no. 4, pages 344-347, DOI:10.1177/01632787211018242. [PDF]
• Conley B, Glackin S. (2021) How to be a Naturalist *and* a Social Constructivist about Diseases, Philosophy of Medicine, volume 2, DOI:10.5195/philmed.2021.18.
• Glackin SN, Roberts T, Krueger J. (2021) Out of our heads: Addiction and psychiatric externalism, Behavioural Brain Research, volume 398, DOI:10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112936.

2020

• Glackin S. (2020) Philosophical Issues in the Addictions, The Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions, Cambridge University Press, 38-50.
• Sussman S, Kattari SK, Baezconde-Garbanati L, Glackin SN. (2020) Commentary: The Problems of Grouping All Adversity Into a Special Populations Label, Eval Health Prof, volume 43, no. 1, pages 66-70, DOI:10.1177/0163278719882738. [PDF]

2019

• Glackin SN, D'Ancona G. (2019) Ethical, philosophical, and practical considerations in adherence to therapy in sleep medicine, Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, volume 25, no. 6, pages 609-613, DOI:10.1097/MCP.0000000000000626.
• Glackin SN. (2019) Grounded disease: Constructing the social from the biological in medicine, Philosophical Quarterly, volume 69, no. 275, pages 258-276, DOI:10.1093/pq/pqy063.
• Glackin SN. (2019) DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH (ed.), How Biology Shapes Philosophy: New Foundations for Naturalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, xiv + 351 pp., £78.99 (£21.99 paperback, 2019), Hist Philos Life Sci, volume 41, no. 2, DOI:10.1007/s40656-019-0255-0. [PDF]

2018

• Glackin SN. (2018) Grounded Disease: The Biological and the Social in Medicine, The Philosophical Quarterly, volume 69, no. 275, pages 258-276, DOI:10.1093/pq/pqy063.

2017

• Glackin SN. (2017) Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter, QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY, volume 92, no. 3, pages 297-298, DOI:10.1086/693569. [PDF]

2016

• Glackin SN. (2016) Parsing placebo treatments: a response to Barnhill and Miller, J Med Ethics, volume 42, no. 10, pages 687-689, DOI:10.1136/medethics-2015-103082. [PDF]

2015

• Glackin SN. (2015) A Metaphysics of Psychopathology, JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, volume 32, no. 2, pages 217-219, DOI:10.1111/japp.12096. [PDF]
• Glackin SN. (2015) Placebo treatments, informed consent and 'the grip of a false picture', J Med Ethics, volume 41, no. 8, pages 669-672, DOI:10.1136/medethics-2014-102332. [PDF]

2014

• Glackin SN. (2014) Health, Illness, and Disease: Philosophical Essays, BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, volume 65, no. 2, pages 413-417, DOI:10.1093/bjps/axt025. [PDF]
• Glackin SN. (2014) Back to bundles: Deflating property rights, again, Legal Theory, volume 20, no. 1, pages 1-24, DOI:10.1017/S1352325213000153.
• Glackin SN. (2014) Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper health, illness, and disease: Philosophical essays, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, volume 65, no. 2, pages 413-417, DOI:10.1093/bjps/axt025.
• Glackin SN. (2014) BACK TO BUNDLES: DEFLATING PROPERTY RIGHTS, AGAIN, Legal Theory.

2013

• Glackin SN, Mills SK. (2013) “Termination of Pregnancy, Article 40.3.3, and the Law of Intended Consequences”, Irish Journal of Legal Studies, volume 3 (3), pages 76-91.
• Adlam J, Gill I, Glackin SN, Kelly BD, Scanlon C, Mac Suibhne S. (2013) Perspectives on Erving Goffman's "Asylums" fifty years on, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, volume 16, no. 3, pages 605-613, DOI:10.1007/s11019-012-9410-z.
• Adlam J, Gill I, Glackin SN, Kelly BD, Scanlon C, Mac Suibhne S. (2013) Perspectives on Erving Goffman's "Asylums" fifty years on, Med Health Care Philos, volume 16, no. 3, pages 605-613, DOI:10.1007/s11019-012-9410-z. [PDF]

2012

• Glackin SN. (2012) Kind-Making, objectivity, and political neutrality; the case of Solastalgia, Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci, volume 43, no. 1, pages 209-218, DOI:10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.11.012. [PDF]

2011

• Glackin SN. (2011) Universal grammar and the Baldwin effect: A hypothesis and some philosophical consequences, Biology and Philosophy, volume 26, no. 2, pages 201-222, DOI:10.1007/s10539-010-9225-3.

2010

• Glackin SN. (2010) Tolerance and illness: the politics of medical and psychiatric classification, J Med Philos, volume 35, no. 4, pages 449-465, DOI:10.1093/jmp/jhq035. [PDF]

2008

• Glackin SN. (2008) Dolphin natures, human virtues: MacIntyre and ethical naturalism, Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci, volume 39, no. 3, pages 292-297, DOI:10.1016/j.shpsc.2008.06.003. [PDF]

2006

• Glackin S. (2006) THE QUINED-UP HERD CHRONICLES, Metascience, volume 15, no. 2, pages 389-393, DOI:10.1007/s11016-006-9023-3.

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Teaching

Modules taught

• PHL1006 - Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
• PHL1007 - Philosophical Reading 1
• PHL1013 - Philosophy of Morality
• PHL2018 - Philosophy of Language
• PHL3018 - Sex and Death: Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology
• PHL3026 - Philosophy of Science
• SOCM016 - Cultures of the Life Sciences
• SOCM945 - Philosophy of Science

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Biography

Following a B.A. and M.Litt at Trinity College Dublin, I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Leeds in 2008. I also hold a Masters in Legal Science from the National University of Ireland. I have previously lectured in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, the University of Warwick, and Oxford Brookes University.

My research is primarily concerned with the so-called "fact-value distinction"; in particular I am currently interested in the interaction between evaluative claims about human well-being and scientific claims about human biology in the philosophy of medicine, and in the evolution of human normative institutions such as public language. More generally, my concern is with the way that the ethical, political, and legal value-claims typical of modern liberal democracies shape and respond to the findings of biological, medical, and other sciences.

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