Publications


Bioethics


Pursuit-worthy research in health: Three case studies and a suggestion.


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science


What are we asking patients to do? A critical ethical review of the limits of patient self-advocacy in the oncology setting


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Teresa Hagan Thomas

The New Bioethics, vol. 29, 2023, pp. 181--190


In Defense of Vaccine Mandates: An Argument from Consent Rights


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Christa M. Johnson

Public Health Ethics, 2022


When Law and Ethics Come Apart: Constraints vs. Guidance


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Christine Durmis

Nursing Ethics, vol. 29, 2022 Oct, pp. 1430--1440


Ethical Considerations in Communicating Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Biomarker Test Results to Symptomatic Individuals


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Staci L. Orbell, Jennifer H. Lingler

Neurotherapeutics, vol. 18, 2021, pp. 673--685


Improving informed consent by enhancing the role of nurses


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Grace Campbell

Nursing ethics, vol. 28, 2021, pp. 575--584


Philosophy of Disability


Contextualism about disability.


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Christa M. Johnson

Res Philosophica


Living with Autism: Quus-ing in a Plus-ers World


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Res Philosophica


A passing problem: Evaluating harm and benefit in autism research


Ari Ne'eman, K Richman, Allison McCarthy, Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Ethics \& human research, 2023


Ethical Concerns with Applied Behavior Analysis for Autism Spectrum Disorder


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Allison McCarthy

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 30, 2020, pp. 31--69


Living with Autism: Quus-ing in a Plus-ers World


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Res Philosophica, vol. 97, 2019, pp. 53--68


Philosophy of Science


Understanding Necessarily and Understanding Actually


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Journal for General Philosophy of Science


Dimensions of wisdom perception across twelve countries on five continents


Maksim Rudnev, H. Clark Barrett, Wesley Buckwalter, Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich, Kelli Barr, Abdellatif Bencherifa, Rockwell F. Clancy, Damien L. Crone, Yasuo Deguchi

Nature communications, vol. 15, 2024, p. 6375


Integrating Philosophy of Understanding with the Cognitive Sciences


Kareem Khalifa, Farhan Islam, J. P. Gamboa, Daniel Wilkenfeld, Daniel Kostić

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, vol. 16, 2022


Understanding metaphorical understanding (literally)


Michael T. Stuart, Daniel Wilkenfeld

European Journal for Philosophy of Science, vol. 12, 2022, p. 49


Objectually Understanding Informed Consent


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Analytic Philosophy, vol. 62, 2021, pp. 33--56


Explanation classification depends on understanding: extending the epistemic side-effect effect


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Tania Lombrozo

Synthese, vol. 197, 2020, pp. 2565--2592


Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Science


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Richard Samuels

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019


Mechanistic vs. Functional Understanding


Tania Lombrozo, Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Stephen R. Grimm, Christoph Baumberger, Sabine Ammon, Explaining {Understanding}: {New} {Perspectives} from {Epistemology} and {Philosophy} of {Science}, Routledge, New York, 2019


Understanding as Compression


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Philosophical Studies, vol. 176, 2019, pp. 2807--2831


Understanding for Hire


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Christa Johnson

Journal for General Philosophy of Science, vol. 50, 2019, pp. 389--405


Folk Attributions of Understanding: Is There a Role for Epistemic Luck?


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Dillon Plunkett, Tania Lombrozo

Episteme, vol. 15, 2018, pp. 24--49


Contextual Utility Affects the Perceived Quality of Explanations


Nadya Vasilyeva, Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Tania Lombrozo

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, vol. 24, 2017, pp. 1436--1450


MUDdy Understanding


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Synthese, vol. 194, 2017, pp. 1273--1293


The explanatory effect of a label: Explanations with named categories are more satisfying


Carly Giffin, Daniel Wilkenfeld, Tania Lombrozo

Cognition, vol. 168, 2017, pp. 357--369


Depth and Deference: When and Why We Attribute Understanding


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Dillon Plunkett, Tania Lombrozo

Philosophical Studies, vol. 173, 2016, pp. 373--393


Understanding without Believing


Daniel Wilkenfeld

Stephen R. Grimm, Christoph Baumberger, Sabine Ammon, Explaining {Understanding}: {New} {Perspectives} from {Epistemology} and {Philosophy} of {Science}, Routledge, New York, 2016


Inference to the best explanation (IBE) versus explaining for the best inference (EBI)


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Tania Lombrozo

Science \& Education, vol. 24, 2015, pp. 1059--1077


Functional Explaining: A New Approach to the Philosophy of Explanation


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Synthese, vol. 191, 2014, pp. 3367--3391


Understanding beyond grasping propositions: A discussion of chess and fish


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Jennifer K. Hellmann

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, vol. 48, 2014, pp. 46--51


Understanding as representation manipulability


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Synthese, vol. 190, 2013, pp. 997--1016


Misc?


Diagrams, images and conceptual maps in nursing education


Christine Durmis, Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Nursing Philosophy, 2023


Moral Understanding and Moral Illusions


Daniel Wilkenfeld

Thought, vol. 9, 2020 Mar, pp. 25--44


Estimating the reproducibility of experimental philosophy


Florian Cova, Brent Strickland, Angela Abatista, Aurélien Allard, James Andow, Mario Attie, James Beebe, Renatas Berniūnas, Jordane Boudesseul, Matteo Colombo

Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2018, pp. 1--36


Transformative Understanding Acquisition


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Res Philosophica, vol. 94, 2017, pp. 67--93


Modeling Authenticity


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

Res Philosophica, vol. 93, 2016, pp. 245--268


"Not Pictured": What Veronica Knew but Didn't See


Daniel A. Wilkenfeld

The {Blackwell} {Philosophy} and {Pop} {Culture} {Series}, George Dunn, Veronica {Mars} and {Philosophy}, Blackwell, Malden, MA, 2014, pp. 184--198