Here you can read about some of what I've been thinking and writing.
Publications on Bioethics and Value Theory
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A., and Teresa Hagan Thomas. 2023. “What are We Asking Patients to Do? A Critical Ethical Review of the Limits of Patient Self-Advocacy in the Oncology Setting.” The New Bioethics 29 (2): 181-190.
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A., & Christine Durmis. 2022. “When Law and Ethics Come Apart: Constraints vs. Guidance.” Nursing Ethics 29 (6): 1430-1440.
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A., and Christa Johnson. 2022. “In Defense of Vaccine Mandates: An Argument from Consent Rights.” Public Health Ethics 15 (1): 27-40.
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A., Staci Orbell, & Jennifer Lingler. 2021. “Ethical Considerations in Communicating Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Biomarker Test Results to Symptomatic Individuals.” Neurotherapeutics 18 (2): 673-685.
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A., and Grace Campbell. 2021. “Improving Informed Consent by Enhancing the Role of Nurses.” Nursing Ethics 28 (4): 575-584.
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A. 2020. “Moral Understanding and Moral Illusions.” Thought 9 (1): 25–44.
———2021. “Objectually Understanding Informed Consent.” Analytic Philosophy, 62 (1): 33-56.
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A., and Allison McCarthy. 2020. “Ethical Concerns with Applied Behavior Analysis for Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 30 (1): 31–69.
Publications on Disability
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A. 2020. “Living with Autism: Quus-ing in a Plus-ers World.” Res Philosophica, 97 (1): 53-68
Ne’eman, Ari, K Richman, Allison McCarthy, and Daniel A. Wilkenfeld. 2023. “A Passing Problem: Evaluating Harm and Benefit in Autism Research.” Ethics & Human Research.
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A. In Press. “Understanding Necessarily and Understanding Actually.” Journal for General Philosophy of Science.
———. 2019. "Understanding as Compression." Philosophical Studies 176: 2807-2831.
———. 2017. “MUDdy Understanding.” Synthese 194 (4): 1273–93.
———. 2016. “Understanding without Believing.” In Explaining Understanding: New Perspectives from Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, edited by Stephen R. Grimm, Christoph Baumberger, and Sabine Ammon. New York: Routledge.
———.2013. “Understanding as Representation Manipulability.” Synthese 190 (6): 997–1016.
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A., and Jennifer K. Hellmann. 2014. “Understanding beyond Grasping Propositions: A Discussion of Chess and Fish.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 48: 46–51.
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A., and Christa Johnson. 2019. “Understanding for Hire.” Journal for General Philosophy of Science 50 (3): 389–405.
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A., Dillon Plunkett, and Tania Lombrozo. 2018. “Folk Attributions of Understanding: Is There a Role for Epistemic Luck?” Episteme 15 (1): 24-49.
———. 2016. “Depth and Deference: When and Why We Attribute Understanding.” Philosophical Studies 173 (2): 373–393.
Stuart, Michael T., and Daniel Wilkenfeld. 2022. “Understanding Metaphorical Understanding (Literally).” European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12 (3): 49.
Durmis, Christine, and Daniel A. Wilkenfeld. 2023. “Diagrams, Images and Conceptual Maps in Nursing Education.” Nursing Philosophy.
Publications on Understanding
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A. 2014. “Functional Explaining: A New Approach to the Philosophy of Explanation.” Synthese 191 (14): 3367–3391.
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A., and Tania Lombrozo. 2020. “Explanation Classification Depends on Understanding: Extending the Epistemic Side-Effect Effect.” Synthese 197 (6): 2565–92.
Giffin, Carly, Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, and Tania Lombrozo. 2018. "The Explanatory Effect of a Label: Explanations with Named Categories are More Satisfying." Cognition 168: 357-369.
Vasilyeva, Nadya, Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, and Tania Lombrozo. 2017. “Contextual Utility Affects the Perceived Quality of Explanations.” Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 24: 1436-1450.
Publications on Explanation
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A. 2017 . “Transformative Understanding Acquisition.” Res Philosophica 94 (1): 67–93.
———2016. “Modeling Authenticity.” Res Philosophica 93 (1): 245–268.
Publications on Transformative Experience
Wilkenfeld, Daniel A., and Tania Lombrozo. 2015. “Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) versus Explaining for the Best Inference (EBI).” Science & Education 24 (9–10): 1059–1077.
Lombrozo, Tania, and Daniel A. Wilkenfeld. 2019. “Mechanistic vs. Functional Understanding.” In Explaining Understanding: New Perspectives from Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, edited by Stephen R. Grimm, Christoph Baumberger, and Sabine Ammon. New York: Routledge.
Durmis, Christine, and Daniel A. Wilkenfeld. 2023. “Diagrams, Images and Conceptual Maps in Nursing Education.” Nursing Philosophy.
Publication on Explanation and Learning
“Abstracting Structural Explanations”
“Authentic MDMA Highs”
“Did he Hallucinate Because he has Scizophrena? The Explanatory Power of Mental Disorder Categories“ (co-authored with J. Gleason and T. Lombrozo)
“Evidence and Accuracy in Transformative Decisions”
“Meta-Transformative Experiences and the Daredevil Effect”
Works in Progress/Under Review: Ask for Drafts!
Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Science (co-editing with Richard Samuels. Bloomsbury Academic.
Simple Understanding: Understanding, Explanation, and How We Think About the World. (Under contract with Synthese Library)