Dr Michael Hicks

Lecturer in Philosophy of Science / Technology (Philosophy)

email: Michael.Hicks@glasgow.ac.uk

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668

Publications

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Number of items: 13.

2025

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2025) A practitioner's guide to pragmatic Humeanism. Philosophers' Imprint, (doi: 10.3998/phimp.2968) (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235, Humphries, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-4356 and Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2024) ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting! Scientific American, 17 July.

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668, Humphries, James and Slater, Joe (2024) Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Information Technology, 26, 46. (doi: 10.1007/s10676-024-09785-3)

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668, Humphries, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-4356 and Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235 (2024) ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Information Technology, 26, 38. (doi: 10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5)

2023

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 and Wilson, Alastair (2023) How chance explains. Noûs, 57(2), pp. 290-315. (doi: 10.1111/nous.12401)

2022

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2022) Counterparts and counterpossibles: Impossibility without impossible worlds. Journal of Philosophy, 119(10), pp. 542-574. (doi: 10.5840/jphil20221191035)

2021

Demarest, Heather and Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2021) Isolation, not locality. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 103(3), pp. 607-619. (doi: 10.1111/phpr.12731)

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2021) Breaking the explanatory circle. Philosophical Studies, 178(2), pp. 533-557. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-020-01444-9)

2019

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2019) What everyone should say about symmetries (and how Humeans get to say it). Philosophy of Science, 86(5), pp. 1284-1294. (doi: 10.1086/705475)

2018

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2018) Dynamic Humeanism. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 69(4), pp. 983-1007. (doi: 10.1093/bjps/axx006)

2017

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2017) Making fit fit. Philosophy of Science, 84(5), pp. 931-943. (doi: 10.1086/693967)

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 and Schaffer, Jonathan (2017) Derivative properties in fundamental laws. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 68(2), pp. 411-450. (doi: 10.1093/bjps/axv039)

2015

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 and van Elswyk, Peter (2015) Humean laws and circular explanation. Philosophical Studies, 172(2), pp. 433-443. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-014-0310-3)

This list was generated on Sat Nov 8 22:12:23 2025 GMT.

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Number of items: 13.

Articles

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2025) A practitioner's guide to pragmatic Humeanism. Philosophers' Imprint, (doi: 10.3998/phimp.2968) (Accepted for Publication)

Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235, Humphries, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-4356 and Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2024) ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting! Scientific American, 17 July.

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668, Humphries, James and Slater, Joe (2024) Correction: ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Information Technology, 26, 46. (doi: 10.1007/s10676-024-09785-3)

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668, Humphries, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6755-4356 and Slater, Joe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-7235 (2024) ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Information Technology, 26, 38. (doi: 10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5)

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 and Wilson, Alastair (2023) How chance explains. Noûs, 57(2), pp. 290-315. (doi: 10.1111/nous.12401)

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2022) Counterparts and counterpossibles: Impossibility without impossible worlds. Journal of Philosophy, 119(10), pp. 542-574. (doi: 10.5840/jphil20221191035)

Demarest, Heather and Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2021) Isolation, not locality. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 103(3), pp. 607-619. (doi: 10.1111/phpr.12731)

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2021) Breaking the explanatory circle. Philosophical Studies, 178(2), pp. 533-557. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-020-01444-9)

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2019) What everyone should say about symmetries (and how Humeans get to say it). Philosophy of Science, 86(5), pp. 1284-1294. (doi: 10.1086/705475)

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2018) Dynamic Humeanism. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 69(4), pp. 983-1007. (doi: 10.1093/bjps/axx006)

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 (2017) Making fit fit. Philosophy of Science, 84(5), pp. 931-943. (doi: 10.1086/693967)

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 and Schaffer, Jonathan (2017) Derivative properties in fundamental laws. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 68(2), pp. 411-450. (doi: 10.1093/bjps/axv039)

Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668 and van Elswyk, Peter (2015) Humean laws and circular explanation. Philosophical Studies, 172(2), pp. 433-443. (doi: 10.1007/s11098-014-0310-3)

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