Publications

  • Sherling, H. R. & Chin-Yee, B. (Under review). ‘Making room for trust: against “explainable AI”’.
  • Peters, U., Sherling, H. R., & Chin-Yee, B. (2024). ‘Hasty generalizations and generics in medical research: A systematic review’. PLoS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0306749
  • Sherling, H. R. & Swinn, E. (2024). ‘Philosophers in Schools: An assessment of the ongoing partnership between The Philosophy Foundation and King’s College London’s Philosophy Department’. Journal of Philosophy in Schools, 10(2). doi:10.46707/jps.v10i2.194

In progress

  • ‘Interactive disease kinds’. (Manuscript). Presented: EENPS 5th Biennial Conference. September 10, 2024. Jagiellonian University, Kraków.
  • ‘Values and psychiatric categories’. (Manuscript). Presented: Serious Metaphysics Group. May 23, 2024. University of Cambridge.

My PhD thesis (in progress) concerns how we represent kinds of people or human kinds in the human sciences, with a special focus on psychiatry and psychology.

Values in science collaboration

A collaborative project with Benjamin Chin-Yee. We address ’the new demarcation problem’ in science (as Holman and Wilholt have called it): the problem of demarcating legitimate value-ladenness in scientific judgment and communication. The project has so far resulted in two presentations and papers:

  • ‘Making room for trust: against “explainable AI”’. (Under review). Presented: Objectivity, values, and trust workshop. November 30, 2023. University of Cambridge; Values in science reading group. May 29, 2024. University of Cambridge.
  • ‘Clinical Communication: A Model for Scientific Advice?’ (Manuscript). Presented: 8th Stockholm Graduate Conference. December 7, 2023; Bergen Philosophy of Science Workshop. October 23, 2023; and the Cambridge-MCMP Workshop. September 23, 2023.

Socities and reading groups

  • Cambridge-London Philosophy of Medicine (Cambridge and KCL, 2024)
    • With Rivkah Hatchwell and Harriet Fagerberg
  • Secretary, Moral Sciences Club (Cambridge, 2023-2024)
    • With Alice Roberts and Sam Cole
  • The Genealogical Methods Reading Group (Cambridge, 2023)
    • With Andi Schubert and Benedikt Pètursson
  • Philosophy of Mental Disorder Reading Group (KCL, 2019-2021)
    • With Eveliina Ilola
  • Epistemology of Peer Disagreement Reading Group (KCL, 2018)
    • With Ariel de la Garza Davidoff and Chiara Zucchelli