Dr Michael Hicks
- Lecturer in Philosophy of Science / Technology (Philosophy)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668Publications
2024
Hicks, Michael Townsen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668
(2024)
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)
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)
Articles
Hicks, Michael Townsen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1304-5668
(2024)
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)