Philosophers call for their journals to require conflict of interest disclosures
Philosophers call for their journals to require conflict of interest disclosures
- July 6, 2026
- Cailin O’Connor, logic & philosophy of science, weighs in via Science
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One of humanity’s oldest disciplines, philosophy’s conceptual nature has historically kept it at arm’s length from industry. That gap is closing. “In the last 5 years, there’s been much, much more connection between industry and philosophy,” says Cailin O’Connor, a philosopher of science at UC Irvine who co-led the creation of the petition with [Craig] Callender. … But the relationships can also become a slippery slope, O’Connor says.
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