A Perspectival Reading of Spinoza’s Essence-Existence Distinction
status: Published online
Ecological rationality and entrepreneurship: How entrepreneurs fit decision logics to decision content and structure
status: published
Fictional mechanism explanations : clarifying explanatory holes in engineering science
This paper discusses a class of mechanistic explanations employed in engineering science where the activities and organization of nonstandard entities (voids, cracks, pits horizontal ellipsis ) are cited as core factors responsible for failures. Given the use of mechanistic language by engineers and the manifestly mechanistic structure of these exp...
Late-action effect : heightened counterfactual potency and perceived outcome reversibility make actions closer to a defi...
We report a consistent effect in the evaluation of actions: later actions - specifically, actions that are closer to a final, positive outcome - are considered as contributing more to that outcome, compared to earlier actions. Twelve experiments (total n = 5658, six pre-registered, with U.S. American and British participants, manipulating action ti...
The goal-directed model as an alternative to reductionist and network approaches of psychopathology.
Published in Current opinion in psychology
As an alternative to biological reductionist and network approaches to psychopathology, we propose a nonreductionist mental-mechanistic approach. To illustrate this approach, we work out the implications of the goal-directed framework of Moors et al., which has the potential to explain the heterogeneous manifestations of psychopathology with a rest...
Caution against examining the role of reverse causality in Mendelian Randomization.
Published in Genetic epidemiology
Recently, Mendelian Randomization (MR) has gained in popularity as a concept to assess the causal relationship between phenotypes in genetic association studies. An extension of standard MR methodology, the MR Steiger approach, has recently been developed to infer the causal direction between two phenotypes in prospective studies. Through simulatio...
Entrepreneurial resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic : navigating survival, continuity and growth
Purpose – This study aims to explore how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia display resilience in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative research design was used, which involved semi-structured interviews on five creative industry-based businesses in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A narrative inqu...
Environmental criminology in the big data era
This study examines to what extent new and emerging data sources or big data have been empirically used to measure key theoretical concepts within environmental criminology. By means of a scoping review, aimed at studies published between 2005 and 2018, insight is provided into the characteristics of studies that used big data sources within enviro...
Are the Relationships of Lean Mass and Fat Mass With Bone Microarchitecture Causal or Due to Familial Confounders? A Nov...
Published in JBMR plus
It is not known whether the relationships of lean mass (LM) and fat mass (FM) with bone microarchitecture and geometry are causal and/or are because of confounders, including familial confounders arising from genetic and environment effects shared by relatives. We tested the hypotheses that: (i) LM is associated with cortical bone traits, (ii) FM i...
Constitutive relevance in cognitive science : the case of eye movements and cognitive mechanisms
In this paper I assess whether the recently proposed "No De-Coupling" (NDC) theory of constitutive relevance in mechanisms is a useful tool to reconstruct constitutive relevance investigations in scientific practice. The NDC theory has been advanced as a framework theoretically superior to the mutual manipulability (MM) account of constitutive rele...
