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2025

Journal Article

Teachers’ (evolving) beliefs about critical thinking education during professional learning: a multi-case case study

Leibovitch, Yael M., Beencke, Andrew, Ellerton, Peter J., McBrien, Craig, Robinson-Taylor, Cara-Lee and Brown, Deborah J. (2025). Teachers’ (evolving) beliefs about critical thinking education during professional learning: a multi-case case study. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 56 101725, 101725. doi: 10.1016/j.tsc.2024.101725

Teachers’ (evolving) beliefs about critical thinking education during professional learning: a multi-case case study

2025

Book Chapter

Does Descartesʼ Mind–Body Union have a Real Definition?

Brown, Deborah J. (2025). Does Descartesʼ Mind–Body Union have a Real Definition?. Definition and Essence from Aristotle to Kant. (pp. 170-191) Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781003489252-9

Does Descartesʼ Mind–Body Union have a Real Definition?

2024

Book Chapter

Critical thinking

Ellerton, Peter, Leibovitch, Yael and Brown, Deborah (2024). Critical thinking. Teaching Middle Years. (pp. 244-256) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003458586-19

Critical thinking

2024

Book Chapter

Assessing in the Age of AI

Lodge, Jason M., Ellerton, Peter, Zaphir, Luke and Brown, Deborah (2024). Assessing in the Age of AI. Artificial Intelligence Applications in K-12. (pp. 24-37) New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003440192-3

Assessing in the Age of AI

2024

Journal Article

Investigating the impact of critical thinking instruction on writing performance: a multilevel modelling analysis of relative gain data in the Australian National Assessment Program

Normore, George, Leibovitch, Yael M., Brown, Deborah J., Pearson, Samuel, Mazzolo, Claudio, Ellerton, Peter J. and Watt, Glenn (2024). Investigating the impact of critical thinking instruction on writing performance: a multilevel modelling analysis of relative gain data in the Australian National Assessment Program. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 53 101546, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.tsc.2024.101546

Investigating the impact of critical thinking instruction on writing performance: a multilevel modelling analysis of relative gain data in the Australian National Assessment Program

2024

Journal Article

Making sense of feelings

Key, Brian and Brown, Deborah J (2024). Making sense of feelings. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2024 (1) niae034, niae034. doi: 10.1093/nc/niae034

Making sense of feelings

2024

Book Chapter

Anxiety, curiosity, and the fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth

Brown, Deborah J. (2024). Anxiety, curiosity, and the fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth. The moral psychology of anxiety. (pp. 41-62) edited by David Rondel and Samir Chopra. Lanham, MD USA: Rowman & Littlefield.

Anxiety, curiosity, and the fracturing of the Self: Descartes and Princess Elisabeth

2024

Book Chapter

Making sense of plant sense

Key, Brian and Brown, Deborah J. (2024). Making sense of plant sense. Philosophy of plant cognition: interdisciplinary perspectives. (pp. 189-209) edited by Gabriele Ferretti, Peter Schulte and Markus Wild. New York, NY, United States: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781003393375-14

Making sense of plant sense

2023

Journal Article

Nature, Artifice, and Discovery in Descartes’ Mechanical Philosophy

Brown, Deborah Jean (2023). Nature, Artifice, and Discovery in Descartes’ Mechanical Philosophy. Philosophies, 8 (5) 85, 1-15. doi: 10.3390/philosophies8050085

Nature, Artifice, and Discovery in Descartes’ Mechanical Philosophy

2023

Journal Article

What if worms were sentient? Insights into subjective experience from the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome

Zalucki, Oressia, Brown, Deborah J. and Key, Brian (2023). What if worms were sentient? Insights into subjective experience from the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome. Biology and Philosophy, 38 (5) 34, 1-25. doi: 10.1007/s10539-023-09924-y

What if worms were sentient? Insights into subjective experience from the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome

2023

Journal Article

Petticoat power? Mary Astell's appropriation of heroic virtue for women

Brown, Deborah J. and Broad, Jacqueline (2023). Petticoat power? Mary Astell's appropriation of heroic virtue for women. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 9 (2), 214-233. doi: 10.1017/apa.2022.6

Petticoat power? Mary Astell's appropriation of heroic virtue for women

2023

Journal Article

Introduction

Brown, Deborah (2023). Introduction. Australasian Philosophical Review, 7 (1), 1-8. doi: 10.1080/24740500.2024.2364397

Introduction

2023

Book Chapter

Foundations of Human and Animal Sensory Awareness: Descartes and Willis

Brown, Deborah and Key, Brian (2023). Foundations of Human and Animal Sensory Awareness: Descartes and Willis. Reading Descartes. (pp. 81-99) Florence: Firenze University Press. doi: 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.06

Foundations of Human and Animal Sensory Awareness: Descartes and Willis

2022

Journal Article

The social dimension of generosity in Descartes and Astell

Brown, Deborah J. and Broad, Jacqueline (2022). The social dimension of generosity in Descartes and Astell. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 60 (3), 409-427. doi: 10.1353/hph.2022.0037

The social dimension of generosity in Descartes and Astell

2022

Journal Article

Petticoat power? Mary Astell's appropriation of heroic virtue for women

Brown, Deborah J. and Broad, Jacqueline (2022). Petticoat power? Mary Astell's appropriation of heroic virtue for women. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 9 (2), 1-20. doi: 10.1017/apa.2022.6

Petticoat power? Mary Astell's appropriation of heroic virtue for women

2022

Journal Article

A first principles approach to subjective experience

Key, Brian, Zalucki, Oressia and Brown, Deborah J. (2022). A first principles approach to subjective experience. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16 756224, 756224. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2022.756224

A first principles approach to subjective experience

2021

Journal Article

Neural design principles for subjective experience: implications for insects

Key, Brian, Zalucki, Oressia and Brown, Deborah J. (2021). Neural design principles for subjective experience: implications for insects. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15 658037, 1-20. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.658037

Neural design principles for subjective experience: implications for insects

2021

Journal Article

Working from theory: developing the bases of teachers’ critical thinking pedagogies through action research

Hegazy, Hind, Ellerton, Peter, Campos-Remon, Hannah, Zaphir, Luke, Mazzola, Claudio and Brown, Deborah (2021). Working from theory: developing the bases of teachers’ critical thinking pedagogies through action research. Educational Action Research, 31 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/09650792.2021.1877757

Working from theory: developing the bases of teachers’ critical thinking pedagogies through action research

2021

Journal Article

Is absence of evidence of pain ever evidence of absence?

Brown, Deborah J. and Key, Brian (2021). Is absence of evidence of pain ever evidence of absence?. Synthese, 199 (1-2), 3881-3902. doi: 10.1007/s11229-020-02961-0

Is absence of evidence of pain ever evidence of absence?

2021

Book Chapter

Agency, force, and inertia in Descartes and Hobbes

Brown, Deborah (2021). Agency, force, and inertia in Descartes and Hobbes. Reconsidering causal powers: historical and conceptual perspectives. (pp. 94-120) edited by Benjamin Hill, Henrik Lagerlund and Stathis Psillos. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198869528.003.0005

Agency, force, and inertia in Descartes and Hobbes