FIMS Profile

Alex Mayhew is currently developing a new information paradigm is called Phylomemetics. This paradigm draws inspiration from biological phylogenetics, the literature concept of tropes, and the cultural concept of memes. A Phylomemetics-enhanced Library Catalogue would allow users to create links between the catalogue records, adding meaningful connections, integrating user participation into library catalogues.

His other notable project is Aging Justice, an extension of the Social Justice concept of Health Justice into the area of aging. Under this framework the natural reduction in capacities caused by biological aging is is recognized as increasingly subject to human influence, and thus is just as much a Social Justice issue as other health concerns.

Alex also serves as a host and co-founder of the So What? podcast. 

CV: Google Scholar, Orcid

Mayhew, A. (2021). Aging Justice: Health Justice Extended. Canadian Journal of Practical Philosophy Volume 7, 2021. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/csspe/vol7/1/4/  

Mayhew, A. (2020). Memetic Relationships as Tillet’s Shared Characteristics. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes Du congrès Annuel De l’ACSI. https://doi.org/10.29173/cais1157 

VanderSchans, A., Mayhew, A., & Cornwell, S. E. (2020).  Alternative Scholarship through Table-top Games: A Practical Demonstration. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes Du congrès Annuel De l’ACSI. https://doi.org/10.29173/cais1140 

Mayhew, A. (2020). "The Dragonslayer: Folktale Classification, Memetics, and Cataloguing," Proceedings from the Document Academy: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 , Article 3. https://doi.org/10.35492/docam/7/1/3 

Mayhew, A. (2020). Phylomemetic Cataloguing: Expanding Bibliographic Relationships Beyond FRBR. In International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), M. Lykke, T. Svarre, M. Skov, & D. Martínez-Ávila (Eds.), Knowledge Organization at the Interface: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International ISKO Conference, 2020 Aalborg, Denmark (1st ed., pp. 559–561). Ergon-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956507762-559

Campbell, D. G., & Mayhew, A. (2020). Inheritance and Lamination in the Representation of Bibliographic Relationships. In International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), M. Lykke, T. Svarre, M. Skov, & D. Martínez-Ávila (Eds.), Knowledge Organization at the Interface: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International ISKO Conference, 2020 Aalborg, Denmark (1st ed., pp. 69–77). Ergon-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956507762-69

Campbell, D. G., & Mayhew, A. (2017). A Phylogenetic Approach to Bibliographic Families and Relationships. Proceedings from North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, 6(1), 12-20. https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/nasko/article/view/15227

Mayhew, A. (2017). Extending the FRBR model: A proposal for a Group 4. FIMS Working Papers. Scholarship@Western Repository, University of Western Ontario. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fimswp/6/