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- Everything under control 20/12/2021
- The Fable of the Fable of the Bees: Private Hubris, Public Scarcity 13/12/2021
- What kind of science is afforded by technology? 13/04/2021
- The language of the voiceless: Some questions about ecological ethics 17/01/2021
- Social change and moral values: A modest research program to change the world 12/01/2021
- The Myths of the Nation-State 08/01/2021
- Responsibility in a complex world 17/12/2020
- Green shame 06/10/2020
- The stories we tell ourselves 30/09/2020
- The problem of polarization: the sense and nonsense of debates about new technology 31/05/2020
- Climate Change, Covid-19, and the Apocalypse 05/05/2020
- The idealistic fallacy of the autonomous self 22/04/2020
- The corona crisis as the big degrowth experiment 13/04/2020
- The moral charge of made institutions 07/04/2020
- The value of values: What ethics can learn from the corona crisis 05/04/2020
- Some chattering about the public debate on social media 11/03/2020
- Issues in the relationship between science and politics 23/02/2020
- Making things and discourses. An answer to the question: What is philosophy? 16/02/2020
- The eternal Golden Age: The discursive corruption of the Dutch self-image 07/02/2020
- A new way for the political left: Towards a wiser and richer society? 27/01/2020
- The amorality of organizations 05/01/2020
- Causes versus understandings: Why self-driving cars may not be a good idea 11/12/2019
- The Forgotten Virtue of Forgiveness in the Public Domain 25/11/2019
- Thinking with words and thinking with things 06/11/2019
- The romantic ideal of our illusory evolution 25/10/2019
- Free will exists because we want it to 11/09/2019
- The state of technology and society in a world without borders 20/08/2019
- About Privacy, Poo and Cyberspace 09/07/2019
- Optimization machines: The peculiar reversal of rationality 20/04/2019
- A hero like Hirschman and the turns in transition thinking 08/04/2019
- Can you call a politician fascist? Narratives, accountabilities and the ‘benefit of the doubt’ 28/03/2019
- Is moral change possible? 21/03/2019
- How do we settle the climate problem? 14/03/2019
- Moral senses of the individual and the social self 24/02/2019
- Misunderstandings about the freedom of speech: About the rules for the public debate 16/02/2019
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The problem of polarization: the sense and nonsense of debates about new technology
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] In debates about new technologies, one camp usually entertains unrealistic expectations of the benefits, while an opposed camp comes emphasizes the dangers that are just as unrealistic. This gives rise to … Continue reading
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Tagged 5G, Claims, Debate, Deliberative democracy, Democracy, Expectation, Expectations, Gossip, Innovation, New technology, Pluralism, Polarization, Promises, Realism, Techno-optimism, Technology, Technophobia
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The moral charge of made institutions
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] The free market, representative democracy and modern science can be seen as institutions that were once designed to guard important moral conditions. The individuals who function within those institutions are forced … Continue reading
The value of values: What ethics can learn from the corona crisis
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] The corona crisis has led to a recalibration of the major social values in most countries. These values were traded off and subsequently action has been taken. In principle, ethics would … Continue reading
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Tagged Analytic philosophy, Collective choice, Continental philosophy, Contingency, Corona, Covid-19, Crisis, Deconstructivism, Deliberative democracy, Democracy, Dignity, Ethics, Habermas, Moral truths, Moral values, Nietzsche, Nihilism, Objectifation, Rawls, Relativism, Rorty, science, Social change, Values
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Issues in the relationship between science and politics
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] Issues in the relationship between science and politics Political controversies such as climate change, vaccination or nitrogen deposition show that knowledge issues within a political context are not about valid knowledge … Continue reading
The amorality of organizations
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] Organizations are an inseparable part of our social life. Yet they are strange, as they do not fit into the moral system that has been developed since the Enlightenment. In that … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability structures, Actors, Adam Smith, bureaucracy, companies, Democracy, division of labor, Enlightenment, firms, individuals, institutional domains, ministries, Montesquieu, Neo-liberalism, organizations, parliamentary democracy, Responsibility
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Can you call a politician fascist? Narratives, accountabilities and the ‘benefit of the doubt’
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] Right-wing populist politicians have had electoral success in quite some countries. This has led to much debate about how far you can go in criticizing these politicians. Can you call them … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-semitism, Conspiracy theory, Democracy, Fascism, Hannah Arendt, Narrative, Pluralism, Popular sovereignty, Populism, Totalitarianism
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Democracy versus innovation: the need to look critically at technological promises
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] While all kinds of new technologies will affect our future world to a great extent, there is no proper democratic discussion about the desirability of these new technologies. This is mainly … Continue reading
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Tagged Democracy, Elon Musk, Innovation, Promises, Resources, Responsibility, Societal responsiveness, Technology
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