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I’m slow with new posts as I have been finishing a book based on the material from this blog. This book can now be ordered at Edward Elgar.
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- Social change and moral values: A modest research program to change the world 12/01/2021
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- Responsibility in a complex world 17/12/2020
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- The stories we tell ourselves 30/09/2020
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- 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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Making things and discourses. An answer to the question: What is philosophy?
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] For a long time I had to think about what philosophy actually is as a field of study. I know the familiar definitions, but those are just salespitches. They do not … Continue reading
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Tagged Discourse, Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant, Philosophy, Reification, Social-constructivism, Structuralism
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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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Free will exists because we want it to
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] It is not always clear that free will is not a mere physical phenomenon that obeys natural laws, which leads to confusion about the status of free will. But free will … Continue reading
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Tagged Consciousness, Determinism, Enlightenment, Ethics, Free will, Intentionality, Language, Self
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Optimization machines: The peculiar reversal of rationality
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] The rational individual is an ‘optimization machine’ who chooses the right means to achieve a given goal. A problem is that people turn out to be not rational at all, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Autonomy, Biases, Bounded rationality, Choice architectures, Computers, Dialogue, Enlightenment, Heuristics, Machines, Neo-liberalism, Nudges, Nudging, Optimization, Rationalisation, Rationality, Responsibility, Smart, Utilitarianism, Wisdom of the crowds
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