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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
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- 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 language of the voiceless: Some questions about ecological ethics
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] We humans are not who we thought we were, not nearly as rational, unique and intentional as we imagined ourselves to be. Instead, we are intrinsically connected with all the life … Continue reading
Social change and moral values: A modest research program to change the world
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] In order to bring about desirable social change, it is necessary to know what is morally desirable and what is social change. Unfortunately, ethics and social sciences fall short here: ethics … Continue reading
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Tagged Backflow, Durkheim, Ethics, Framing, Hegel, Institutions, Intersubjective reality, Moral uncertainties, Moral values, Overflowing, Pluralism, Social change, Sociology, Value change, Values
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The idealistic fallacy of the autonomous self
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] As a counterpart to the ‘naturalistic fallacy’ you could speak of the ‘idealistic fallacy’, which − strangely enough – seems not have been introduced yet in ethics. This fallacy boils down … 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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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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Is moral change possible?
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] Whether we can change morally is a question that is not asked often, but it is a relevant one. After all, if this was not the case, ethics would become a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dialogue, Ethics, Moral change, Moral emotions, Moral intuitions, Social norms
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