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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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What kind of science is afforded by technology?
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze tekst] To a certain extent, science is the application of technology that helps to arrive at new knowledge. First of all, scientists use instruments to experiment with and to measure. But also, … Continue reading
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Tagged Actor network theory, Affordance, ANT, big data, H index, science, Technology
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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
Thinking with words and thinking with things
[Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van deze post] Thinking is usually assumed to occur exclusively within the brain. But there is much to be said for also looking at the thought processes that take place outside of the brain. … Continue reading
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Tagged BCI, Brain, Cognition, craftsmanship, craftsmen, education, flynn effect, imposter syndrome, Intersubjective reality, Language, science, sketching, smart drugs, Technology, things, thinking
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