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Enacted institutions, participatory sense-making and social norms
This paper argues that institutions are higher-level autonomous systems enacted by patterns of participatory sense-making. Therefore, unlike in the...
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Sense-Making as Place-Norms: Inhabiting the World with Others
This chapter argues that sense-making as a norm development process emerges from the agents’ concrete situatedness. This situatedness involves...
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Qualities of consent: an enactive approach to making better sense
Philosophical work on the concept of consent in the past few decades have got to grips with it as a rich notion. We are increasingly sensitive to...
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How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research
Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability science and public health research contribute to co-producing evidence that can support...
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Making sense of farmland biodiversity management: an evaluation of a farmland biodiversity management communication strategy with farmers
Biodiversity is a valuable resource that supports sustainability within agricultural systems, yet in contradiction to this agriculture is recognised...
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Making Sense of Ambiguities
In the theory chapter I showed how different ideals and their inherent ambiguities characterise charitable giving. My interlocutors express their...
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Making Sense of Social Sustainability
This chapter takes a hybrid interpretation of social sustainability from the domains of policy, economics and sociology. We argue that the concept...
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The Ecological Dimension of Sense-Making: The Environment as an Active Ecological Field
This chapter argues that in sense-making as norm development, an agent interacts with the environment as an active ecological field of action and not...
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Revisiting the Social Origins of Human Morality: A Constructivist Perspective on the Nature of Moral Sense-Making
A recent turn in the cognitive sciences has deepened the attention on embodied and situated dynamics for explaining different cognitive processes...
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Eros In-between and All-around
In this paper, I focus on the concept of embeddedness as the background against which eros is a force and a power in and through interactions. To go...
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Philosopher, Religious Thinker or Contemplative Practitioner? Making Sense of Dōgen Beyond Zen Modernism
Van der Braak reflects on the different approaches to understanding Dōgen’s work. For his own, he uses the philosophical hermeneutics of the German...
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Participatory development of CURA, a clinical ethics support instrument for palliative care
BackgroundExisting clinical ethics support (CES) instruments are considered useful. However, users report obstacles in using them in daily practice....
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Public Engagement in the Tradition of Participatory Approaches – An Approximation
Public engagement is viewed as a prominent aspect of responsible research and innovation (RRI) both in academia and policy circles. In our paper, we...
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The Old Kid in Town: Excursus on Participatory Democracy and a “Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy”
Part I ends with an excursus on democratic participation and the participatory conception of democracy. The chapter shortly addresses the thought of...
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Habitually breaking habits: Agency, awareness, and decision-making in musical improvisation
In this paper, I explore the question of agency in spontaneous action via a phenomenology of musical improvisation, drawing on fieldwork conducted...
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Joint Action, Participatory Intentions, and Team Reasoning
Agents are often held responsible for harms that they intentionally brought about. It is commonplace that such intentional wrongdoings and omissions...
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Gandhi, Oceanic Circle, and Participatory Democracy
Gandhi’s thoughts on democracy are not merely relevant in a postcolonial nation. His criticism of Western civilisation for reproducing alienating...
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Enactive Ethics and Hermeneutics—From Bodily Normativity to Critical Ethics
Recent enactive accounts of cognition have begun to disentangle social and normative aspects of the human mind. In this paper, we will contribute to...
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Evald Ilyenkov and the enactive approach
There is a growing interest in Evald Ilyenkov’s work and its significance for contemporary debates. This interest spans several disciplines. One key...
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Conducting Participatory Research on Children’s Subjective Well-Being: At the Interface of Ethics and Methods
Child participation provides a critical framework for the inclusion of children in the research process, challenging previous adult-centric...