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Work and social alienation
In this paper, I offer an account of social alienation, a genre of alienation engendered by contemporary work that has gone largely overlooked in the...
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Anxiety, Desire and Imagination
As the sovereign decides on the state of exception, so philosophy decides on the division between the ontic and the ontological domains, between a...
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Social Acceleration: A Challenge for Companies? Insights for Business Ethics from Resonance Theory
In modern capitalist societies, companies are exposed to enormous pressure to accelerate. However, it has increasingly become apparent that the...
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Establishing a Dignity Scale - Measuring Intrinsic Value within Social Contexts
In this paper we describe the basics of the measurement of human dignity at the individual level, as well as within social contexts such as teams and...
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Richard Lewontin and Theodosius Dobzhansky: Genetics, Race, and the Anxiety of Influence
I reconstruct the relationship between the evolutionary geneticists Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) and Richard Lewontin (1929–2021). Using...
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Anxiety, Guilt and Activism in Teaching about Climate Change
The extent and urgency of climate change raises several pressing questions about how we teach, and have been teaching, about the environment. In...
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The social contract for science and the value-free ideal
While the Value-Free Ideal (VFI) had many precursors, it became a solidified bulwark of normative claims about scientific reasoning and practice in...
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Alcohol and Loneliness: Their Entanglement and Social Constitution
I develop an externalist perspective and analysis of the relatedness of loneliness and (harmful) alcohol use and the concept of loneliness. I depart...
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Empty satisfaction—a social phenomenology of late modern enjoyment
Phenomenological analyses of enjoyment are relatively rare; also, the few known attempts (e.g. Levinas) are elaborated in a transcendental fashion,...
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Beyond social embeddedness: probing the power relations of alternative food networks in China
Food justice scholars have criticized alternative food networks (AFNs) for lacking concern about gender, class, race, and ethnicity, thus not...
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Tacit social experimentation with digital technologies during the Covid-19 crisis
In the management of the Covid 19 crisis, digital technologies were used in a major way. This article defends the hypothesis that these technologies...
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Two approaches to naturalistic social ontology
Social ontological inquiry has been pursued in analytic philosophy as well as in the social scientific tradition of critical realism. These...
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Social Media and its Negative Impacts on Autonomy
How social media impacts the autonomy of its users is a topic of increasing focus. However, much of the literature that explores these impacts fails...
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Bettina Bergo: Anxiety – a philosophical history. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 514 pp, ISBN: 978-0-19-753971-2
This review of Bettina Bergo’s book, Anxiety , draws attention both to the interweaving method of her account and to the substance of its...
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Unfulfilled habits: on the affective consequences of turning down affordances for social interaction
Many pragmatist and non-representational approaches to cognition, such as the enactivist, have focused on the relations between actions, affectivity,...
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The social dimension of pain
Contemporary pain literature increasingly acknowledges the need of a multidimensional approach to pain, which accounts for its complex biological,...
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Social Sha** of Emotions
As the result of social conventions through the medium of attitudes, emotions embody internalized social values and are involved in some given...
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An Alternative Understanding of Social Entrepreneurs in Terms of Resonance and Vulnerability: Based on Hartmut Rosa’s Philosophy and Sociology
In their pursuit of addressing social and environmental challenges, social entrepreneurs should be social transformers emancipating stakeholders....
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Climate Change Social Norms and Corporate Cash Holdings
We study the relationship between climate change social norms (CCSN) and corporate cash holdings for U.S. firms. We find that county-level CCSN is...
