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Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine
One Health medicine aims to improve health by focusing on the relations between the health of humans, animals, and the environment. However, One...
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Model transfer and conceptual progress: tales from chemistry and biology
The dissemination of models across disciplinary lines has become a phenomenon of interest to philosophers of science. To account for this phenomenon,...
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An interactive approach to the notion of chemical substance and the case of water
From organic synthesis to quantum chemical calculation, chemists interact with chemical substances in a wide variety of ways. But what even is a...
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Language as a Source of Epistemic Injustice in Organisations
Although there is now a substantial body of literature exploring the effects of language diversity in international management contexts, little...
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Empirical Concepts: Their Meaning and its Emergence
This article presents a detailed, novel account of the emergence of (the meaning of) empirical concepts. Acquiring experience and empirical concepts...
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On the Contribution of Neuroethics to the Ethics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Contemporary ethical analysis of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing rapidly. One of its most recognizable outcomes is the publication of a...
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Model templates: transdisciplinary application and entanglement
The omnipresence of the same basic equations, function forms, algorithms, and quantitative methods is one of the most spectacular characteristics of...
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Conceptual engineering, truth, and efficacy
Traditional views on philosophical methodology characterize our primary philosophical goal as production of a successful conceptual analysis. The...
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From Greenwashing to Machinewashing: A Model and Future Directions Derived from Reasoning by Analogy
This article proposes a conceptual map** to outline salient properties and relations that allow for a knowledge transfer from the well-established...
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A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Social Distance
From its very beginning, sociological thought has been concerned with a topic central to our daily lives: social distance. Since inception, the...
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Prolegomena to a Buddhist philosophy of religion
This article investigates the structures of an identifiably Buddhist philosophy of religion, understood as the philosophical exposition and...
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Hippocratic Oaths for Mathematicians?
In this paper I ask whether mathematicians should swear an oath similar to the Hippocratic oath sworn by some medical professionals as a means to...
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Negotiating “women”: metalinguistic negotiations across languages
The metalinguistic approach to conceptual engineering construes disputes between (what I shall call) linguistic reformers and linguistic...
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Reductionist methodology and the ambiguity of the categories of race and ethnicity in biomedical research: an exploratory study of recent evidence
In this article, we analyse how researchers use the categories of race and ethnicity with reference to genetics and genomics. We show that there is...
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Entangled Assemblages
Food and life are intimately entangled. To grasp the underlying complexity of this seemingly simple statement, this article first introduces the...
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Explaining the Cultural Evolution of large-scale Collaboration: Conventionality as an Alternative for Collective Intentionality
The scalar notion of collective intentionality has been used to characterize the evolution of largely uncollaborative apes to highly collaborative...
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To Each Technology Its Own Ethics: The Problem of Ethical Proliferation
Ethics plays a key role in the normative analysis of the impacts of technology. We know that computers in general and the processing of data, the use...
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Business Ethics in the Intercultural and Global Context: A Conceptual Framework
The article aims at definitely placing the approach to business and economic ethics into the global context. By learning from different approaches in...
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Transforming the food system in ‘unprotected space’: the case of diverse grain networks in England
Transitioning to food systems that are equitable, resilient, healthy and environmentally sustainable will require the cultivation and diffusion of...
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Consent as a compositional act – a framework that provides clarity for the retention and use of data
BackgroundInformed consent is one of the key principles of conducting research involving humans. When research participants give consent, they...