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Anti-modern Techno-Science: Cybernetics, Ontology, Practice in the European Hacker Tradition
Hacker artefacts, knowledges, practices and scenes constitute an alternative engineering culture that can be characterised as anti-modern...
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Moral Thoughts and Chinese Traditional Culture
Chinese culture is vast and deep, integrating the thoughts of hundreds of schools. Confucianism, selected by the history, has long been in a dominant...
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Liberation and Monetary Policy in Cabral and Pan-African Materialism
In general, the construction of global trade networks linked previously isolated systems of trade, movement, and even ecology. But the flows of...
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On Seeing Long Shadows: Is Academic Medicine at its Core a Practice of Racial Oppression?
Suggestions that academic medicine is systemically racist are increasingly common in the medical literature. Such suggestions often rely upon...
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Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy of Nationalism and It’s Contemporary Relevance
There has been in recent decades very substantial work done on the concept of a nation, nationality and nationalism. In spite of the world coming...
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Death-Consciousness and Absurdity
Within Iranian culture awareness of death is encouraged and woven into everyday understanding of life and lived experiences. This death-conscious...
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Rethinking success, integrity, and culture in research (part 1) — a multi-actor qualitative study on success in science
BackgroundSuccess shapes the lives and careers of scientists. But success in science is difficult to define, let alone to translate in indicators...
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Rethinking Incest Avoidance: Beyond the Disciplinary Groove of Culture-First Views
The Westermarck Effect posits that intimate association during childhood promotes human incest avoidance. In previous work, I articulated and...
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Possibility of Creating a Process-Based Organizational Structure in the Public Sector
The public sectorPublic sector plays a very important role in the economic structures of countries in transition. Acknowledging this fact, it is...
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Universities in the Renaissance
The earliest universities appeared in the twelfth century in Bologna and Paris. These institutions grew out of preexisting schools already...
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The impact of culture on mindreading
The role of culture in sha** folk psychology and mindreading has been neglected in the philosophical literature. This paper shows that there are...
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Clinical Ethics Consultation in the Transition Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
Since 1989, clinical ethics consultation in form of hospital ethics committees (HECs) was established in most of the transition countries of Central...
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Insufficient Recognition: Comparing Julian Hirsch’s and Edgar Zilsel’s Analyses of the Glorification of Personalities
This article focuses on two important theorists of critical genius research in the early twentieth century, Julian Hirsch and Edgar Zilsel. With Die...
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Do biomedical researchers differ in their perceptions of plagiarism across Europe? Findings from an online survey among leading universities
BackgroundExisting research on perceptions of plagiarism and cultural influences mainly focuses on comparisons between the Western World and the...
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Two Dogmas of Enlightenment Scholarship
A central theme in the scholarly literature on Enlightenment Europe concerns the increased focus on the role of reason in the development of European...
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Building Inclusive Ethical Cultures in STEM
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are central to any educational system. The term started with the National Science...
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Mill’s Colonial-Racist Discourse in School Textbooks
James Mill was the first colonial to write a comprehensive history of India. Soon after its publication, he became a high-ranking employee of the...
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Ethics and Aesthetics Are One: Wittgenstein and the Avant-Garde
The title alludes to a juxtaposition which may at first sight seem unorthodox. Certainly, from the point of view of Wittgenstein’s otherwise quite...
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Czechoslovak intellectual debate on the crisis of democracy in the 1930s
The issue of the crisis of democracy has been debated abundantly and intensively in recent years. The body of academic literature on the topic has...
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Autonomy
Autonomy is a central theoretical and political concept in Gustavo Esteva’s thought and life. His presence in the dialogue between the Mexican...