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The Concept of Agent in Biology: Motivations and Meanings
Biological agency has received much attention in recent philosophy of biology. But what is the motivation for introducing talk of agency into biology...
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Monogamy Unredeemed
Monogamy, I’ve argued, faces a pressing problem: the difficulty of finding a morally relevant difference between its restriction on having additional...
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Ethics, Tradition and Temporality in Craft Work: The Case of Japanese Mingei
Based on an empirical illustration of Onta pottery and more broadly a discussion of the Japanese Mingei movement, we study the intimacy between craft...
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Post-Bonnetian Naturalism
The argument of this paper is threefold: (a) Charles Bonnet’s naturalization of the principle of perfectibility (in the wake of Rousseau) is one...
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Domination and Freedom: Quality, not Quantity
Does domination make us unfree? Republicans argue that it does. Thus, they contend that the liberal conception of freedom is inadequate as it is not...
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The role of social reinforcement in norm transmission and cultural evolution
Work on cultural evolution, especially that of Boyd, Richerson, and Henrich, has said little about the role of reinforcement in cultural learning....
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Smith’s Laissez Faire Capitalism
Although the phenomenon of capitalism predates Adam Smith he is often characterised as its architect. His main influence in the history of capitalism...
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The Artificial Intelligence Challenge and the End of Humanity
The title of this essay has a twofold meaning, as does the word “end.” The word “end” means the last part of an extended thing or a period of time. A...
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Saving, sharing and sha** landrace seeds in commons: unravelling seed commoning norms for furthering agrobiodiversity
One of the major challenges facing agricultural and food systems today is the loss of agrobiodiversity. Considering the current impasse of preventing...
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Jewish Pluralism and John Hick
Within Jewish circles little attention has been paid to the issue of religious pluralism. On the whole Jewish theologians have not explored the...
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Does Organicism Really Need Organization?
The main purpose of the present chapter is to argue in favor of the claim that, contrary to what is usually and tacitly assumed, organization is not...
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Money and Presocratic Philosophy
This chapter develops my previous work on the influence of monetization on the genesis and early form of the first “philosophical” (presocratic)...
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Computer Simulations as Scientific Instruments
Computer simulations have conventionally been understood to be either extensions of formal methods such as mathematical models or as special cases of...
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Theoretical Perspectives on Charitable Giving, Diaspora and Belonging
My study of the Jewish charitable community of Cape Town touches on three main dimensions, each with their own theoretical considerations, which are...
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Conclusion: Phenomenological Intentionality and Looking-Glass Sociality
This conclusion explains the connectedness of various provinces of meaning with each other and the way in which the non-social features of various...
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A Better Argument for Tawḥīd?: Philosophical Discussions of Divine Attributes in the Sharḥ Al-ʿaqāid Tradition
This study focuses on al-Taftāzānī’s discussion of the ontological status of divine attributes in his Sharḥ al-ʿAqāid and aims to demonstrate that...
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Leader-Expressed Humility: Development and Validation of Scales Based on a Comprehensive Conceptualization
We introduce new leader humility scales capturing a theoretically rich conceptualization of leader-expressed humility aligned with traditional and...
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