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Alzheimer’s disease: history, ethics and medical humanities in the context of assisted suicide
IntroductionDementia diseases, especially Alzheimer’s disease (AD), are of considerable importance in terms of social policy and health economics....
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Constructing a ‘Different’ Strength: A Feminist Exploration of Vulnerability, Ethical Agency and Care
This article explores how ethical agency, as ‘other-oriented’ caring, emerged from feelings of being ‘different’ in a cultural organization by...
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Digital Phenoty**: an Epistemic and Methodological Analysis
Some claim that digital phenoty** will revolutionize understanding of human psychology and experience and significantly promote human wellbeing....
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Epidemics, Rebellion, and Faith
This chapter addresses various forms of contending with an existential crisis such as the epidemic along a spectrum stretching between faith and its...
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Solastalgia
We do not simply know the natural world in which we live. We also feel it and engage with it intimately through sight, touch, sound and smell. We may...
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Suffering as a Criterion for Medical Assistance in Dying
Canada has followed the pattern of Benelux nations by legislating sufferingSuffering as the pivotal eligibilityEligibility criterionCriterion for...
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Is the History of Our Universe and Mankind Cyclical or Linear?
The ancient Greek philosophers believed that the entire cosmos, as well as each of our individual lives, will be uniquely repeated, that throughout...
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Consciousness Versus Language: Wittgenstein and Russell
This chapter criticizes the empirical and “scientific” approach to consciousness as presented in analytic and linguistic philosophers. The chapter...
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Sensemaking of COVIDian Crisis for Work and Organization
COVID19 pandemic is pushing business organizations to cope in newer, more resilient ways. In this study, in-depth qualitative research was conducted...
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The concept of vulnerability in aged care: a systematic review of argument-based ethics literature
BackgroundVulnerability is a key concept in traditional and contemporary bioethics. In the philosophical literature, vulnerability is understood not...
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Increasing efficiency and well-being? a systematic review of the empirical claims of the double-benefit argument in socially assistive devices
BackgroundSocially assistive devices (care robots, companions, smart screen assistants) have been advocated as a promising tool in elderly care in...
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Retheorizing Aristotle’s Catharsis: The Role of Memories in Narrating and Purging Emotions
‘Do memories provide cathartic release for the conscious/unconscious conflict operating in the psyche of the migratory/diasporic subjects?’ This...
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What Does the Meaning of Life Mean for Your Business?
This chapter outlines how various worldviews and their related values, religious and non-religious, colonise cognitive states within the mind. They...
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Being one of us: we-identities and self-categorization theory
One way to theorize about we-identities—the identities that individual subjects have as ‘one of us’—is in terms of the uniformity,...
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Existentialism and the Birth of the Modern Era
The chapter aims to provide a brief overview of existentialism as well as its contribution to modern philosophy. The rise of modern science, the...
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Sexual Ableism: Is Sex Work the Best Solution?
Scholarship in sexual ethics understands sex work as a primary means of combatting sexual ableism. Sexual ableism is the discriminatory manifestation...
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Rethinking Health Recommender Systems for Active Aging: An Autonomy-Based Ethical Analysis
Health Recommender Systems are promising Articial-Intelligence-based tools endowing healthy lifestyles and therapy adherence in healthcare and...
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Making things specific: towards an anthropology of everyday ethics in healthcare
This paper is the English translation and adaptation of my inaugural lecture in Amsterdam for the Chair Anthropology of Everyday Ethics in Health...
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Sex Robots and Moral Problems: A Conditional Approach
Robots designed to mimic human sexual behaviour and interaction are known as “sex robots.” In the contemporary world, they have become more...