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Challenges of African Communitarian Philosophy
The chapter critically examines the fundamental and all-embracing philosophy of sub-Saharan African peoples, Afro-communitarianism or African...
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Internal Violence: A Critique of Absolute Socialisations
The rise of violence across the world raises a number of questions pertaining to human relations in our societies. There seem to be concerns...
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The Challenges of Algorithm-Based HR Decision-Making for Personal Integrity
Organizations increasingly rely on algorithm-based HR decision-making to monitor their employees. This trend is reinforced by the technology industry...
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Transforming labour around food? the experience of community supported agriculture in Italy
This study examines the strategies developed by Italian Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) initiatives to de-commodify, de-instrumentalise and...
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Restoring sense out of disorder? Farmers’ changing social identities under big data and algorithms
Advances in precision agriculture (PA), driven by big data technologies and machine learning algorithms can transform agriculture by enhancing crop...
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Searching for the plot: narrative self-making and urban agriculture during the economic crisis in Slovenia
Analyses of household urban agriculture have demonstrated a wealth of personal, economic, social, moral or political uses for self-provisioned food,...
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How institutional solutions meant to increase diversity in science fail
Philosophers of science have in recent years presented arguments in favour of increasing cognitive diversity, diversity of social locations, and...
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Community Researchers and Ethical Considerations: Burdens in the Field
Community researchers, including community members without formal research training, are increasingly being hired as part of research teams,...
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Ethical Considerations with the Photovoice Research Method: A Narrative Reflection
This paper explores ethical considerations and challenges of using the community-based participatory research method of photovoice with marginalized...
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Embodied ethics: Levinas’ gift for enactivism
This paper suggests that the enactive approach to ethics could benefit from engaging a dialogue with the phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas, a...
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Crowdsourcing a Moral Machine in a Pluralistic World
This chapter explores the propriety of incorporating crowdsourced public input when programming morally contentious decisions to be made by automated...
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Motivations, changes and challenges of participating in food-related social innovations and their transformative potential: three cases from Berlin (Germany)
Dominant agri-food systems are increasingly seen as unsustainable in terms of environmental degradation, mass production or high food waste. In an...
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Empathy and the Importance of Affectivity
This chapter argues that empathy is the basic emotional mechanism we use to understand others and that is always in place. The idea that we are...
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Taking embodiment seriously in public policy and practice: adopting a procedural approach to health and welfare
It is a common refrain amongst phenomenologists, disability theorists, and feminist legal theorists that medical practice pays insufficient attention...
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Operationalising a real-time research ethics approach: supporting ethical mindfulness in agriculture-nutrition-health research in Malawi
BackgroundThere have been notable investments in large multi-partner research programmes across the agriculture-nutrition-health (ANH) nexus. These...
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Practical Reasoning and Cooperation
Many ethical theorists believe that reasons play a fundamental role for analyzing various normative concepts. Inspired by the team-reasoning account...
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The Causality of Freedom: Max Weber and the Practical Activation of Schutz’s Postulate of Adequacy
This essay argues that Johannes von Kries analysis of the status in the criminal law of the rationally intending subject and the doctrine of mens rea ...
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New perspectives on person-centered care: an affordance-based account
Despite the growing interest and supporting evidence for person-centered care (PCC), there is still a fundamental disagreement about what makes...
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How to deal with moral challenges around the decision-making competence in transgender adolescent care? Development of an ethics support tool
BackgroundDecision-making competence is a complex concept in the care for transgender and gender diverse adolescents, since this type of care...
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The Promise of Representative Democracy: Deliberative Responsiveness
In the eyes of its citizens, liberal democracy is connected to at least three promises—the promises of autonomy, equality and rationality. To what...
