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Recovering Aristotle’s Practice-Based Ontology: Practical Wisdom as Embodied Ethical Intuition
The renewed engagement with Aristotle’s concept of practical wisdom in management and organization studies is reflective of the wider turn towards...
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Attention as Practice
The “attention economy” refers to the tech industry’s business model that treats human attention as a commodifiable resource. The libertarian...
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The Medical Clinic as an Experimental Practice
The author argues the following hypothesis: the medical clinic is an experimental practice, in the sense given to this term by Claude Bernard, and...
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Shared Attention as a Revelatory Practice
In order to understand what we are talking about when we talk about joint attention, I will scrutinize how the mainstream view that builds on...
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Various Forms of Irresponsible Research Practice
The research organizations are responsible for reacting to and investigating irresponsible research practices committed by their own employees. In...
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Medical Practice in Presence of MAID
In an interview with Dr. Amy Hendricks of Antigonish, Nova Scotia she discusses the challenges of providing end-of-life care in a rural, remote...
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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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Lost in Translation? Ethics and Engineering Practice
The aim of this chapter is to clarify the scope of engineering ethics. We suggest a definition of engineering as practice, with its own virtues and...
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Corporate Responses to Community Grievance: Voluntarism and Pathologies of Practice
Grievance landscapes form in rapidly industrialising contexts where social and environmental impacts are inevitable. This paper focuses on the...
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A Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice
This chapter illustrates the contribution of practice epistemology to the study of management and organization. It argues that practice theories are...
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Civic Action Against Son Preference in Tirupati, India: Critical International Law Put into Practice?
In this paper based on original fieldwork, I seek to contribute to critical scholarship in international law by providing an investigation into the...
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The Management Practice of Servant Leadership: A Levinasian Enrichment
This paper applies Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy to the management practice of leadership. Specifically, it focuses on servant leadership, which is...
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Introducing Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Lessons on Pragmatic Ethics and the Implementation of a Morally Contested Practice
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada has had a tumultuous social and legal history. In the 6 years since assisted dying was decriminalized by...
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Practice for Wisdom: On the Neglected Role of Case-Based Critical Reflection
Despite increased philosophical and psychological work on practical wisdom, contemporary interdisciplinary wisdom research provides few specifics...
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No Place for Private Practice
Wittgenstein harshly criticized what he considered “mythologies” infecting our understanding of how mathematics work. He was especially reluctant to...
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The Social Practice of Ho**
Using a number of examples, this chapter examines hope as a social practice. It begins by observing that hope is characteristically expressed by...
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The Farm-Village Practice of Yorùbá in West Africa
The Yorùbá ethnic group of West Africa, an urban people, resided in walled towns in pre-colonial times but farmed the surrounding areas in villages...
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Scientific Realism and Scientific Practice
Does the realism debate matter for scientific practice? Shaw attempts to justify a positive answer to this question by providing a scientific episode...
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Structural Problems in the Practice of Psychiatric Research
This chapter examines various structural and institutional loop-holes and market incentives that allow pharmaceutical companies to maximize profits...
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Scientists’ Views on the Ethics, Promises and Practices of Synthetic Biology: A Qualitative Study of Australian Scientific Practice
Synthetic biology is a broad term covering multiple scientific methodologies, technologies, and practices. Pairing biology with engineering, synbio...