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The power of connected clinical teams: from loneliness to belonging
BackgroundWe need to preserve the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic in caring for the mental health of clinicians, of shared experiences,...
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Expert Uncertainty: Arguments Bolstering the Ethos of Expertise in Situations of Uncertainty
Arguably, one of the defining traits of an expert is certainty of knowledge. So, what happens when experts in a critical situation in public...
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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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The Ripple Effect: When Leader Self-Group Distancing Responses Affect Subordinate Career Trajectories
As women advance into leadership roles, the gender discrimination they face is a pressing issue that demands attention from a business ethics...
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Palliative Care Between Certainty and Uncertainty. Which Philosophy of Death at the End of Life?
This article aims to provide a philosophical reading of palliative care between certainty and uncertainty. Indeed, palliative care is a medical...
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Subjectness of Intelligence: Quantum-Theoretic Analysis and Ethical Perspective
Recent developments in artificial intelligence urge clarification of its ethical and legal status. The issue revolves around the concept of...
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Simulation and self-location
It is possible that you are living in a simulation—that your world is computer-generated rather than physical. But how likely is this scenario?...
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Fast Track Treatment of Hypothyroidism with Levothyroxine: Reaching Homeostasis within Four Weeks
With the current clinical method for the treatment of hypothyroidism the target for the optimum individual values for free thyroxine concentrations...
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Epistemic and Non-epistemic Values in Earthquake Engineering
The importance of epistemic values in science is universally recognized, whereas the role of non-epistemic values is sometimes considered disputable....
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On losing certainty
This paper develops a phenomenological account of what it is to lose a primitive and pervasive sense of certainty . I begin by considering Wolfgang...
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Epistemic risk in methodological triangulation: the case of implicit attitudes
One important strategy for dealing with error in our methods is triangulation, or the use multiple methods to investigate the same object. Current...
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The information inelasticity of habits: Kahneman’s bounded rationality or Simon’s procedural rationality?
Why would decision makers (DMs) adopt heuristics, priors, or in short “habits” that prevent them from optimally using pertinent information—even when...
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The interpretation of uncertainty in ecological rationality
Despite the ubiquity of uncertainty, scientific attention has focused primarily on probabilistic approaches, which predominantly rely on the...
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Pascal’s Wager and Decision-making with Imprecise Probabilities
Unlike other classical arguments for the existence of God, Pascal’s Wager provides a pragmatic rationale for theistic belief. Its most popular...
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Fear, Fanaticism, and Fragile Identities
In this article, I provide a philosophical analysis of the nature and role of perceived identity threats in the genesis and maintenance of...
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The Impermissibility of Execution
This chapter offers a proceduralist argument against capital punishment. More specifically, it contends that the possibility of irrevocable mistakes...
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The Role of Relevance in Stereoty**: a Schutzian Approach to Social Categorisation
This article demonstrates that Alfred Schutz’s theory of typification and relevance together have a great potential to conceptually clarify certain...
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Why the Epistemic Objection Against Using Sentience as Criterion of Moral Status is Flawed
According to a common view, sentience is necessary and sufficient for moral status. In other words, whether a being has intrinsic moral relevance is...
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When philosophy (of science) meets formal methods: a citation analysis of early approaches between research fields
The article investigates what happens when philosophy (of science) meets and begins to establish connections with two formal research methods such as...
