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Using symbiotic empirical ethics to explore the significance of relationships to clinical ethics: findings from the Reset Ethics research project
BackgroundAt the beginning of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, many non-Covid healthcare services were suspended. In April 2020, the Department...
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Yaoshi Tongyuan: The Symbiotic Practice in Traditional Medicines
We discuss the boundaries of symbiosis or gongsheng and coexistence under the theme of yaoshi tongyuan (food and medicine have the same source) in...
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Plantationocene: A Framework For Understanding the Links Between Ecological Destruction and Social Inequalities
The Anthropocene, as one of the core concepts currently used to understand and reflect on the relationships among humans, species, and planet, has...
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The Emergence of Social Life and the Ontology of Consociatio in the Political Theory of Johannes Althusius
Political and social theories, contemporary as well as historical, rest on explicit and implicit notions of social life. Even if the subject matter...
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Microbes
Microbes lead to a rethinking of living entanglements from an ecological, anthropological and epistemological perspective. Microcosm ecology...
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Between the genotype and the phenotype lies the microbiome: symbiosis and the making of ‘postgenomic’ knowledge
Emphatic claims of a “microbiome revolution” aside, the study of the gut microbiota and its role in organismal development and evolution is a central...
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Organising Food Systems Through Ecologies of Care: A Relational Approach
Concerns over the organising of food are widespread, stemming from unsustainable production practices that focus on extractive ‘use’ of resources...
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The Becoming of Identity: A Process-Ontological View on the Relational Co-existence of Biological Beings
A fundamental issue when thinking about the agency of organisms is the question of their identity. How could we talk of a biological being’s ongoing...
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Transformation
We highlight three complementary levels of transformation, corresponding to three complementary ways of considering intellectual, practical, moral...
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Ontology, Conviviality and Symbiosis Or: Are There Gifts of Nature?
The starting point of this chapter’s contribution is the thesis that in the Anthropocene, it has become problematic for sociology to concentrate...
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How to Understand Symbiosis?: The Conflict and Integration of Two Pictures of Life
For a long time, the competitive picture behind the classical natural selection paradigm and the cooperative picture behind biological symbiosis have...
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The Interpreting Organism
Literary formalism attributed meaning to the interactions of devices in the text itself, rejecting extra-textual influences, such as author...
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The Botho Perspective on Human and Animal Welfare
This paper is an exploration of the intersection between animals, tourists, and host communities. While the conservation of animals serves the dual...
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What Intellectual Shift Do We Need in a Time of Planetary Risks? Inspirations from Symbiosis in Life Sciences and the Notion of Gongsheng/Kyōsei
The notion of gongsheng or kyōsei (共生), roughly translated as “co-becoming,” refers to the fact and conception of the world as consisting of mutually...
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All Things Considered, Should Egalitarian Movements Accept Philanthropic Funding?
Philanthropy is a contentious and often polarising topic within egalitarian social movements. There are good reasons for this. Philanthropy is...
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Tarrying with John Cage’s Plant Pieces
This essay suggests that Hans-Georg Gadamer’s descriptive phenomenology of ‘tarrying’ [Verweilen] can be configured as an essential component of...
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The Gongsheng School of International Relations: China’s Experience
Over the last ten years or so, there has been an active scholarly exploration into the concept of “gongsheng” and related theory-building in the...
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Rethinking hereditary relations: the reconstitutor as the evolutionary unit of heredity
This paper introduces the reconstitutor as a comprehensive unit of heredity within the context of evolutionary research. A reconstitutor is the...
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Unearthing the entangled roots of urban agriculture
This study examines urban agriculture (UA) in Sacramento, California (USA), the nation's self-branded “Farm-to-Fork Capital,” in order to highlight...
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Conscious Capitalism from a Christian Worldview Lens
This chapter critiques the fundamental principles, values, management, leadership and policy assumptions of Conscious Capitalism from a Christian...