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14Alternatives of OneselfPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (2): 381-400. 2000.This paper argues that there are practical problems of such a kind that neither impartial morality nor rational choice theory can provide us with comfort and guidance in our attempt to make the right choice if confronted with such a problem. It argues that both morality and rational choice theory are bound to misconstrue problems of this kind. Appreciating the limits of both morality and rational choice theory, as currently discussed in the literature (Wolf, Morton, Pettit, Hollis & Sugden), ena…Read more
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6Discipline-doorbrekend denkenAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 115 (3): 281-285. 2023.Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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5Zijn vreemden onbetrouwbaar?Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 113 (3): 399-406. 2021.Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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7Don't Be Fooled: A Philosophy of Common SenseRoutledge. 2017.In the debate leading up to the EU referendum in the United Kingdom, the British politician Michael Gove declared that "people in this country have had enough of experts". In the 2016 Presidential campaign in the United States, Donald Trump waged a war against the very idea of expertise. Yet if you are worried about your child's behaviour, don't know which laptop to buy, or just want to get fit, the answer is easy: ask an expert. Where do we draw the line? Why do we appear to know more and more …Read more
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11Pluraliteit organiseren vraagt niet om inclusief universalismeAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 114 (1): 79-82. 2022.Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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5Boomkens over de meaning of lifeAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 108 (4): 533-537. 2016.Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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15DialectiekAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 112 (4): 384-389. 2020.Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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17Self-Management as Socially Embedded EndeavorPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 27 (4): 425-430. 2020.When we first anticipated the research project concluded with this special issue, about 8 years ago, it seemed timely and appropriate to investigate the opportunities and the challenges of self-management in mental health care. At the time self-management was well on the rise in general health care, offering both empowerment to patients and efficiency and cost-effectiveness to the health care system. It seemed a most promising approach in an era that celebrates individualistic self-reliance. And…Read more
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14Alternative of Oneself: Recasting Some of Our Practical ProblemsPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 60 (2): 381-400. 2000.This paper argues that there are practical problems of such a kind that neither impartial morality nor rational choice theory can provide us with comfort and guidance in our attempt to make the right choice if confronted with such a problem. It argues that both morality and rational choice theory are bound to misconstrue problems of this kind. Appreciating the limits of both morality and rational choice theory, as currently discussed in the literature, enables us to identify the features of thes…Read more
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45Human Action, Deliberation and Causation (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1998.The essays collected together in this volume, many of them written by leading scholars in the field, explore the commonsensical fact that our presence as..
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22Wat maakt blind? Liefde? Of Wetenschap?Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 107 (1): 95-116. 2015.Blindness in therapy? Love? Or science? In this paper we dispute what seems an obvious truism these days: that increasing the influence of scientific research on psychotherapy is a good thing. We begin with an exploration of two distinct capacities that contribute in significant ways to human flourishing: knowledge and love. We then argue that modern society rather onesidedly capitalizes on the growth of scientific knowledge. This has an important drawback because the dominant model of growth pr…Read more
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72Alternatives of Oneself: Recasting some of our practical problemsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (2): 381-400. 2000.This paper argues that there are practical problems of such a kind that neither impartial morality nor rational choice theory can provide us with comfort and guidance in our attempt to make the right choice if confronted with such a problem. It argues that both morality and rational choice theory are bound to misconstrue problems of this kind. Appreciating the limits of both morality and rational choice theory, as currently discussed in the literature (Wolf, Morton, Pettit, Hollis & Sugden), ena…Read more
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204Selfless Self-LoveEthical Theory and Moral Practice 9 (1): 3-25. 2006.This paper challenges the idea that there is a natural opposition between self-interest and morality. It does by developing an account of self-love according to which we can have self-regarding reasons that (1) differ substantially from the standard conception of self-interest, and that (2) share enough crucial features with moral reasons to count as morally respectable.
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200Nou zeg, waar bemoei je je meeAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 103 (1): 4. 2011.This paper investigates the possibilities of ordinary people to estabish a moral authority in a subclass of everyday scenarios in the public domain that are characterised by an underdetermination of the obtaining norms and regulations. The paper offers a strategy based on hospitality to challenge the all too common practice of ignoring one’s responsibility as a moral agent and to hide in one’s shell, hoping that others (police power!) will solve one’s problem. The paper begins with a description…Read more
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196Learning to ActSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 3 (1): 11-35. 2016.In this paper I argue that to understand minded agency – the capacity we typically find instantiated in instances of human behaviour that could sensibly be questioned by asking “What did you do?” – one needs to understand childhood, i.e. the trajectory of learning to act. I discuss two different types of trajectory, both of which seem to take place during childhood and both of which might be considered crucial to learning to act: a growth of bodily control (GBC) and a growth in taking responsibi…Read more
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114True to ourselvesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 6 (1). 1998.The paper addresses the problem of authenticity from a point of view that diverges from the more usual social, political, or moral approaches, by focusing very explicitly on the internal psychological make-up of human agents in an attempt to identify the conditions that would enable us to use the colloquial phrase 'being true to ourselves' in a way that is philosophically tenable. First, it is argued that the most important and problematic condition is the requirement that agents can be the sour…Read more
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Albury Castell, Donald Borchert and Arthur Zucker, eds., An Introduction to Modern Philosophy. Examining the Human Condition, 6th ed (review)Philosophy in Review 14 (5): 315-317. 1994.
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3Personal Identity ManagementIn Catriona Mackenzie & Kim Atkins (eds.), Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, Routledge. 2008.
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Morton White, The Question of Free Will: A Holistic View (review)Philosophy in Review 15 70-72. 1995.
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32From Daily Life to PhilosophyMetaphilosophy 35 (4): 517-535. 2004.It is argued that the little everyday things of life often provide excellent entries into the intellectual problems of academic philosophy. This is illustrated with an analysis of four small stories taken from daily life in which people are in agony because they do not know what to do. It is argued that the crucial question in these stories is a philosophical question; not a closed request for empirical or formal information, but an open question about how best to conceive of human experience.
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14Anticipating reasons of one's ownIn Maureen Sie, Marc Slors & Bert van den Brink (eds.), Reasons of One's Own, Ashgate. pp. 87--105. 2004.
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42Moral competence in action: IntroductionPhilosophical Explorations 3 (3). 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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66Competences: An introduction to educational and developmental perspectives on minded agencyPhilosophical Explorations 8 (3). 2005.This Article does not have an abstract
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