• Nouvelles conversations de morale
    with Madeleine de Scudéry
    Chez Jacob van Ellinkhuysen, Marchand Libraire Sur la Grande Sale de la Cour, au Dauphin. 2015.
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    Brein en bewustzijn: gedachtesprongen tussen hersenen en mensbeeld (edited book)
    with J. Janssen
    Soeterbeeck Programma, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. 2006.
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    Although the critical reconceptualization of Corporate Citizenship (CC) proposed by Néron and Norman appropriately focuses on connotations that enable us to distinguish between CC and the all-inclusive notion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), I argue that they fail to properly account for the misguiding potential of the features of political citizenship they propose to develop further in CC theorizing. It is concluded that the notion of CC is better dispensed with altogether, and that a …Read more
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    Influence of physicians' life stances on attitudes to end-of-life decisions and actual end-of-life decision-making in six countries
    with J. Cohen, F. Mortier, R. Lofmark, M. Norup, C. Cartwright, K. Faisst, C. Canova, B. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, and J. Bilsen
    Journal of Medical Ethics 34 (4): 247-253. 2008.
    Aim: To examine how physicians’ life stances affect their attitudes to end-of-life decisions and their actual end-of-life decision-making.Methods: Practising physicians from various specialties involved in the care of dying patients in Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Australia received structured questionnaires on end-of-life care, which included questions about their life stance. Response rates ranged from 53% in Australia to 68% in Denmark. General attitudes, intende…Read more
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    Although the critical reconceptualization of Corporate Citizenship proposed by Néron and Norman appropriately focuses on connotations that enable us to distinguish between CC and the all-inclusive notion of Corporate Social Responsibility, I argue that they fail to properly account for the misguiding potential of the features of political citizenship they propose to develop further in CC theorizing. It is concluded that the notion of CC is better dispensed with altogether, and that a reorientati…Read more
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    What one may come to know
    Analysis 64 (2): 95-105. 2004.
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    ABSTRACT:Although a research focus on the increasing involvement of corporations in shaping and maintaining the global rules of the game points out promising avenues for future research, it simultaneously makes clear how little currently established, mostly managerial conceptual frameworks have to offer in making sense of these developments. It is argued that we need to expand the rather restricted perspectives that these frameworks provide, in order to explore new conceptual foundations that wi…Read more
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    Multimo dal Logics of Products of Topologies
    with G. Bezhanishvili, B. ten Cate, and D. Sarenac
    Studia Logica 84 (3): 369-392. 2006.
    We introduce the horizontal and vertical topologies on the product of topological spaces, and study their relationship with the standard product topology. We show that the modal logic of products of topological spaces with horizontal and vertical topologies is the fusion S4 ⊕ S4. We axiomatize the modal logic of products of spaces with horizontal, vertical, and standard product topologies.We prove that both of these logics are complete for the product of rational numbers ℚ × ℚ with the appropria…Read more
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    Colour is a culturalist category
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (4): 507-508. 2005.
    Extrapolation of Steels & Belpaeme's (S&B) results show that colour is a culturalist category. Populations will only share the category of colour if it is built into the system. If “left to themselves” different populations may or may not stumble on the colour category. Populations that do not share a colour category may still be able to communicate in a wide variety of environments.
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    Social Networking Sites as a Tool for Contact Tracing: Urge for Ethical Framework for Normative Guidance
    with M. L. Stein, B. O. Rump, and M. E. E. Kretzschmar
    Public Health Ethics 7 (1): 57-60. 2014.
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    Winning at a Losing Game? Side-Effects of Perceived Tournament Promotion Incentives in Audit Firms
    with Jorien L. Pruijssers and Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens
    Journal of Business Ethics 162 (1): 149-167. 2020.
    Tournament-like promotion systems are the default in audit firms, which are generally internally owned professional partnerships. While awarding promotions in a contest-like fashion stimulates contestants’ motivation and productivity, it may also upset an organizations’ ethical climate and trigger ethically adverse behaviors. Since nearly all research on promotion tournaments in management has been conducted in public firms, little is known about how these incentive systems operate in profession…Read more
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    Why We Should Understand Conversational AI as a Tool
    with Marlies N. van Lingen, Noor A. A. Giesbertz, and Karin R. Jongsma
    American Journal of Bioethics 23 (5): 22-24. 2023.
    The introduction of chatGPT illustrates the rapid developments within Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) technologies (Gordijn and Have 2023). Ethical reflection and analysis of CAI are c...
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    AbstractThe Green Revolution still exerts an important influence on agricultural policy as a technology-centred development strategy. A main policy narrative underpinning the Green Revolution was first expounded in Transforming Traditional Agriculture, a book published in 1964 by Nobel Prize-winning economist Ted Schultz. He famously argued that traditional farmers were ‘poor but efficient’. As farmers responded to economic incentives, technology-driven strategies would transform traditional agr…Read more
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    Dynamics of Positive Frequency Dependent Selection Triggers Selection for Silence
    with I. Hashem and V. De Buck
    Complexity 2022 1-11. 2022.
    Positive frequency dependent selection is a natural selection regime where the fitness of a phenotype increases with its frequency in the population. Examples can be typically found in the spread of disease tolerance strategies in a population. A characterizing feature of PFDS is that the focal allele may experience favorable selection only when it becomes more frequent in the population, while being selected against when it is rare. In this paper, by applying a solution concept from evolutionar…Read more
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    Meaningful Respect for the Autonomy of Persons with “Completed Life”: An Analysis in Light of Empirical Research
    with G. J. M. W. van Thiel, E. J. van Wijngaarden, and M. L. Zomers
    American Journal of Bioethics 22 (2): 65-67. 2022.
    In the Netherlands, the legalization of assisted suicide for persons with a death wish without severe illness, often referred to as persons with “completed life” or “tiredness of life,” is intensel...
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    Winning at a Losing Game? Side-Effects of Perceived Tournament Promotion Incentives in Audit Firms
    with Jorien L. Pruijssers and Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens
    Journal of Business Ethics 162 (1): 149-167. 2020.
    Tournament-like promotion systems are the default in audit firms, which are generally internally owned professional partnerships. While awarding promotions in a contest-like fashion stimulates contestants’ motivation and productivity, it may also upset an organizations’ ethical climate and trigger ethically adverse behaviors. Since nearly all research on promotion tournaments in management has been conducted in public firms, little is known about how these incentive systems operate in profession…Read more
  • The Metaphysics of Continuity (review)
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 4. 2005.
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    Cognitive reactivity as outcome and working mechanism of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for recurrently depressed patients in remission
    with M. B. Cladder-Micus, A. R. T. Donders, J. Spijker, J. N. Vrijsen, and A. E. M. Speckens
    Cognition and Emotion 32 (2): 371-378. 2017.
    ABSTRACTMajor depressive disorder is a prevalent condition with high relapse rates. There is evidence that cognitive reactivity is an important vulnerability factor for the recurrence of depression. Mindfulness-based interventions are designed to reduce relapse rates, with cognitive reactivity as one of the proposed working mechanisms. In a randomised controlled trial we compared the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy with treatment-as-usual on cognitive reactivity in recurrently depr…Read more
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    Correction to: Winning at a Losing Game? Side-Effects of Perceived Tournament Promotion Incentives in Audit Firms
    with Jorien L. Pruijssers and Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens
    Journal of Business Ethics 162 (1): 169-169. 2020.
    The name of the third author was incorrect in the initial online publication. The original article has been corrected.
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    (Hard ernst) 126–132 corrigendum
    with Erik J. Olsson, Believing More, and U. Kriegel
    Erkenntnis 57 (1): 457-458. 2002.
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    Biblical quotations in Faustus’s Capitula
    HTS Theological Studies 69 (1). 2013.
  • Dynamics of nonlinear feedback control
    with H. Snippe
    In Robert Schwartz (ed.), Perception, Blackwell. pp. 182-182. 2004.
    Feedback control in neural systems is ubiquitous. Here we study the mathematics of nonlinear feedback control. We compare models in which the input is multiplied by a dynamic gain (multiplicative control) with models in which the input is divided by a dynamic attenuation (divisive control). The gain signal (resp. the attenuation signal) is obtained through a concatenation of an instantaneous nonlinearity and a linear low-pass filter operating on the output of the feedback loop. For input steps, …Read more
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    Ties That Grind? Corroborating a Typology of Social Contracting Problems
    with Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens and Muel Kaptein
    Journal of Business Ethics 49 (3): 235-252. 2004.
    Contractualism conceives of firm-stakeholder relations as cooperative schemes for mutual benefit. In essence, contractualism holds that these schemes, as well as the normative principles that guide and constrain them, are ultimately ratified by the consent and endorsement of those subject to them. This paper explores the empirical validity of a contractualist perspective on firm-stakeholder relations. It first develops a typology of firm-stakeholder contracting problems. It subsequently confront…Read more
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    Rethinking Organizational Ethics: A Plea for Pluralism
    with Ben Wempe and Theo van Willigenburg
    Journal of Business Ethics 55 (4): 385-393. 2004.
    This paper challenges a pervasive, if not always explicit assumption of the present state of theorising in business ethics. This is the idea that a workable theory of organizational ethics must provide a unified perspective on its subject matter. In this paper we will sketch the broad outlines of an alternative understanding of business ethics, which focuses on constraints on corporate conduct that cannot reasonably be rejected. These constraints stem from at least three different levels or sphe…Read more
  • Breviloquium. De theologie in kort besteh. Band II: Het herstellend beginsel
    with Bonaventura
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 66 (3): 595-595. 2004.