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513Earthing TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (2/3). 2017.In this article, we reflect on the conditions under which new technologies emerge in the Anthropocene and raise the question of how to conceptualize sustainable technologies therein. To this end, we explore an eco-centric approach to technology development, called biomimicry. We discuss opposing views on biomimetic technologies, ranging from a still anthropocentric orientation focusing on human management and control of Earth’s life-support systems, to a real eco-centric concept of nature, found…Read more
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231Levinasian ethics in businessIn Deborah C. Poff & Alex C. Michalos (eds.), Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics, Springer Verlag. 2021.
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348Exploring Ethical Decision Making in Responsible Innovation: The case of innovations for healthy foodIn Blok V., Tempels T. H., Edwin Pietersma & Jansen L. (eds.), Responsible Innovation 3, Springer International Publishing. pp. 209-230. 2017.In order to strengthen RI in the private sector, it is imperative to understand how companies organise this process, where it takes place, and what considerations and motivations are central in the innovation process. In this chapter, the questions of whether and where normative considerations play a role in the innovation process, and whether dimensions of RI are present in the innovation process, are addressed. In order answer these research questions, a theoretical framework is developed base…Read more
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267Dealing with the Wicked Problem of Sustainability: The Role of Individual Virtuous CompetenceBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 34 (3): 297-327. 2015.Over the past few years, individual competencies for sustainability have received a lot of attention in the educational, sustainability and business administration literature. In this article, we explore the meaning of two rather new and unfamiliar moral competencies in the field of corporate sustainability: normative competence and action competence. Because sustainability can be seen as a highly complex or ‘wicked’ problem, it is unclear what ‘normativity’ in the normative competence and ‘resp…Read more
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272Contesting the Will: Phenomenological Reflections on Four Structural Moments in the Concept of WillingJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 49 (1): 18-35. 2018.The starting point of this article is the undeniable experience of conscious willing despite its rejection by scientific research. The article starts a phenomenology of willing at the level of the phenomenon of willing itself, without assuming its embeddedness in a faculty of the soul, consciousness and so forth. After the introduction, a brief history of the philosophy of willing is provided, from which the paradoxical conclusion is drawn that, according to phenomenologists like Heidegger and h…Read more
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Kontroversen über die sprache.: Die einseitigkeit Von heideggers auseinandersetzung mit Ernst jüngerExistentia 17 (1-2): 19-30. 2007.
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284Ecological Innovation: Biomimicry as a New Way of Thinking and Acting EcologicallyJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 29 (2): 203-217. 2016.In this article, we critically reflect on the concept of biomimicry. On the basis of an analysis of the concept of biomimicry in the literature and its philosophical origin, we distinguish between a strong and a weaker concept of biomimicry. The strength of the strong concept of biomimicry is that nature is seen as a measure by which to judge the ethical rightness of our technological innovations, but its weakness is found in questionable presuppositions. These presuppositions are addressed by t…Read more
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379Naming Being – or the philosophical Content of Heidegger’s National SocialismHeidegger Studies 28 101-122. 2012.This contribution discusses the philosophical meaning of the Martin Heidegger’s Rectoral address. First of all, Heidegger’s philosophical basic experience is sketched as the background of his Rectoral address; the being-historical concept of “Anfang”. Then, the philosophical question of the Rectoral address is discussed. It is shown, that Die Selbstbehauptung der deutschen Universität is asking for the identity of human being there (Dasein) in connection with the question about dem Eigenen (the …Read more
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265The Ideal of a Zero-Waste Humanity: Philosophical Reflections on the Demand for a Bio-Based EconomyJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 28 (2): 353-374. 2015.In this paper we inquire into the fundamental assumptions that underpin the ideal of the Bio-Based Economy as it is currently developed . By interpreting the BBE from the philosophical perspective on economy developed by Georges Bataille, we demonstrate how the BBE is fully premised on a thinking of scarcity. As a result, the BBE exclusively frames economic problems in terms of efficient production, endeavoring to exclude a thinking of abundance and wastefulness. Our hypothesis is that this not …Read more
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17Recensies - René ten Bos & Mollie Painter-Morland (2013). Bedrijfsethiek. Filosofische Perspectieven. Amsterdam: Boom, 236 pp., 32,50 € (review)Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 106 (1): 94-97. 2014.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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234Heidegger and Derrida on the Nature of Questioning: Towards the Rehabilitation of Questioning in Contemporary PhilosophyJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 46 (4): 307-322. 2015.In this article, the Heidegger and Derrida controversy about the nature of questioning is revisited in order to rehabilitate questioning as an essential characteristic of contemporary philosophy. After exploring Heidegger's characterization of philosophy as questioning and Derrida's criticism of the primacy of questioning, we will evaluate Derrida's criticism and articulate three characteristics of Heidegger's concept of questioning. After our exploration of Heidegger's concept of questioning, w…Read more
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De andere Anfang van de filosofie. Kritische kanttekeningen bij Heideggers filosofische methodeAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 102 (4). 2010.
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359Moral “Lock-In” in Responsible Innovation: The Ethical and Social Aspects of Killing Day-Old Chicks and Its AlternativesJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 28 (5): 939-960. 2013.The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework that will help in understanding and evaluating, along social and ethical lines, the issue of killing day-old male chicks and two alternative directions of responsible innovations to solve this issue. The following research questions are addressed: Why is the killing of day-old chicks morally problematic? Are the proposed alternatives morally sound? To what extent do the alternatives lead to responsible innovation? The conceptual framewor…Read more
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Nietzsche als einde en als overgang. Heideggers confrontatie met Nietzsche in de dertiger jarenTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 70 (4): 763. 2008.
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382Ecological Innovation: Biomimicry as a New Way of Thinking and Acting EcologicallyJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 29 (2): 203-217. 2013.In this article, we critically reflect on the concept of biomimicry. On the basis of an analysis of the concept of biomimicry in the literature and its philosophical origin, we distinguish between a strong and a weaker concept of biomimicry. The strength of the strong concept of biomimicry is that nature is seen as a measure by which to judge the ethical rightness of our technological innovations, but its weakness is found in questionable presuppositions. These presuppositions are addressed by t…Read more
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241Being-in-the-World as Being-in-Nature: An Ecological Perspective on Being and TimeStudia Phaenomenologica 14 215-235. 2014.Because the status of nature is ambiguous in Being and Time, we explore an ecological perspective on Heidegger’s early main work in this article. Our hypothesis is that the affordance theory of James Gibson enables us to a) to understand being-in-the-world as being-in-nature, b) reconnect man and nature and c) understand the twofold sense of nature in Being and Time. After exploring Heidegger’s concept of being-in-the-world and Gibson’s concept of being-in-nature, we confront Heidegger’s and Gib…Read more
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254Reconnecting with Nature in the Age of TechnologyEnvironmental Philosophy 11 (2): 307-332. 2014.The relation between Martin Heidegger and radical environmentalism has been subject of discussion for several years now. On the one hand, Heidegger is portrayed as a forerunner of the deep ecology movement, providing an alternative for the technological age we live in. On the other, commentators contend that the basic thrust of Heidegger’s thought cannot be found in such an ecological ethos. In this article, this debate is revisited in order to answer the question whether it is possible to conce…Read more
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Die bändigung Des elementaren: Der Wille zur macht AlS Kunst in Ernst jüngers »der arbeiter«Existentia 18 (1-2): 83-98. 2008.
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1078Individual Competencies for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Literature and Practice PerspectiveJournal of Business Ethics 135 (2): 233-252. 2016.Because corporate social responsibility can be beneficial to both companies and its stakeholders, interest in factors that support CSR performance has grown in recent years. A thorough integration of CSR in core business processes is particularly important for achieving effective long-term CSR practices. Here, we explored the individual CSR-related competencies that support CSR implementation in a corporate context. First, a systematic literature review was performed in which relevant scientific…Read more
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5This book examines the work of Ernst Jünger and its effect on the development of Martin Heidegger’s influential philosophy of technology. Vincent Blok offers a unique treatment of Jünger’s philosophy and his conception of the age of technology, in which both world and man appear in terms of their functionality and efficiency. The primary objective of Jünger’s novels and essays is to make the transition from the totally mobilized world of the 20 th century toward a world in which a new type of ma…Read more
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282Biomimicry and the Materiality of Ecological Technology and InnovationEnvironmental Philosophy 13 (2): 195-214. 2016.In this paper, we reflect on the concept of nature that is presupposed in biomimetic approaches to technology and innovation. Because current practices of biomimicry presuppose a technological model of nature, it is questionable whether its claim of being a more ecosystem friendly approach to technology and innovation is justified. In order to maintain the potentiality of biomimicry as ecological innovation, we explore an alternative to this technological model of nature. To this end, we reflect…Read more
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233The Human Glance, the Experience of Environmental Distress and the “Affordance” of Nature: Toward a Phenomenology of the Ecological CrisisJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 28 (5): 925-938. 2015.The problem we face today is that there is a huge gap between our ethical judgments about the ecological crisis on the one hand and our ethical behavior according to these judgments on the other. In this article, we ask to what extent a phenomenology of the ecological crisis enables us to bridge this gap and display more ethical or pro-environmental behavior. To answer this question, our point of departure is the affordance theory of the American psychologist and founding father of ecological ps…Read more
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72Heidegger Und Der Nationalsozialismus Oder Die Frage Nach Dem Philosophischen EmpirismusExistentia 19 (1-2): 51-72. 2009.
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660Der „religiöse“ Charakter von Heideggers philosophischer Methode: relegere, re-eligere, relinquereStudia Phaenomenologica 11 285-307. 2011.The question addressed in this article is to what extent a destructed concept of religion can be said to characterize the philosophical method of Martin Heidegger. In order to approach this question, we first characterize his method as “Vollzug der Fraglichkeit”: philosophy in its deepest sense does not mean to give answers to questions but to ask questions. According to Heidegger, the execution of questioning consists in the “transforming repetition” of the leading question of philosophy in ord…Read more
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6409An indication of Being – Reflections on Heidegger’s Engagement with Ernst JüngerJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 42 (2): 194-208. 2011.In the thirties, Martin Heidegger was heavily involved with the work of Ernst Jünger (1895-1998). He says that he is indebted to Jünger for the ‘enduring stimulus’ provided by his descriptions. The question is: what exactly could this enduring stimulus be? Several interpreters have examined this question, but the recent publication of lectures and annotations of the thirties allow us to follow Heidegger’s confrontation with Jünger more precisely. According to Heidegger, the main theme of his ph…Read more
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497Phenomenology and the Empirical Turn: a Phenomenological Analysis of PostphenomenologyPhilosophy and Technology 29 (4): 313-333. 2016.This paper provides a phenomenological analysis of postphenomenological philosophy of technology. While acknowledging that the results of its analyses are to be recognized as original, insightful, and valuable, we will argue that in its execution of the empirical turn, postphenomenology forfeits a phenomenological dimension of questioning. By contrasting the postphenomenological method with Heidegger’s understanding of phenomenology as developed in his early Freiburg lectures and in Being and Ti…Read more
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2421The Emerging Concept of Responsible Innovation. Three Reasons why it is Questionable and Calls for a Radical Transformation of the Concept of InnovationIn Bert- Jaap Koops, Ilse Oosterlaken, Henny Romijn, Tsjalling Swiwestra & Jeroen Van Den Hoven (eds.), Responsible Innovation 2: Concepts, Approaches, and Applications, Springer International Publishing. pp. 19-35. 2015.Abstract In this chapter, we challenge the presupposed concept of innovation in the responsible innovation literature. As a first step, we raise several questions with regard to the possibility of ‘responsible’ innovation and point at several difficulties which undermine the supposedly responsible character of innovation processes, based on an analysis of the input, throughput and output of innovation processes. It becomes clear that the practical applicability of the concept of responsible inno…Read more
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Wageningen University and ResearchCommunication, Philosophy and Technology (CPT)Associate Professor
Wageningen, GE, Netherlands
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