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448Real friends: How the internet can Foster friendship (review)Ethics and Information Technology 10 (1): 71-79. 2008.Dean Cocking and Steve Matthews’ article “Unreal Friends” argues that the formation of purely mediated friendships via the Internet is impossible. I critique their argument and contend that mediated contexts, including the Internet, can actually promote exceptionally strong friendships according to the very conceptual criteria utilized by Cocking and Matthews. I first argue that offline relationships can be constrictive and insincere, distorting important indicators and dynamics in the formation…Read more
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60Three Schools of Thought on Freedom in Liberal, Technological SocietiesTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 14 (3): 176-193. 2010.Are citizens of contemporary technological society authors of their own lives? With Alasdair MacIntyre, Bruno Latour and Albert Borgmann, we discuss the shortcomings of traditional liberalism in terms of its ability to answer this question. MacIntyre argues that biological vulnerabilities and social interdependencies establish meaningful parameters within which reason and willing emerge. But MacIntyre ignores technologies as a third parameter. Latour defines humans as nodes in a socio-technical …Read more
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56Philosophy in the Age of NeoliberalismSocial Epistemology 26 (3-4): 311-330. 2012.This essay argues that political, economic, and cultural developments have made the twentieth century disciplinary approach to philosophy unsustainable. It (a) discusses the reasons behind this unsustainability, which also affect the academy at large, (b) describes applied philosophy as an inadequate theoretical reaction to contemporary societal pressures, and (c) proposes a dedisciplined and interstitial approach??field philosophy??as a better response to the challenges facing the twenty-first …Read more
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19Representation in digital systemsIn P. Brey, A. Briggle & K. Waelbers (eds.), Current Issues in Computing and Philosophy, Ios Press. pp. 175--116. 2008.
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29The Institution of Philosophy: Escaping Disciplinary CaptureMetaphilosophy 47 (1): 26-38. 2016.Philosophers view themselves as critical thinkers par excellence. But they have overlooked the institutional arrangements that govern their lives. The early twentieth-century research university disciplined philosophers, placing them in departments, where they wrote for and were judged by their disciplinary peers. Oddly, this change has been unremarked upon, or has been treated as simply part of the necessary professionalization of an academic field of research. The department has been tacitly a…Read more
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