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333‘Building a Ship while Sailing It.’ Epistemic Humility and the Temporality of Non-knowledge in Political Decision-making on COVID-19Social Epistemology 35 (3): 232-244. 2021.The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has had far-reaching effects on public health around the world. Attempts to prevent the spread of the disease by quarantine have led to large-scale global socioeconomic disrup- tion. During the outbreak, public authorities and politicians have struggled with how to manage widespread ignorance regarding the virus. Drawing on insights from social epistemology and the emerging interdisciplinary field of ignorance studies, this article provides evidence that…Read more
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298Speaking Cyborg: Technoculture and TechnonatureZygon 37 (2): 279-288. 2002.Two ways of self‐interpretation merged in Western thought: the Hebrew and the Greek. What is unique, if anything, about the human species? The reinterpretation of this problem has been a constant process; here I am referring to Philip Hefner and the term created co‐creator, and particularly to Donna Haraway and the term cyborg. Simultaneously, humans have been fascinated by the thought of transgressing the boundaries that seem to separate them from the rest of nature. Any culture reflects the wa…Read more
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124Self-Regulation in Informal Workplace Learning: Influence of Organizational Learning Culture and Job CharacteristicsFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.The digital shift leads to increasing changes. Employees can deal with changes through informal learning that enables needs-based development. For successful informal learning, self-regulated learning is crucial, i.e., to set goals, plan, apply strategies, monitor, and regulate learning for example by applying resource strategies. However, existing SRL models all refer to formal learning settings. Because informal learning differs from formal learning, this study investigates whether SRL models …Read more
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111Comparing Prescriptive and Descriptive Gender Stereotypes About Children, Adults, and the ElderlyFrontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.
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107Tackling the Corona pandemic: Managing nonknowledge in political decision-makingIn Matthias Gross & Linsey McGoey (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies (2nd edition), Routledge. 2022.During the corona pandemic, politicians have been forced to make urgent decisions under pressure while balancing between challenging options: protecting citizens’ health or causing major social and economic difficulties through security measures. Part of the dilemma has been whether the chosen security measures are oversized, causing fundamental economic and social problems, or not sufficiently enough, thus putting people’s lives at risk. In illustrating our discussion with actions taken by pres…Read more
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84Non‐adjacent Dependency Learning in Humans and Other AnimalsTopics in Cognitive Science 12 (3): 843-858. 2020.Wilson et al. focus on one class of AGL tasks: the cognitively demanding task of detecting non‐adjacent dependencies (NADs) among items. They provide a typology of the different types of NADs in natural languages and in AGL tasks. A range of cues affect NAD learning, ranging from the variability and number of intervening elements to the presence of shared prosodic cues between the dependent items. These cues, important for humans to discover non‐adjacent dependencies, are also found to facilitat…Read more
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65The Cyborg as an Interpretation of Culture‐NatureZygon 36 (1): 49-56. 2001.The idea of “nature” performs an important cultural work. The cyborg‐nature is an attempt to free ourselves from the features of the culturally authorized concepts of nature. The cyborg offers new metaphors to both academic and popular theorizing for comprehending the different ways that sciences and technologies affect our lives, subjectivities, and concepts. The cyborg is a lived reality and a metaphor. Paul Tillich deemed it necessary to have a mythos of technology to explain our technologies…Read more
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64The Role of Digital School-Home Communication in Teacher Well-BeingFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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62On love and work: A vow of wholeness in writingHypatia 17 (2): 133-144. 2002.: Noting that academic writing typically falls in the category of work, this piece considers the relationship such writing might have with love. Animated by its observation that love's affinity with wholeness distinguishes it from work's tendency to divide a subject from herself, the essay playfully develops this contrast by telling a story of writing and wholeness. This story attempts to embody the contrasts of which it speaks, and in the process, to discover a counterpoint to the work of writi…Read more
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60Women Who Know Their PlaceHuman Nature 23 (2): 133-148. 2012.Differences between men and women in the performance of tests designed to measure spatial abilities are explained by evolutionary psychologists in terms of adaptive design. The Hunter-Gatherer Theory of Spatial Ability suggests that the adoption of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle (assuming a sexual division of labor) created differential selective pressure on the development of spatial skills in men and women and, therefore, cognitive differences between the sexes. Here, we examine a basic spatial s…Read more
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54Signaling Sustainability Leadership: Empirical Evidence of the Value of DJSI Membership (review)Journal of Business Ethics 101 (3): 493-505. 2011.We explore the relationship between corporate sustainability, reputation, and firm value by asking whether signaling sustainability leadership through membership on a recognized sustainability index is value generating. Increasingly, stakeholders are demanding that firms demonstrate their commitment to sustainability. One signal that companies can send to stakeholders to indicate that they are sustainability leaders is membership on a recognized “best in class” sustainability index. This article…Read more
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42Comparing Causality in Freudian Reasoning and Critical RealismJournal of Critical Realism 9 (1): 5-32. 2010.This article initially discusses reasons why Freud researchers turn to critical realism since this is what led me to compare causality in the two traditions in the first place. Three arguments on causality follow. First, it is argued that Freud's analyses of unconscious processes merit closer attention by critical realists, focusing on the relation between causal unconscious processes and rationality, and causal unconscious processes and social change. It may be objected that this does not conce…Read more
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39Presence with a Difference: Buddhists and Feminists on SubjectivityHypatia 9 (4). 1994.Essentialist and postmodern feminisms are often regarded as incompatible. I propose that Buddhist theories of subjectivity change the nature of the tension between them as presently construed because Buddhist traditions describe a mind not wholly governed by language, and a subjective mental dimension that is entirely integrated with the body and its sensations. A corollary is the compatibility Buddhists perceive between conditioned subjective states (akin to postmodern feminisms) and the uncond…Read more
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36Activists and BusinessProceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 22 469-478. 2011.This paper contains an exploratory study of networks of activist groups operating versus firms to impact norms on corporate social responsibility. It providessome initial examinations of using webmetrics to trace activist networks and tactics. We conducted an empirical study of an organization that acts like the proverbial “spider in the web” in activist networks in the Netherlands: SOMO, the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations. Mapping such an organization, in which networks on se…Read more
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35Intra-individual variability and continuity of action and perception measures in infantsFrontiers in Psychology 6. 2015.
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34L. Di Paola: Viaggi, trasporti e istituzioni. Studi sul cursus publicus. Pp. 163. Messina: Di. Sc. A. M., 1999. Paper, L. 48,000. ISBN: 88-8268-099- (review)The Classical Review 51 (02): 437-. 2001.
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32Perceptions of Privacy in the Care of Elderly People in Five European CountriesNursing Ethics 10 (1): 39-47. 2003.The focus of this article is on elderly patients’ and nursing staff perceptions of privacy in the care of elderly patients/residents in five European countries. Privacy includes physical, social and informational elements. The results show that perceptions of privacy were strongest in the UK (Scotland) and weakest in Greece. Country comparisons revealed statistically significant differences between the perceptions of elderly patients and also between those of nurses working in the same ward or l…Read more
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31Beauty in the eyes of God. Byzantine aesthetics and Basil of caesareaByzantion 82 165-212. 2012.The quintessence of Byzantine faith is the twofold identification of the God-Man. Yet, the image of God Jesus Christ and the transcendent Trinity is a one-God concept. Inevitability, I argue Byzantine aesthetics had to recognize God as both anthropomorphous and divine. Since, omission of God’s divinity would verify God as divisible. In line with apophatic theology, Byzantine aesthetics used non-categorizations and non-identifications, what I denominate meta-images, to teach about God’s divinity …Read more
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31Perceptions of Autonomy in the Care of Elderly People in Five European CountriesNursing Ethics 10 (1): 28-38. 2003.The focus of this article is perceptions of elderly patients and nurses regarding patients’ autonomy in nursing practice. Autonomy is empirically defined as having two components: information received/given as a prerequisite and decision making as the action. The results indicated differences between staff and patient perceptions of patient autonomy for both components in all five countries in which this survey was conducted. There were also differences between countries in the perceptions of pa…Read more
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30European cosmopolitanism in question (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2012.Cosmopolitanism is currently one of the most prominent topics in the social sciences and humanities, and a key concept for understanding globalization. This collection of essays, featuring a line-up of leading international scholars, argues that most work on cosmopolitanism uses a normative model, rather than fully interrogating the issue empirically, comparatively and globally. This ambitious and ground-breaking collection will push the boundaries of the debate on cosmopolitanism into new areas…Read more
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29Perceptions of Autonomy, Privacy and Informed Consent in the Care of Elderly People in Five European Countries: general overviewNursing Ethics 10 (1): 18-27. 2003.Ethical issues in the care of elderly people have been identified in many countries. We report the findings of a comparative research project funded by the European Commission, which took place between 1998 and 2001. The project explored the issues of autonomy (part I), privacy (part II) and informed consent (part III) in nursing practice. Data were collected from elderly residents/patients (n = 573) and nursing staff (n = 887) in five European countries: Finland, Spain, Greece, Germany and the …Read more
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29Den Tieren Gerechtigkeit: Martha Nussbaums Tierethik als Prüfstein für ihren »capabilities approach«Zeitschrift Für Evangelische Ethik 56 (2): 116-128. 2012.
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28The Every-Day Miracle of Legal Translation: Deborah Cao: Translating Law , 189 pp, ISBN-13: 978-1-85359-954-5International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 21 (1): 67-72. 2008.
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28The smell of myth – Homer as a performative medium in design researchTechnoetic Arts 9 (2-3): 163-169. 2012.Researching user experience in smell perception I will contribute to a methodological approach of generating meaning creating knowledge and awareness in a culture of senses, understanding smell as a storying element in myth corresponding with design. In my paper I address images in Homeric language triggering mythical ‘smell scapes’. I examine smell perception in the perspective of narrative elements reflecting interactions of actants and agency in actor networks: Addressing myth as a challenge …Read more
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28The development of ethical guidelines for nurses’ collegiality using the Delphi methodNursing Ethics 24 (5): 538-555. 2017.Background:Nurses’ collegiality is topical because patient care is complicated, requiring shared knowledge and working methods. Nurses’ collaboration has been supported by a number of different working models, but there has been less focus on ethics.Aim:This study aimed to develop nurses’ collegiality guidelines using the Delphi method.Method:Two online panels of Finnish experts, with 35 and 40 members, used the four-step Delphi method in December 2013 and January 2014. They reformulated the ite…Read more
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28On Love and Work: A Vow of Wholeness in WritingHypatia 17 (2): 133-144. 2002.Noting that academic writing typically falls in the category of work, this piece considers the relationship such writing might have with lowe. Animated by its observation that lowe's affinity with wholeness distinguishes it from work's tendency to divide a subject from herself, the essay playfully develops this contrast by telling a story of writing and wholeness. This story attempts to embody the contrasts of which it speaks, and in the process, to discover a counterpoint to the work of writing…Read more
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28This article discusses nurses’ and elderly patients’ perceptions of the realization of autonomy, privacy and informed consent in five European countries. Comparisons between the concepts and the countries indicated that both nurses and patients gave the highest ratings to privacy and the lowest to informed consent. There were differences between countries. According to the patient data, autonomy is best realized in Spain, privacy in the UK (Scotland), and informed consent in Finland. For the sta…Read more
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27Perceptions of Informed Consent in the Care of Elderly People in Five European CountriesNursing Ethics 10 (1): 48-57. 2003.The focus of this article is on elderly patients’ and nursing staff perceptions of informed consent in the care of elderly patients/residents in five European countries. The results suggest that patients and nurses differ in their views on how informed consent is implemented. Among elderly patients the highest frequency for securing informed consent was reported in Finland; the lowest was in Germany. In contrast, among nurses, the highest frequency was reported in the UK (Scotland) and the lowes…Read more
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