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36Ethics in Actor Networks, or: What Latour Could Learn from Darwin and DeweyScience and Engineering Ethics 20 (1): 23-40. 2014.In contemporary Science, Technology and Society studies, Bruno Latour’s Actor Network Theory is often used to study how social change arises from interaction between people and technologies. Though Latour’s approach is rich in the sense of enabling scholars to appreciate the complexity of many relevant technological, environmental, and social factors in their studies, the approach is poor from an ethical point of view: the doings of things and people are couched in one and the same behaviorist v…Read more
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35Imagination in ActionMetaphilosophy 47 (3): 385-405. 2016.Recent interest in phenomena of simulation, pretense, and play has given rise to new philosophical debates on the basic structure of human action and action planning. Some philosophers sought to transform Hume's desire-belief-action model by sophisticating its basic structure. For example, they introduced “hypothetical world boxes” or imaginary “i-desires” and “i-beliefs” into the standard model, in order to account for the representational and motivational structures of imaginary scripts. Other…Read more
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25Imagining Social Transformations: Territory Making and the Project of Radical PragmatismContemporary Pragmatism 13 (4): 361-381. 2016.Saskia Sassen today and Jane Adams more than 100 years ago are both social scientists and public philosophers of reconstruction. Both offer defining contributions to a philosophical tradition that will be identified here as “radical pragmatism”. Sassen’s theoretical stance “before method” serves as a key to understand Addams’s locally embedded urban activist projects as a form of social scientific inquiry. Sassen introduces the concept of “territory making” as a spark of hope against rampant and…Read more
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24Rationality as Situated Inquiry: A Pragmatist Perspective on Policy and Planning ProcessesPhilosophy of Management 6 (1): 35-61. 2007.Rationality bashing has become a popular sport. Critiques have quite rightly challenged models of rational planning that follow a linear progression from predefined ends to achieved goals. There have been several alternative theoretical and empirical developments including incrementalist projects, network theories, critical communication approaches, and heuristic models. Notwithstanding critiques of linear models of policy-making and planning, rationality as a general idea remains an important r…Read more
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20Pragmatist Perspectives on Science and Technology and Contemporary Dewey StudiesPragmatism Today 5 (9): 5-10. 2016.
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20Provinces of Imaginative Intelligence: A TaxonomyTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 56 (4): 600-619. 2020.ARRAY
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10Re-Imagining Business Agency through Multi-Agent Cross-Sector Coalitions: Integrating CSR FrameworksPhilosophy of Management 21 (1): 87-103. 2021.This theoretical paper takes an agency-theoretic approach to questions of corporate social responsibility (CSR). A comparison of various extant frameworks focusses on how CSR agency emerges in complex multi-agent and multi-sector stakeholder networks. The discussion considers the respective capabilities and relevance of these frameworks – culminating in an integrative CSR practice model. A short literature review of the evolution of CSR since the 1950’s provides the backdrop for understanding mu…Read more
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10presenting my response to j. vink’s “Designing for Plurality in Democracy by building reflexivity”, I feel the urge to divert from the conventional format of a commentary. In place of analyzing and recontextualizing her ideas or linking them with further relevant literature, I would like to use this opportunity to embark on a self-reflective inquiry into effects that Dr Vink’s impulses had on my own thoughts and interactions. I would like to interpret her paper as one step in a design process th…Read more
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Dewey's Science: A Transactive Model of Research ProcessesIn Larry A. Hickman (ed.), The continuing relevance of John Dewey: reflections on aesthetics, morality, science, and society, Rodopi. pp. 205--224. 2011.
Philipp Dorstewitz
American University of Ras Al Khaimah
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American University of Ras Al KhaimahAssociate Professor
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