VOLUME 16 • 2017
THINKING IN ACTION: AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD KEARNEY
ABSTRACT. Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy, Boston College (1999–present). He has served as a visiting professor at University of Paris, Sorbonne, University of Nice–Sophia Antipodis, University College Dublin, and The Catholic University of Australia. He is author of ..
THE ALIENATED LANGUAGE OF THE AFFECTIVE COMMODITY IN HOUELLEBECQ’S NOVELS
ABSTRACT. The aim of this article is to gain a deeper grasp of Houellebecq’s novelistic style, his posthumanist vision, and his reflections regarding the irreconcilability of family life with a society of cold-blooded egoism. The outcomes of the current research coincide with prior investigations on..
PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SATISFACTION IN ORGANIZATIONS
ABSTRACT. The objective of this paper is to emphasize the direct consequence of intrinsic motivation on performance and the link between performance appraisal satisfaction and individuals’ psychological reactions. My paper contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the connection between..
MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY
ABSTRACT. In this paper I wish to present and defend my philosophy or rather the philosophy that I consider sound. The ethics I will be defending is concerned with guiding human living to be successful, to excel as human living in the particular instance of the individual agent. Some minimal general..
AGAINST EXTRINSIC DISPOSITIONS
ABSTRACT. McKitrick (2003) proposes that an object has a disposition if and only if there are a manifestation, the circumstances of the manifestation, a counterfactual true of the object, and an overtly dispositional locution referring to the disposition. A disposition is extrinsic if and only if an..
BEYOND EARTH’S GLOBALIZATION: SOCIOLOGY OF OUTER SPACE?
ABSTRACT. This paper raises the possibility of a sociology of outer space that examines the spatial turn and the turn to space in recent sociology. Rapid developments in space technology, travel and colonization now raise a set of questions about the extension of the spatial turn in sociology to out..
“HEAD-TRANSPLANTING” AND “MIND-UPLOADING:” PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS AND POTENTIAL SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF TWO MEDICO-SCIENTIFIC UTOPIAS
ABSTRACT. This article discusses the philosophical implications and potential social consequences of two experimental – and at the present moment still widely speculative – topics at the intersection between scientific and medical advances, the human body, the human mind, and the globalized health c..
MICHEL SERRES’S ENCYCLOPEDIC PHILOSOPHICAL VISION OF AN EVER-CHANGING HUMAN LANDSCAPE
ABSTRACT. This review paper is a synopsis of the major contributions of my latest monograph dedicated to Michel Serres’s encyclopedic philosophy. Although my book fills a significant research gap as the first comprehensive exploration of Serres’s thought, there is much more work to be done given tha..