Abstract: This paper addresses the question of what organisms are and therefore what kinds of biological entities qualify as organisms. For some time now, the concept of organismality has been…
Reclaiming the System: Moral Responsibility, Divided Labour, and the Role of Organizations in Society
…knowledge, and organizational cultures and their relation to morality. She asks how individual agency and organizational structures would have to mesh to avoid common moral pitfalls. She develops the notion…
Markets and the needy: Organ sales or aid?
Abstract: As organ shortages have become more accute, support for a market in organs has steadily increased. Whilst many have argued for such a market, it is Gerald Dworkin who…
The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution
…bias does in the study of female orgasm. She also exposes a second pernicious form of bias that permeates the literature on female orgasms: a bias toward adaptationism. Here Lloyd’s…
Managing for Organizational Integrity
…scope, all strive to define companies’ guiding values, aspirations, and patterns of thought and conduct. When integrated into the day-to-day operations of an organization, such strategies can help prevent damaging…
The Language Situation in Africa Today
…various authorities, aid organisations and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) in their projects and campaigns. Of the latter, 41 languages are widely used as “lingua franca” for inter-ethnic, regional and/or international…
What is it like to be…?
…we say that another organism is conscious we mean that ‘there is something it is like to be that organism . . . something it is like for the organism’…
Evolution and the levels of selection
Publisher’s Note: Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the long-standing controversy in evolutionary…
Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility
Abstract: Individuals who would blow the whistle by making public disclosure of impropriety in their own organizations face choices of public v private good. These dilemmas, along with institutional and…
Diffusion Models and Fashion: A Reassessment
…Changes in the relationships between fashion organizations and their publics have affected what is diffused, how it is diffused, and to whom. Originally, fashion design was centered in Paris; designers…