The world of wage labour seems to have become a soulless machine, an engine of social and environmental destruction. Employees seem to be nothing but ‘cogs’ in this system—but is…
Organisms as Persisters
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…
The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution
Abstract: Why women evolved to have orgasms – when most of their primate relatives don’t – is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives…
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…
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…
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies: Parts I and II
Publisher’s Note: Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies is one of the most important and neglected works advocating the establishment of women’s academies. Its reception was so controversial that…
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’…
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…
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…
The State of Leadership Ethics and the Work that Lies Before Us
…normative ideas from the descriptive and then put the two back together again. Like most philosophical endeavors, digging for the questions is the most difficult part. Once the questions are…