Agent-relative reasons and normative force
Roland Breeur: Lies-Imposture-Stupidity Jonas ir Jokubas, Vilnius, 2019
status: published
The molecular vista: current perspectives on molecules and life in the twentieth century
This essay considers how scholarly approaches to the development of molecular biology have too often narrowed the historical aperture to genes, overlooking the ways in which other objects and processes contributed to the molecularization of life. From structural and dynamic studies of biomolecules to cellular membranes and organelles to metabolism ...
Avoiding the Basilisk: An Evaluation of Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and Hybrid Ethical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence
This thesis focuses on three specific approaches to implementing morality into artificial superintelligence (ASI) systems: top-down, bottom-up, and hybrid approaches. Each approach defines both the mechanical and moral functions an AI would attain if implemented. While research on machine ethics is already scarce, even less attention has been direc...
Don’t make a fetish of faults : a vindication of moral luck
A Problem for Easy Ontology
status: published
Between Self-Reliance and Responsibility: Rereading the Emersonian Sublime in an Age of Crisis
What if the Emersonian Sublime was still an invitation? I want to believe that the Emersonian Sublime is more than a plea for self-reliance. It is an uplifting call to reexplore our inner self and to develop a genuine sense of broader responsibility toward nonhumans and humans alike. In the light of the global ecological crisis and pandemic, the Em...
Perfect Subjects, Shields, and Retractions: Three Models of Impassibility
status: published
Towards an interdisciplinary framework about intelligence.
Published in Heliyon
In recent years, advances in science, technology, and the way in which we view our world have led to an increasingly broad use of the term "intelligence". As we learn more about biological systems, we find more and more examples of complex and precise adaptive behavior in animals and plants. Similarly, as we build more complex computational systems...
Humanism’s Necessary Integration with Capitalism: Further Remarks on Brunello Cucinelli’s Philosophy of Clothes
Published in Humanistic Management in Practice
Brunello Cucinelli is the founder of an eponymous line of high-end, luxury fashion apparel and accessories. As surprising as it sounds at first blush (and perhaps surprisingly incongruous), Cucinelli has a long-standing interest in and devotion to humanistic strains of thinking as they are found globally, but especially in the West, and more specif...
