
John A. MachielsenFontys University of Applied Sciences · Academy for the Creative Economy
John A. Machielsen
MA Philosophy, Tilburg University
Working on John Dewey's ethics, creativity and design thinking as a way to operationalise procedural responsibility.
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Introduction
I am lecturer in ethics at the Academy for the Creative Economy at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
My research focuses on moral imagination, the ethics of design (thinking), and habits in creative practices. Recently, I have been working on reconstructing and intertwining methods to improve the education of twenty-first-century creative marketing professionals, allowing them to design for progress.
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August 2013 - August 2022
Education
September 2014 - October 2017
September 2003 - August 2007
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Publications (12)
I argue for taking John Dewey's pluralistic ethics as a starting point, or embedded practice, from and in which technological innovations are conceptualized, critiqued, designed, tested, and eventually implemented. Dewey reconstructs human reason into operational intelligence where all behavior becomes gradually imaginative. I take Dewey's view of...
While the aspect of time and the process-based character of his overall thought have been recognized in both Dewey’s educational philosophy and his naturalistic metaphysics, lesser attention has been paid to the strong future oriented component in his mature ethics, specifically in his theory of moral imagination. Deweyan moral imagination, I will...
Recently, the rediscovery of classical American pragmatism as a rich philosophical framework to be developed by both social and natural sciences to overcome false dichotomies and degenerative research programs of all sorts has attracted much attention. Paradigmatic renewal has been the order of the day, from sociology to cognitive sciences, and fro...
In this paper I argue for placing John Dewey’s pluralistic ethics as a starting point, or embedded practice, from and in which technological innovations are conceptualized, critiqued, designed, tested, and eventually implemented.
I elaborate Dewey’s pluralistic naturalistic ethics and illustrate why a Deweyan framework is capable of tackling curre...
Recently attempts were undertaken to unite the field of metaphor studies, trying to reconcile the conceptual/cognition and linguistic/discourse approaches to metaphor (Hampe 2017). The dynamic view of metaphor as a way to unify the field of metaphor studies is said to converge on findings and theoretical predictions found in cognition and discourse...
Recently several attempts were undertaken to unite the field of metaphor studies, trying to reconcile the conceptual/cognition and linguistic/discourse approaches to metaphor (Hampe, 2017a). The dynamic view of metaphor as a way to unify the field of metaphor studies is said to converge on findings and theoretical predictions found in cognition and...
Recently several attempts were undertaken to unite the field of metaphor studies, trying to reconcile the conceptual/cognition and linguistic/discourse approaches to metaphor (Hampe 2017). The dynamic view of metaphor espoused by amongst others Gibbs (2017) as a way to unify the field of metaphor studies is said to converge on findings and theoreti...
Recently several attempts were undertaken to unite the field of metaphor studies, trying to reconcile the conceptual/cognition and linguistic/discourse approaches to metaphor (Hampe 2017). The dynamic view of metaphor espoused by amongst others Gibbs (2017; see also Hampe 2017) as a way to unify the field of metaphor studies is said to converge on...
I defined my subject: the use of metaphor to persuade and influence in matters of morality.
I approach the subject from a pragmatist naturalist framework using empirical results from cognitive neuroscience, linguistics and psychology to show how John Dewey's notion of moral imagination/deliberation can be biologically realised. I argue that in this...
I aim to elucidate the function of metaphors, including metaphorical language, in moral deliberations. Such deliberation is conceived of as dramatic rehearsal of imaginative alternative scenarios in problematic situations. Using empirical research results from cognitive science, especially embodied simulation and simulation semantics, it is possibl...
Recent heeft de ‘ontdekking’ van intuïtieve oordelen in sociale psychologie en neurowetenschap ervoor gezorgd dat intuïtionistische modellen om moraliteit te verklaren weer in zwang zijn.
Ik beargumenteer echter dat wanneer we de functie van intuïties bekijken ze niet werken zoals geclaimd wordt. Met Dewey’s pragmatisme en belichaamde cognitie geef...
Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in theories of moral judgment. New discoveries in social psychology and neuroscience have revitalized the languishing debate between intuitionist and rationalist takes on our morality. The ‘discovery’ of intuitive moral judgments has revived interest in intuitionist accounts of moral judgment. Both...