The ongoing development of information technology creates new and immensely complex environments. Our lifeworld is drastically influenced by these developments. The way information technology is intertwined in our daily life raises new issues concerning the possibility of understanding these new configurations. This paper is about the ways in which IS research can contribute to a deeper underst...

In “Milk, Honey, and the Good Life on Moral Twin Earth”, David Copp explores some ways in which a defender of synthetic moral naturalism might attempt to get around our Moral Twin Earth argument.1 Copp nicely brings out the force of our argument, not only through his exposition of it, but through his attempt to defeat it, since his efforts, we think, only help to make manifest the deep difficul...

When discussing the effects of resource extraction in rural communities, academics commonly focus on specific and concrete impacts that fall nicely into the categories of environmental, economic, and social e for example, effects on water quality, jobs, and roads. A less common way of conceptualising effects of extractive industries, but more akin to the way in which rural residents discuss and...

This paper explores a novel philosophy of ethical care in the face of burgeoning biomedical technologies. I respond to a serious challenge facing traditional bioethics with its roots in analytic philosophy. The hallmarks of these traditional approaches are reason and autonomy, founded on a belief in the liberal humanist subject. In recent years, however, there have been mounting challenges to t...

This paper addresses the treatment of the good life in the Zhuangzi (ca. 350-300 BCE), one of the central texts of the Daoist school of thought. After a brief introduction to previous work on the Zhuangzian good life, the essay proceeds into a discussion of the opening lines of the text, wherein the “Kun fish and Peng bird” metaphor is introduced. Reading this image as a metaphorical representa...

Today, many people spend a lot of time online. Their social interactions captured in online social networks are an important part of the overall personal social profile, in addition to interactions taking place offline. This paper investigates whether relations captured by online social networks can be used as a proxy for the relations in offline social networks, such as networks of human face-...

Metrics for assessing adoption of good development practices are a useful way to ensure that software is sustainable, reusable and functional. Sustainability means that the software used today will be available - and continue to be improved and supported - in the future. We report here an initial set of metrics that measure good practices in software development. This initiative differs from pr...

In his paper, Should doctors intentionally do less than the best,' Julian Savulescu makes a number of controversial and interesting claims. They have to do with the nature of rationality, the obligations of doctors and the significance of genetic relatedness. I will concentrate on rationality and the obligations of doctors. What Savulescu has to say about the significance ofgenetic relatedness ...

BACKGROUND Research on cancer rehabilitation targeting young adult cancer survivors (YACS) is limited, and little is known about the positive health outcomes of rehabilitation programs tailored specifically for this vulnerable group. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate whether a complex rehabilitation program improved the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and physical capa...