Jürgen Habermas is regarded as a central bioconservative commentator in the debate on the ethics of human prenatal genetic manipulations. While his main work on this topic, The Future of Human Nature, has been widely examined in regard to his position on prenatal genetic enhancement, his arguments regarding prenatal genetic therapeutic interventions have for the most part been overlooked. In th...

The development of spatial data infrastructures is often the victim of an excessive focus on data and standards. In this paper we use the hermeneutics of Gadamer and Habermas to understand the problem of how spatial data infrastructures (SDI) can succeed, both in emergent and developed countries. We use Gadamer’s concept of phronesis to show how being an application-driven project is a key for ...

The communicative act in a learning organization is subject to a number of threats to its validity (Habermas 1981), in particular the comprehensibility, truth, trustworthiness, and appropriateness of a given message. Organizational Memories can be used to address these threats. Our focus is on email communications which suffers from the same threats identified by Habermas. The integration of em...

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 Ortega Esquembre, César 2021, Habermas ante el siglo XXI. La proyección de la teoría acción comunicativa, Madrid: Tecnos. ISBN 978-84-309-8159-5, 416 páginas

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 4, 2014 (“The West Bend Challenges: Open Access and Intellectual Freedom in the Twenty-First Century,” edited by Joyce M. Latham and Barbara M. Jones), pp. 750–758 © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract The West Bend Memorial Library controversy is an instructive example of how the framing assumptions—the ground—of public space have come under...

In Computer Science, conceptual modelling and formalization are the basis for developing automated systems, "intelligent" or not. It is often taken for granted that formalization is possible and desirable. In the Language/Action perspective, this assumption has been challenged. The Language/Action perspective promotes "communicative action", in the sense of Habermas, as the building block of in...

Relationship analysis aims at supporting the eliciting and documenting of potential relationship structures of an application domain by providing analysts with a systematic technique. Current relationship analysis methodologies, however, are mainly semantic based and do not take the pragmatic and social dimensions of relationships into account. We propose an approach that is guided by Habermas’...

There is a long history of opposition to allowing parents to use biotechnology in order to select the traits of their children. Jurgen Habermas’s book, The Future of Human Nature, is an important addition to this literature. Habermas, like C.S. Lewis and Paul Ramsey before him, is concerned that children’s futures are fixed by parental choices and that genetic selection or modification treats c...

In the realm of philosophy and other theoretical discourses, there are many different paths to the turn from the modern to the postmodern, representing a complex genealogy of diverse and often divergent trails through different disciplines and cultural terrains. One pathway moves through an irrationalist tradition from romanticism to existentialism to French postmodernism via the figures of Nie...