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Putting Democratic Theory and Principles of Justice in the Right Place: Ethical Pluralism in Collaborative and Participatory Governance

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Participatory and collaborative governance (P&CG) is widely celebrated as an institutional vehicle for democratizing public decision‐making by inviting affected stakeholders into inclusive and deliberative policy processes. This essay argues that underlying appeals to democratic legitimacy in P&CG are tacit commitments to specific (and often ...
Alexander L. Q. Chen‐Florea
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Democratic Administration

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic, many countries have been using artificial intelligence (AI) to replace civil service personnel. We argue that this practice undermines core democratic values. Using the public values framework, we identify four clusters of values that are threatened when bureaucratic discretion is transferred to ...
L. Jason Anastasopoulos
wiley   +1 more source

Virtuous Organizations in the Age of AI: Relational Goods and Human Flourishing

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 3295-3309, October 2026.
ABSTRACT The integration of AI‐based systems in everyday work has given rise to augmented organizations, transforming traditional work paradigms and prompting new research questions concerning augmented work processes and their related ethical issues. Drawing upon the practice‐institution framework proposed by Alasdair MacIntyre, integrated with Donati'
Francesco Vincenzo Giarmoleo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What if Adam Smith Debated an AI Economist: A Thought Experiment on Markets, Ethics, and the Invisible Hand

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 3433-3447, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Can AI‐driven capitalism sustain the moral preconditions of market order? We stage a dialogue between Adam Smith and a steel‐manned “EconAI” to test four Moral‐Market‐Fitness criteria: trustworthiness, fairness, non‐domination, and contestability, across 11 dilemmas.
Alexandra‐Codruța Bîzoi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disciplining the “Queen of the World”? Responsible Innovation as a Way of Life

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 3713-3724, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper offers a critical reflection on the concept of responsible innovation as defined during the last decades. We argue that the emphasis on innovation as a process risks neglecting the very goals of innovation, namely societal desirability and acceptability. Thus, we suggest reconsidering the role of imagination, the “Queen of the world”
Xavier Pavie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From the Practical to the Sapient: Curriculum Judgment Beyond Schwab

open access: yesEducational Theory, Volume 76, Issue 5, Page 673-690, October 2026.
Abstract Joseph Schwab's “practical turn” remains a defining moment in curriculum theory. His practical papers of the late 1960s and early 1970s sought to restore professional judgment to a field dominated by technical rationality and policy prescription.
Sandra Leaton Gray, David Scott
wiley   +1 more source

Nicomachean Ethics VI.9: good deliberation and phronesis [Ética a Nicômaco VI.9: boa deliberação e phronesis]

open access: yesPrincípios, 2017
In this paper, I put under scrutiny the arguments put forward by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics (NE) VI.9. The paper has two main parts. In the first, I examine the NE VI.9’s first part where Aristotle develops the concept of good deliberation, offering
Angelo Antonio Pires de Oliveira
doaj   +1 more source

Phronetic Ethics in Social Robotics: A New Approach to Building Ethical Robots

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2020
Social robotics are autonomous robots or Artificial Moral Agents (AMA), that will interact respect and embody human ethical values. However, the conceptual and practical problems of building such systems have not yet been resolved, playing a role of ...
Polak Paweł, Krzanowski Roman
doaj   +1 more source

The Ethics of University Futures: Leadership in Higher Education

open access: yesEducational Theory, Volume 76, Issue 5, Page 578-596, October 2026.
Abstract Universities today face accelerating instability, shaped by audit cultures, performance metrics, and constant pressures for adaptation. Leadership is often framed in managerial terms of strategic control and technical problem‐solving, yet such models risk obscuring the ethical responsibility that sustains institutional life.
Linnéa K. Jermstad
wiley   +1 more source

There is techne and phronesis in movement: A beautiful combination for health and well-being!

open access: yesTurkish Journal of Kinesiology
Drawing on Aristotle’s concepts of techne (art or craft) and phronesis (practical wisdom), the purpose of this concept-based article was to showcase that there is techne and phronesis in movement, including their interrelations for the long-lasting love ...
Maria Kosma
doaj   +1 more source

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