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The algorithmic disruption of workplace solidarity: Phenomenology and the future of work question (2021)
Journal Article
Meacham, D., & Tava, F. (2021). The algorithmic disruption of workplace solidarity: Phenomenology and the future of work question. Philosophy Today, 65(3), 571-598. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2021519408

This paper examines, both historically and conceptually the development and technological mediation of the concept of solidarity. We argue for both an emphasis on the workplace as the locus of solidarity relations and for a phenomenological approach... Read More about The algorithmic disruption of workplace solidarity: Phenomenology and the future of work question.

Epoché and institution: The fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenology (2020)
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Meacham, D., & Tava, F. (2021). Epoché and institution: The fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenology. Studies in East European Thought, 73, 309–326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-020-09398-8

This article examines the relation between two key, but seemingly opposed concepts in Jan Patočka’s thought: epoché and the concrete institutional polis. In doing so it attempts to elucidate the inextricable relation between phenomenology and politic... Read More about Epoché and institution: The fundamental tension in Jan Patočka’s phenomenology.

BrisSynBio Art-Science Dossier (2020)
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Fannin, M., Connor, K., Roden, D., & Meacham, D. (2020). BrisSynBio Art-Science Dossier. NanoEthics, 14(1), 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-020-00368-2

© 2020, The Author(s). Finding avenues for collaboration and engagement between the arts and the sciences (natural and social) was a central theme of investigation for the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Public Engagement programme at B... Read More about BrisSynBio Art-Science Dossier.

‘Synthetic blood’: Entangling politics and biology (2019)
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Kent, J., & Meacham, D. (2019). ‘Synthetic blood’: Entangling politics and biology. Body and Society, 25(2), 28-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X18822076

It is increasingly suggested that shortages in the supply chain for human blood could be met by the development of techniques to manufacture human blood ex vivo. These techniques fall broadly under the umbrella of Synthetic Biology. We examine the bi... Read More about ‘Synthetic blood’: Entangling politics and biology.

The Over-Extended Mind? Pink Noise and the Ethics of Interaction-Dominant Systems (2018)
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Meacham, D., & Prado Casanova, M. (2018). The Over-Extended Mind? Pink Noise and the Ethics of Interaction-Dominant Systems. NanoEthics, 12(3), 269-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-018-0325-x

© 2018, The Author(s). There is a growing recognition within cognitive enhancement and neuroethics debates of the need for greater emphasis on cognitive artefacts. This paper aims to contribute to this broadening and expansion of the cognitive-enhanc... Read More about The Over-Extended Mind? Pink Noise and the Ethics of Interaction-Dominant Systems.

How low can you go? Bioenactivism, cognitive biology and Umwelt ontology (2016)
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Meacham, D. (2016). How low can you go? Bioenactivism, cognitive biology and Umwelt ontology. Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 9(31), 73-95

The viability of enactivist philosophy in providing descriptions of biological phenomena (bioenactivism) across the phylogenetic spectrum relies in large part on the scalability of its central concepts, i.e. whether they remain operative at varying l... Read More about How low can you go? Bioenactivism, cognitive biology and Umwelt ontology.

European institutions? (2016)
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Meacham, D., & Meacham, D. E. (2016). European institutions?. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 47(3), 226-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2016.1180853

© 2016 The British Society for Phenomenology. The aim of this article is to sketch a phenomenological theory of political institutions and to apply it to some objections and questions raised by Pierre Manent about the project of the European Union an... Read More about European institutions?.

The subject of enhancement: Augmented capacities, extended cognition and delicate ecologies of the mind (2015)
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Meacham, D. E. (2015). The subject of enhancement: Augmented capacities, extended cognition and delicate ecologies of the mind. New Bioethics, 21(1), 5-19

This paper argues for an inflationary and capacity-relative understanding of human enhancement technology. In doing so it echoes the approach followed by Buchanan (2011a, 2011b). Particular emphasis is placed on the point that capacities themselves a... Read More about The subject of enhancement: Augmented capacities, extended cognition and delicate ecologies of the mind.

Sense and life: Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of nature and evolutionary biology (2015)
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Meacham, D. E. (2015). Sense and life: Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of nature and evolutionary biology

The article addresses Merleau-Ponty's later philosophy of nature in relation to two of its central operating concepts, behaviour and latency. It then examines some contemporary arguments for an extended evolutionary synthesis from the perspective of... Read More about Sense and life: Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of nature and evolutionary biology.

Il y a du soin dans l’air: Robots soignants et environnements de soin (2015)
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Meacham, D. E., & Studley, M. (2015). Il y a du soin dans l’air: Robots soignants et environnements de soin. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.058.0173

In this article we examine the possible challenges facing the use of the concept of « care » or « taking care », when the carer is an autonomous robot, what we call an « artificial medical care agent ». In other words, we ask if robots can care. Agai... Read More about Il y a du soin dans l’air: Robots soignants et environnements de soin.

Empathy and alteration: The ethical relevance of a phenomenological species concept (2014)
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Meacham, D. E. (2014). Empathy and alteration: The ethical relevance of a phenomenological species concept. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 39(5), 543-564. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhu030

© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Inc. All rights reserved. The debate over the ethics of radically, technologically altering the capacities and traditional form of the human... Read More about Empathy and alteration: The ethical relevance of a phenomenological species concept.

Should students take smart drugs (2013)
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Meacham, D. E. (2013). Should students take smart drugs. Philosopher's Magazine, 62(3), 85-91

Darian Meacham picks through the facts and argues that an investigation of human flourishing must play a role in the debate over the ethics of using 'smart drugs'.

What goes without saying: Husserl's concept of style (2013)
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Meacham, D., & Meacham, D. E. (2013). What goes without saying: Husserl's concept of style. Research in Phenomenology, 43(1), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341241

The idea of "style" emerges at several important points throughout Husserl's oeuvre: in the second part of the Crisis of the European Sciences, the lectures on intersubjectivity published in Husserliana XV, and in the analyses of transcendental chara... Read More about What goes without saying: Husserl's concept of style.

Biology, the empathic science (2013)
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Meacham, D. E. (2013). Biology, the empathic science. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 44(1), 10-15