Towards an Empirically Informed Account of Phronesis in Medicine

Towards an empirically grounded predictive coding account of action understanding.

Medicine as practical wisdom (phronesis)

Modern medicine faces fundamental challenges that various approaches to the philosophy of medicine have tried to address. One of these approaches is based on the ancient concept of phronesis. This paper investigates whether this concept can be used as a moral basis for the challenges facing modern medicine and, in particular, analyses phronesis as it is applied in the works of Pellegrino and Th...

Towards an Informed Citizenry

What is the significance of ICT's for voting decisions? This chapter assesses two uses of ICT's: (1) databases of the voting records of representatives, and (2) a decision support system for party choice. It examines the informationseeking behavior of (prospective and retrospective) voters appraising either parties or individual candidates. Empirically, the significance of both ICT's for the vo...

Organizationally Informed Method Composition: An Empirically Validated Methodology

It is increasingly evident that there is no one approach or methodology to software development that suits all types of software projects even at the organizational level. While modern software methodologies offer advice on the development phases of software, they do not usually offer any guidance in terms of how we can effectively select or tailor an approach that is a good fit from an organiz...

Towards an account of intuitiveness

Intuitive systems are usable systems. Design guidelines advocate intuitiveness and vendors claim it – but what does it mean for a user interface, interactive system or device to be intuitive? A review of the use of the term “intuitive” indicates that it has two distinct but overlapping meanings, namely intuitiveness based on familiarity and intuitiveness reflecting our embodiment (and frequentl...