Matthew Dennis

Datos Biográficos

ID3589160
NOMBREMatthew Dennis
NOMBRESMatthew
APELLIDODennis
FIRMADENNIS M
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Manchester
ORCID0000-0001-8569-6024
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS43
TOTAL DE CITAS12
TOTAL COMO AUTOR42
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1989
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H2

  • On the Uses and Abuses of Celebrity Epistemic Power

    Open AccessAlex Archer, Mark Alfano et al.ARTICLESocial Epistemology2024

    The testimonies of celebrities affect the lives of their many followers who pay attention to what they say. This gives celebrities a high degree of epistemic power, which has come under scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper investigates the duties that arise from this power. We argue that celebrities have a negative duty of testimonial justice not to undermine trust in authoritative sources by spreading misinformation or directing att…

  • Living Well Together Online

    Open AccessMatthew Dennis, Matthew J Dennis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Philosophy2023

    The impact of social media technologies (SMTs) on digital wellbeing has become an increasingly important puzzle for ethicists of technology. In this article, we explain why individualised theories of digital wellbeing (DWB) can only solve part of this puzzle. While an individualised conception of DWB is useful for understanding online self‐regulation, we contend that we must seek greater understanding of how SMTs connect us. To build an account o…

  • Exemplars and expertise

    Open AccessAlex Archer, Alfred Archer et al.ARTICLEInquiry2023

    According to a popular line of thought, moral exemplars have a key role to play in moral development and moral education and by paying attention to moral exemplars we can learn about what morality requires of us. However, when we pay attention to what many moral exemplars say about their actions, it seems that our moral obligations are much more demanding than we typically think they are. Some philosophers have argued that this exemplar testimony…

  • Integrating knowledge on green infrastructure, health and well-being in ageing populations

    Open AccessMatthew Dennis, Adam Barker et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2023Referencias: 58

    Ageing and urbanisation pose significant challenges for public health and urban planning. Ageing populations are at particular risk from hazards arising from urbanisation processes, some of which are in turn exacerbated by climate change. One approach for mitigating the negative effects of urbanisation on ageing populations is the leveraging of the beneficial effects of urban green infrastructure as a public health intervention in the planning pr…

  • Nietzsche's Untimely Prophecy

    Open AccessMatthew Dennis, Matthew J DennisARTICLEEducational Theory2023

    Digital technologies are changing our understanding of ethical emulation. In this article, Matthew Dennis proposes that some social media technologies have given rise to a strikingly new set of ethical ideals, often concerned with the ideal of self-cultivation. While there is relatively little philosophical discussion of these kinds of ideals, Dennis suggests that scrutiny of Friedrich Nietzsche's ethical philosophy offers a guiding account of wh…

  • Ethics in the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessGeorgy Ishmaev, Matthew Dennis et al.ARTICLEEthics and Information Technology2021

    This editorial essay was originally drafted in the summer of 2020 and wrapped up in autumn of 2020. Nevertheless, due to the publication backlogs with the special issue of "Ethics of Information Technology in the COVID-19 Crisis", this editorial is coming to publication in the Spring 2021. Looking back, we can consider it as a snapshot in time, when certain technological solutions were at the various points in their 'hype' and development cycles.…

  • Digital well-being under pandemic conditions

    Open AccessMatthew Dennis, Matthew J DennisARTICLEEthics and Information Technology2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has catalysed what may soon become a permanent digital transition in the domains of work, education, medicine, and leisure. This transition has also precipitated a spike in concern regarding our digital well-being. Prominent lobbying groups, such as the Center for Humane Technology (CHT), have responded to this concern. In April 2020, the CHT has offered a set of ‘Digital Well-Being Guidelines during the COVID-19 Pandemic.’ …

  • Towards a Theory of Digital Well-Being

    Open AccessMatthew Dennis, Matthew J DennisARTICLEScience and Engineering Ethics2021

    Global lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic have offered many people first-hand experience of how their daily online activities threaten their digital well-being. This article begins by critically evaluating the current approaches to digital well-being offered by ethicists of technology, NGOs, and social media corporations. My aim is to explain why digital well-being needs to be reimagined within a new conceptual paradigm. After this, I lay the…

  • Unique ethical challenges for the 21st century

    Matthew Dennis, Matthew J Dennis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Moral Education2021

    Living well in the 21st century will present human beings with a unique set of demands and ethical challenges, many of which will require a rapid response to developments in the online space. Online activities increasingly permeate our practical lives. Although there is every indication that this activity will intensify, even experts on digital technology recognise that the precise effects of future emergent technology will be uncertain and remai…

  • Impact of a low-cost urban green space intervention on wellbeing behaviours in older adults

    Open AccessJames S Benton, Simon Cotterill et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2021

    This study assessed the impact of low-cost physical changes to four urban amenity green spaces on older adults’ wellbeing behaviours (people taking notice of the environment, physical activity levels, social interactions), relative to eight matched comparison sites in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Systematic observations were conducted at baseline, six- and twelve months, with a nested qualitative study. There was no evidence that the inter…

  • Social robots and digital well-being

    Open AccessMatthew Dennis, Matthew J DennisARTICLEMind & Society2021Referencias: 6

    Value-sensitive design theorists propose that a range of values that should inform how future social robots are engineered. This article explores a new value: digital well-being, and proposes that the next generation of social robots should be designed to facilitate this value in those who use or come into contact with these machines. To do this, I explore how the morphology of social robots is closely connected to digital well-being. I argue tha…

  • A conceptual model of the social–ecological system of nature-based solutions in urban environments

    Open AccessKonstantinos Tzoulas, Juanjo Galan et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2021Citada por: 6Referencias: 31

    This article provides a perspective on nature-based solutions. First, the argument is developed that nature-based solutions integrate social and ecological systems. Then, theoretical considerations relating to relational values, multifunctionality, transdisciplinarity, and polycentric governance are briefly outlined. Finally, a conceptual model of the social–ecological system of nature-based solutions is synthesised and presented. This conceptual…

  • Till Death Do Us Part

    Open AccessMatthew Dennis, Matthew J DennisARTICLEJournal of American History2021

    Till Death Do Us Part began as conference papers at the 2014 meeting of the Organization of American Historians. It is hard to imagine a more satisfying fruit blossoming from the seeds sown there. Eight informative, accessible, and well-contextualized case studies examine a range of American religious, racial, and ethnic groups, in the process advancing the volume's larger theme—how U.S. death and burial practices reflect, confound, and reinforce…

  • “Ours from the top to the very bottom”

    Open AccessMatthew Dennis, Matthew J DennisARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…2020

    This essay focuses on the Senecas of western New York and their transformation, resilience, and resistance in the early nineteenth century. Rooted in a hybrid economy and environmental practice, among the postcolonial threats they faced in the context of white territorial expansion, republican and capitalist ideology, was an emerging new instrumental view of property, a radically changing economy, and embryonic ideas about “conservation.” Colonia…

  • Relationships between health outcomes in older populations and urban green infrastructure size, quality and proximity

    Open AccessMatthew Dennis, Penny A Cook et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The influence of urban GI on population health is mediated by green-space form, quantity, accessibility, and vegetation health. People in urban neighbourhoods that are characterised by lower income and older age populations are disproportionately healthy if their neighbourhoods contain accessible, good quality public green-space. This has implications for strategies to decrease health inequalities and inform international initiatives, such as the…

  • Technologies of self-cultivation. How to improve Stoic self-care apps

    Matthew Dennis, Matthew J DennisARTICLEHuman Affairs2020Referencias: 6

    Self-care apps are booming. Early iterations of this technology focused on tracking health and fitness routines, but recently some developers have turned their attention to the cultivation of character, basing their conceptual resources on the Hellenistic tradition (Stoic MeditationsTM, StoaTM, Stoic Mental Health TrackerTM). Those familiar with the final writings of Michel Foucault will notice an intriguing coincidence between the development of…

  • Ethics and Self-Cultivation

    Luke Brunning, Matthew Dennis et al.BOOKEthics and Self-Cultivation2018

  • Evaluating the impact of improvements in urban green space on older adults’ physical activity and wellbeing

    Open AccessJames S Benton, Jamie Anderson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Retrospectively registered with study ID NCT03575923 . Date of registration: 3 July 2018

  • Nietzschean Self-Cultivation

    Open AccessMatthew Dennis, Matthew J DennisARTICLEThe Journal of Value Inquiry2018

    Interpretations of Nietzsche as a virtue theorist have proliferated in recent years as commentators have sought to read him as a modern eudaimonistic philosopher while also attempting to show what makes his contribution to this tradition valuable and distinctive.1While some commentators still contend that interpreting Nietzsche as a eudaimonist is antithetical to his overtly-stated philosophical aims,2 over the last decade there has been a upsurg…

  • Urban Social-ecological Innovation

    Open AccessMatthew Dennis, Philip JamesARTICLEEcological Economics2018Citada por: 2Referencias: 17

  • The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche

    Matthew Dennis, Matthew J Dennis et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Nietzsche Studies2016

    Having established her pluralistic account as an influential position within contemporary virtue ethics, in this work Christine Swanton offers a virtue-ethical reading of David Hume and Friedrich Nietzsche with the aim of showing how they can further the development of virtue ethics beyond the Aristotelian and ancient eudaemonist traditions (xi). Readers of Swanton's other major work, Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View (Oxford: Oxford University P…

  • Pioneers! O Pioneers! Pioneers and the Cultural Work of American Festivity

    Matthew Dennis, Matthew J DennisARTICLERevue française d’études…2016Referencias: 2

  • Natives and Pioneers

    Matthew Dennis, Matthew J Dennis et al.ARTICLEOregon Historical Quarterly2014

    Organizers of the Oregon Historical Society's November 2013 symposium, “Death and the Settling and Unsettling of Oregon,” sought to assess the role of death Oregon's history. “Death is a serious subject,” co-editor Matthew Dennis explains, and “for Native Oregonians, as well as for newcomers, the American settlement of Oregon proved profoundly unsettling.” Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the symposium and articles in this spec…

  • Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity

    Matthew Dennis, Matthew J DennisARTICLEThe Journal of Nietzsche Studies2013Citada por: 1

  • Seneca Possessed

    Matthew DennisBOOKSeneca Possessed2010