Todd Mei
Biographic Data
| ID | 2157880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd Mei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd |
| FAMILY NAME | Mei |
| SIGNATURE | MEI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2497-7732 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Work and the Meaning of Being
Western philosophical accounts of work tend to focus on necessity as its chief defining attribute. The relation of work to the question of the meaning of being is therefore circumscribed by the ways in which work can be said to fulfill necessary ends. There are two consequences of this view which delineate the philosophy of work. Work is either merely necessary for existence in order for us to be able to engage in higher activities—a view attribu…
The poetics of meaningful work
Meaningful work refers to the idea that human work is an integral part of the way we think of our lives as going well. The concept is prevalent in sociology and business studies. In philosophy, its discussion tends to revolve around matters of justice and whether the State should take steps to eradicate meaningless work. However, despite the breadth of the recent, general literature, there is little to no discussion about how it is in fact the ca…
Heidegger in the machine
Heidegger & the Measure of Truth
A view shared by many continental philosophers is the obsolescence of the traditional epistemological representation of the relation between the interior, mental life of the human subject, and the external world of objects. Whilst continental philosophy is notorious for developing obscure philosophical terminology to overcome this representation, it should not be forgotten that much of this vocabulary is aimed at avoiding what are regarded as tra…
Are Reasons Enough? Sen and Ricoeur on the Idea of Impartiality
Amartya Sen argues that a conception of impartiality built upon “trans-positional objectivity” provides a potential remedy to conflicts of distributive justice by securing the most “reasonable reasons” in a debate. This article undertakes a critical analysis of Sen’s theory by contrasting it with Paul Ricoeur’s claim that impartiality is a normative concept and therefore that the demand faced within the arena of competing distributive claims is n…
An Economic Turn
The philosophy of economics has been largely guided by analytic philosophy. Even Marx has been appropriated without much scandal by economists who separate his scientific contributions from his politics. In this article, I place philosophical hermeneutics (i.e., Heidegger and Ricoeur) in dialogue with the conventional understanding of land as a factor of production. The history of political economy misunderstands land as an entity classifiable as…
Debating God’s Economy
Economy of the Gift
The theological revivification of the concept of gift and gift exchange in the last two decades has provoked questions on how notions of divine superabundance can be translated into economics. In this article, I relate the thinking of Paul Ricoeur, John Milbank, Philip Goodchild and Albino Barrera to a specific economic reform that entails seeing land enclosure as inimical to the stability and fairness of an economy. I refer to the political econ…
The Preeminence of Use
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Heidegger and Teilhard De Chardin
The intent of this essay is to place the thinking of Martin Heidegger and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in dialogue with one another in order to thresh out the latent aspects of each thinker's work that are often seen to be problematic. I argue that Teilhard's discussion of unity that differentiates illuminates a positive teleology in Heidegger's notion of Appropriation, while Heidegger's conception of retrieval/repetition discloses the significance…
Form and Figure
The Preeminence of Use
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Form and Figure
Form and Figure
Heidegger and Teilhard De Chardin
The intent of this essay is to place the thinking of Martin Heidegger and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in dialogue with one another in order to thresh out the latent aspects of each thinker's work that are often seen to be problematic. I argue that Teilhard's discussion of unity that differentiates illuminates a positive teleology in Heidegger's notion of Appropriation, while Heidegger's conception of retrieval/repetition discloses the significance…
Economy of the Gift
The theological revivification of the concept of gift and gift exchange in the last two decades has provoked questions on how notions of divine superabundance can be translated into economics. In this article, I relate the thinking of Paul Ricoeur, John Milbank, Philip Goodchild and Albino Barrera to a specific economic reform that entails seeing land enclosure as inimical to the stability and fairness of an economy. I refer to the political econ…
The Preeminence of Use
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
An Economic Turn
The philosophy of economics has been largely guided by analytic philosophy. Even Marx has been appropriated without much scandal by economists who separate his scientific contributions from his politics. In this article, I place philosophical hermeneutics (i.e., Heidegger and Ricoeur) in dialogue with the conventional understanding of land as a factor of production. The history of political economy misunderstands land as an entity classifiable as…
Debating God’s Economy
Heidegger & the Measure of Truth
A view shared by many continental philosophers is the obsolescence of the traditional epistemological representation of the relation between the interior, mental life of the human subject, and the external world of objects. Whilst continental philosophy is notorious for developing obscure philosophical terminology to overcome this representation, it should not be forgotten that much of this vocabulary is aimed at avoiding what are regarded as tra…
Are Reasons Enough? Sen and Ricoeur on the Idea of Impartiality
Amartya Sen argues that a conception of impartiality built upon “trans-positional objectivity” provides a potential remedy to conflicts of distributive justice by securing the most “reasonable reasons” in a debate. This article undertakes a critical analysis of Sen’s theory by contrasting it with Paul Ricoeur’s claim that impartiality is a normative concept and therefore that the demand faced within the arena of competing distributive claims is n…
Heidegger in the machine
Work and the Meaning of Being
Western philosophical accounts of work tend to focus on necessity as its chief defining attribute. The relation of work to the question of the meaning of being is therefore circumscribed by the ways in which work can be said to fulfill necessary ends. There are two consequences of this view which delineate the philosophy of work. Work is either merely necessary for existence in order for us to be able to engage in higher activities—a view attribu…
The poetics of meaningful work
Meaningful work refers to the idea that human work is an integral part of the way we think of our lives as going well. The concept is prevalent in sociology and business studies. In philosophy, its discussion tends to revolve around matters of justice and whether the State should take steps to eradicate meaningless work. However, despite the breadth of the recent, general literature, there is little to no discussion about how it is in fact the ca…
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Economic Justice (3 works)