Matthew J Dennis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 9293003 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthew J Dennis |
| PRENOMES | Matthew J |
| SOBRENOME | Dennis |
| ASSINATURA | DENNIS M J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4212-6862 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Beyond the attention economy, towards an ecology of attending. A manifesto
We endorse policymakers’ efforts to address the negative consequences of the attention economy’s technology but add that these approaches are often limited in their criticism of the systemic context of human attention. Starting from Buddhist philosophy, we advocate a broader approach: an ‘ecology of attending’ that centers on conceptualizing, designing, and using attention (1) in an embedded way and (2) focused on the alleviating of suffering. Wi…
Examining the assumptions of AI hiring assessments and their impact on job seekers’ autonomy over self-representation
In this paper, we examine the epistemological and ontological assumptions algorithmic hiring assessments make about job seekers’ attributes (e.g., competencies, skills, abilities) and the ethical implications of these assumptions. Given that both traditional psychometric hiring assessments and algorithmic assessments share a common set of underlying assumptions from the psychometric paradigm, we turn to literature that has examined the merits and…
On the Uses and Abuses of Celebrity Epistemic Power
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
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
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…
Nietzsche's Untimely Prophecy
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…
Values for a Post-Pandemic Future
This open access book explores how ethically designed technologies have a unique role to play in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis.
Emotions and Digital Well-Being
Social media technologies (SMTs) are routinely identified as a strong and pervasive threat to digital well-being (DWB). Extended screen time sessions, chronic distractions via notifications, and fragmented workflows have all been blamed on how these technologies ruthlessly undermine our ability to exercise quintessential human faculties. One reason SMTs can do this is because they powerfully affect our emotions. Nevertheless, (1) how social media…
Ethics in the Covid-19 pandemic
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
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
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
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…
Social robots and digital well-being
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…
Till Death Do Us Part
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”
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…
Technologies of self-cultivation. How to improve Stoic self-care apps
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…
Evaluating the impact of improvements in urban green space on older adults’ physical activity and wellbeing
Retrospectively registered with study ID NCT03575923 . Date of registration: 3 July 2018
Nietzschean Self-Cultivation
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…
The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche
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
Natives and Pioneers
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
Death and Memory in Early America
Death is a historical phenomenon – although pervasive and unavoidable, it has not been understood or experienced in a uniform fashion over time. Death has visited some times and places more heavily than others; ideas about death, rites surrounding it, and the memorials and monuments commemorating it have varied over time and place. This article emphasizes the omnipresence of death in early America, an historical reality of great importance that w…
Festivals of Freedom
Book Review| January 01 2005 Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915 Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915, Mitch Kachun. Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (2): 113–114. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501571 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
Riot and Revelry in Early America
Edited by Anya labour and Revelry in Early America. Edited by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, and Simon P. Newman. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 316. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50.)Like many books that grow out of scholarly conferences, this one is hard to summarize. The book's first section, Riot and Rough Music, includes three essays on rural unrest and two on more explicitly political crowd actions in Bo…
Riot and Revelry in Early America
Edited by Anya labour and Revelry in Early America. Edited by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, and Simon P. Newman. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 316. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50.)Like many books that grow out of scholarly conferences, this one is hard to summarize. The book's first section, Riot and Rough Music, includes three essays on rural unrest and two on more explicitly political crowd actions in Bo…
Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity
Essays on the History of North American Discovery and Exploration
Initially setting out with nothing more than the idea of taking a shortcut to the Orient, early explorers of North America stumbled upon a confusing array of rivers and wild lands inhabited by strange peoples. This volume encompasses four centuries in the discovery and exploration of North America---the great roadblock to the Orient---and focuses on a theme of interaction between the World and the New. David B. Quinn explores European interest in…
The Oneida Indian Experience
Journal Article The Oneida Indian Experience: Two Perspectives. Ed. by Jack Campisi and Laurence M. Hauptman. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1988. XV + 207 pp. Cloth $29–95; paper, $14.95.) Get access Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 899–900, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936440 Publish…
Essays on the History of North American Discovery and Exploration
Initially setting out with nothing more than the idea of taking a shortcut to the Orient, early explorers of North America stumbled upon a confusing array of rivers and wild lands inhabited by strange peoples. This volume encompasses four centuries in the discovery and exploration of North America---the great roadblock to the Orient---and focuses on a theme of interaction between the World and the New. David B. Quinn explores European interest in…
Valley of Opportunity
Journal Article Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700–1800. By Peter C. Mancall. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xviii + 253 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-2503-4.) Get access Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700–1800. By Mancall Peter C.. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xviii + 253 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-2503-4.) Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis University of Orego…
The Founders of America
Journal Article The Founders of America: How Indians Discovered the Land, Pioneered in It, and Created Great Classical Civilizations; How They Were Plunged into a Dark Age by Invasion and Conquest; and How They Are Reviving. By Francis Jennings. (New York: Norton, 1993. 457 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-393-03373-2.) Get access Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Cultivating a Landscape of Peace
Bitter Feast
The Iroquois
Journal Article The Iroquois. By Dean R. Snow. (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994. xviii, 268 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-55786-225-7.) and Lewis H. Morgan on Iroquois Material Culture. By Elisabeth Tooker. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. xxii, 325 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-8165-1347-3. Paper, $40.00, ISBN 0-8165-1462-3.) Get access Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Cultivating a Landscape of Peace
This book examines the peculiar new worlds of the Five Nations of the Iroquois, the Dutch, and the French, who shared cultural frontiers in seventeenth-century America. Viewing early America from the different perspectives of the diverse peoples who coexisted uneasily during the colonial encounter between Europeans and Indians, he explains a long-standing paradox: the apparent belligerence of the Five Nations, a people who saw themselves as promo…
Cultivating a Landscape of Peace
Creating Picturesque America
Journal Article Creating Picturesque America: Monument to the Natural and Cultural Landscape Get access Creating Picturesque America: Monument to the Natural and Cultural Landscape. By Rainey Sue. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1994. xvii + 383 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wes…
New Worlds for All
Matthew Dennis; New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 1, 1 February 199
Parades and the Politics of the Street
Journal Article Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic. By Simon P. Newman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 and In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776–1820. By David Waldstreicher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997 Get access Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this au…
Traders' Tales
Riot and Revelry in Early America
Edited by Anya labour and Revelry in Early America. Edited by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, and Simon P. Newman. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 316. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50.)Like many books that grow out of scholarly conferences, this one is hard to summarize. The book's first section, Riot and Rough Music, includes three essays on rural unrest and two on more explicitly political crowd actions in Bo…
Festivals of Freedom
Book Review| January 01 2005 Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915 Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915, Mitch Kachun. Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (2): 113–114. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501571 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
Death and Memory in Early America
Death is a historical phenomenon – although pervasive and unavoidable, it has not been understood or experienced in a uniform fashion over time. Death has visited some times and places more heavily than others; ideas about death, rites surrounding it, and the memorials and monuments commemorating it have varied over time and place. This article emphasizes the omnipresence of death in early America, an historical reality of great importance that w…
Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity
Natives and Pioneers
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…
The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche
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
Evaluating the impact of improvements in urban green space on older adults’ physical activity and wellbeing
Retrospectively registered with study ID NCT03575923 . Date of registration: 3 July 2018
Nietzschean Self-Cultivation
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…
“Ours from the top to the very bottom”
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…
Technologies of self-cultivation. How to improve Stoic self-care apps
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 in the Covid-19 pandemic
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.…
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