Darian Meacham is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Maastricht University in the Netherlands where he works on philosophy, politics, technology and Responsible Research and Innovation (not always in that order). His personal website is www.darianmeacham.org.
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Published in: HomeCan quitting meat significantly help climate change?The amount of grains fed to US livestock is sufficient to feed about 840 million people who follow a plant-based diet. Is it time to give up meat?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJob automation threatens peoples' livelihoods. Can universal basic income save the day?Technological developments are rendering many jobs obsolete. Can implemeting a universal basic income provide a way of managing the social and economic implications of such a radical transformation?
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Published in: HomeBreaching the long litany of unlesses: a response to Simon Glendinning’s ‘Saving Europe from salvation'The risk to Europe is a perpetuation of crisis by implacable erosion, and with this the abdication of political institutions from protecting the interests of citizens that they are responsible for and to.
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Published in: HomeIntroducing three old ideas for a new Europe: flourishing, solidarity and care for the soulThese ideas--care for the soul, flourishing, solidarity--are ideas that according to Jan Patočka could be useful for reinterpreting our political space, in the face of a crisis which is shattering it.
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Published in: HomeIntroducing this week’s theme: Old ideas for a new EuropeWe have asked a diverse group of political activists and intellectuals to offer their reflections on these three old ideas - flourishing, solidarity and care for the soul – from the perspective of their activities and experiences.
