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Today I am joined by a philosopher. Jean-Philippe Deranty is a Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His research focuses mainly on social issues, particularly those related to work and employment. In this episode, we discuss philosophy in the context of organizations and their management.

One of Jean-Philippe’s papers (“The Organization of Philosophy and a Philosophy of Organizations”) served as the inspiration for this episode. It is a chapter in a live collection: Handbook of Philosophy of Management, Cristina Neesham (ed.), Springer, found at https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-48352-8_32-1

Jean-Philippe also publishes a newsletter related to the centrality of work in our lives (part of a research effort funded by the Australian Research Council), which can be found here.

Charles G. Chandler, Ph.D.

References:

Herzog, Lisa. 2018. Reclaiming the System: Moral Responsibility, Divided Labour, and the Role of Organizations in Society. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press.

Ferreras, Isabelle. 2017. Firms as Political Entities. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.

Anderson, Elizabeth. 2017. Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and why we don’t talk about it). Princeton, NJ (USA): Princeton University Press.

Hegel, GWF. 1991. Elements of the Philosophy of Right (trans: Nisbet HB). Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press.