Ethics – both within philosophy and in the new disciplines of “applied ethics” and “business ethics” – is a vogue subject these days and, as such, calls for a few cautionary words. The resurgence of ethics has engendered two main schools of criticism: one which sees it as a passing...

Addresses the vexed question of how to discuss an object, e.g. the company, without adopting an a priori epistemological position. Attempts to tackle the problem of how representations, which form an integral part of all epistemology, arise. The first level of representation, where content is...