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Prof. Minka Woermann Medeprofessor

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Minka Woermann​ (PhD) is ʼn medeprofessor in die Departement Filosofie, direkteur van die Sentrum vir Toegepaste Etiek, hoof van die Eenheid vir Besigheidsetiek en Openbare Integriteit, en ondervoorsitter van die Sosiale en Besigheidsetiekkomitee van die Raad.

Haar navorsingsbelangstellings sluit in, besigheidsetiek, post-strukturele (Franse) filosofie, kritiese kompleksiteitsteorie, morele teorie en kunsfilosofie. Sy is tans besig met ʼn tweede PhD in die visuele kunste, wat fokus op die fenomenologie van skeppende vloei-ervarings.

Prof Minka Woermann
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Publikasies

Monografieë

  • Woermann, M. 2016. Bridging Complexity and Post-Structuralism: Insights and Implications. Switzerland: Springer International, 205 pp.
  • Woermann, M. 2013. On the (Im)Possibility of Business Ethics: Critical Complexity, Deconstruction, and Implications for Understanding the Ethics of Business. Dordrecht: Springer, 175 pp.

Geselekteerde vaktydskrifartikels

  • Woermann, M. 2020. Postcolonial thinking and modes of being with others. Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, 22(3): 833-848.
  • Mancilla-Garcia, M., Herz, T., Schlüter, M., Preiser, R., Woermann, M. 2020. Adopting process-relational perspectives to tackle the challenges of social-ecological systems research. Ecology and Society, (25)1: art. 29.
  • Woermann, M. and Engelbrecht, S. 2019. The Ubuntu challenge to business: From stakeholders to relationholders. Journal of Business Ethics, 157(1): 27-44.
  • Woermann, M. and Cilliers, P. 2012. The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics. South African Journal of Philosophy, 31(2): 447 – 463.

Geselekteerde boekhoofstukke (gerefereer)

  • Woermann, M. 2024. Monumental transformations and the re-membering of meaning. In J.S. Sanni and M.Z. Phiri (eds.). Monuments and Memory in Africa: Reflections on Coloniality and Decoloniality. Taylor and Francis (Routledge).
  • Woermann, M. 2022. Towards an African business ethics: Past contributions and future challenges and possibilities. In L.C. Rodrigues and J. Chimakonam (eds.). Key Concepts in African Ethics. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Preiser, R. and Woermann, M. 2019. Complexity, philosophy and ethics. In Global Challenges, Governance, and Complexity: Applications and Frontiers, V. Galaz (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 38 – 62.
  • Woermann, M. 2019. Complexity and the normativity of law. In J. Murray, T. Webb, and S. Wheately (eds.). Complexity Theory & Law: Mapping an Emergent Jurisprudence. London / New York: Routledge, 234 – 250.
  • Woermann, M. 2018. Business ethics in Africa. In E. Heath, B. Kaldis, and A. Marcoux (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics. London / New York: Routledge, 624 – 640.
  • Woermann, M. 2010. Corporate identity, responsibility and the ethics of complexity. In P. Cilliers and R. Preiser (eds.). Complexity, Difference and Identity. Dordrecht: Springer, 167 – 191.

Hoofstukke tot die volgende handboeke bygedra:

  • Brevis and M. Vrba (eds.). Contemporary Management Issues, Cape Town: Juta.
  • J. Smit, M. Vrba and T. Botha (eds.). Management Principles 7th ed. Juta.
  • Rossouw and L. van Vuuren. Business Ethics 5th ed.; 6th ed. Oxford University Press.
  • Rossouw, D. (ed.) Ethics for Accountants and Auditors 3rd ed.; 4th ed. Cape Town: Oxford University Press

Vir ʼn volledige lys van prof Woermann se publikasies, raadpleeg gerus https://sun.academia.edu/MinkaWoermann

Onderrig

Voorgraads

  • Filosofie 314: Strukturalisme en post-strukturalisme

Nagraads

  • Honneursmodule: Kompleksiteit, post-strukturalisme, en etiek
  • Programkoördineerder: Nagraadse Diploma in Toegepaste Etiek
  • Hoofdosent: MPhil (Toegepaste Etiek) met spesialisering in besigheidsetiek