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Inescapable philosophy?

Do we need philosophy to understand and explain our behaviour?

Koen Smets
6 min readNov 17, 2017

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I am going to make a quick assumption here about your honesty. How come you never engage in something like shoplifting? Surely doing so is to your economic advantage. Is it because it is against the law? Maybe because you are scared of being punished or humiliated? What if you were certain you wouldn’t get caught —…

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Koen Smets

Accidental behavioural economist in search of wisdom. Uses insights from (behavioural) economics in organization development. On Twitter as @koenfucius