Team

Founder

José Alarcón PhD, MBA
ABOUT

Jose holds a PhD in Moral and Political Philosophy and an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is passionate about applying philosophy to the better management of our lives.

He currently has an advisory role at TMBP. He has previously been a senior manager at DaimlerChrysler, taught in different business schools and worked as an Internet researcher.

Originally from Barcelona, he lived and worked in San Francisco, Arizona, Detroit, Singapore, Tokyo, London, Stuttgart, and Madrid previously. He is now based in Ibiza. He loves books, surfing, and laughter.

THE STORY

After a career in management, discussions with PhD colleagues showed me how philosophy unlocks new ways to tackle complexity. That revelation became True Management by Philosophy, a commitment to deep thinking to guide decisions and purpose.

Speaking

Convegno2023: 10.06.23
Digital Governance
Torino, Italy

EM Normandie: 3.6.23
Mead and The Generalized Other
Oxford, U.K.

Can Cristofol: 25.5.23
Technology, Freedom, and Society
Ibiza, Spain

EDMO: 24.10.22
Digital media and information disorders
Aarhus, Denmark

Politik und Internet : 7.10.22
Transformations in the digital age
Granada, Spain

IAMCR: 8.7.22
Digital Governance and Transcultural Communication
Suzhou, China

ThePatio: 8.7.22
Similarity, Selection, and Influence
Groningen, The Netherlands

Algocount: 7.7.22
Algorithmic Public Opinion
Milan, Italy

Digital Transformation: 13.5.22
Effective Democracies
Graz, Austria

Budpt21: 21.12.21
Ethics of AI
Budapest, Hungary

Writing

Academic:

Connections: 8.3.24
Homophily versus the Generalized Other

Endoxa: 20.6.23
Moral Progress in the Virtual Space: From the Significant Other to the Generalized Other.

Dialnet: 5.2.21
The Construction of the Individual in the Cyberspace (Doctoral Thesis)

Unpublished: 7.9.10
The Moral Grounds of Richard Sennett
(Master Thesis)

Artist Texts

Li ramet: 19.09.24
Rescuing Eros

Ses12Naus: 28.06.24
A water choreography

GaleríaT: 19.1.24
Painting with duende

GaleríaT: 30.1.24
The Savage

CarleN: 4.11.2023
The Complicit Look

Thinkers

Things can always be otherwise

José Alarcón, PhD

Philosophy is a love affair with life

Finn Janning, PhD

Philosophy unsettles what you take for granted

Soren Tinning, PhD

Life can be lived in endless ways

Andrés Alonso, MPhil