Responsible Ontological Work: Guidance for Doctoral Education and the Ontological Turn
本文提出“负责任的本体论工作”概念，包括七种实践和两种关键能力，为培养负责任的研究者提供本体论理论基础和教学指导，适合管理教育者和博士生导师参考。
Responsible management education and research movements have recently begun to highlight the importance of responsible doctoral education. In parallel, signs of an increasing turn to ontological matters concerned with the nature of existence have emerged. The implication is that becoming a responsible researcher requires that we learn to responsibly practice our ontologies, navigating their immanent epistemic (ir)responsibilities to society and moral (ir)responsibilities to our respective research communities. This narrative review introduces seven salient ontologically responsible practices: ontological appreciation, emancipation, dialogue, symbiosis, alignment, inclusion, and politics. I propose the label of “responsible ontological work” to capture the efforts of enacting these practices to cultivate one’s beliefs about the nature of reality and to responsibly engage with others’ beliefs. Learning responsible ontological work requires engaging two key competences: ontological reflexivity and empathy. These key competences offer targeted pedagogical guidance, while the seven ontologically responsible practices offer ample contents to draw from when teaching and learning responsible ontological work. This article contributes to the responsible management education and research movements by offering an ontological-theoretical foundation and a pedagogy for developing responsible role model academics. I close with an outlook on responsible ontological work in times of rampant anti-intellectualism and pervasive artificial intelligence.