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Tag: Philosophy

Lewis Gordon, Nathalie Etoke

Lewis Gordon and Nathalie Etoke discuss the space for freedom opened up by Black existentialist thought.

Mala Chatterjee

Generative AI has made it possible to create lifelike models of real people. Should we?

David J. Chalmers

Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.

Daniel Williams

In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine. 

Anthony Morgan, Amna A. Akbar, Bernard E. Harcourt

Amna Akbar talks with Bernard Harcourt about his new book—and how we can build on existing forms of cooperation to transform society.

Christine Sypnowich

Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.

Becca Rothfeld

Feminist arguments against body modification are a dead end.

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum on her new book—and why a full development of our humanity requires developing our capacities to care for animals.

Jana Bacevic, Peter Vickers

Despite debates about scientific certainty, we do not need 100 percent consensus on a scientific claim to accept it as true. 

Johanna Winant

Reflecting on three monumental works of modernism a hundred years on.

Robin Dembroff, Paisley Currah

Trans-inclusive policies are essential, but efforts to establish them must not lose sight of the structural oppressions that trans people face. 

Kieran Setiya, Anil Gomes

Where is the line between professional philosophy and self-help? And how did we end up with this stark divide?

Chris Blattman

To discern why we fight, we should ask why we do not.

Anthony Morgan, Kate Soper, Lynne Segal

Feminist philosophers Kate Soper and Lynne Segal discuss the unsustainable obsession with economic growth and consider what it might look like if we all worked less.

Rachel Fraser

Epiphanies can prompt us to view the world differently, a new book contends. But they are no substitute for ethical and political debate.

Philip Kitcher

Science is always undertaken from a definite point of view, a new book concedes. But it enlarges our knowledge of the world through the interplay of different perspectives.

Joshua Cohen, Deborah Chasman

What if “post-growth living” could be an opportunity for greater pleasure, not less?

Kieran Setiya

In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death. His arguments are shaky.

Seyla Benhabib
The wide-ranging philosopher had the uncanny ability to bring very different traditions into conversation.
Lori Gruen, Alice Crary

The systems that harm animals go hand in hand with systems that harm humans. Combating them requires inter-species solidarity.

Alice Crary

How four women defended ethical thought from the legacy of positivism.

M. Andler
Apps like Tinder and OkCupid should make an ethical commitment to freeing their services from a gender binary. It would help all users, queer and straight alike.
Meena Krishnamurthy

Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.

Kieran Setiya

On the first English translation of Wittgenstein's early private notebooks.

Peter Filkins

Her critical writings explore the interrelations of philosophy and poetry, politics and prose—all against the backdrop of a society remaking itself in the shadow of fascism.

Teresa M. Bejan
Amidst growing suspicion that equality talk is cheap, a new book explains where egalitarianism went wrong—and what it still has to offer.
Brian Teare
Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients—but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a redemptive tale about what is wrong with them.
Mark D. Jordan
Against the philosopher’s dying wish, the final volume of History of Sexuality has now been published. How should we approach it, and what can it teach us about how Christianity shaped the modern self?
Annie Howard
Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven reminds us of the radical power of collective imagination.
Francey Russell
The release of a restored Basic Instinct alongside director Paul Verhoeven’s newest erotic epic, Benedetta, offers an occasion to think not only about the ethics and politics of watching bodies on screen, but about the uncanny relationship between film and reality.
Michael Jackson
An anthropologist reflects on West African divination as a case study in hope during times of great uncertainty.

A recording of a virtual roundtable to honor the life and work of Charles W. Mills.

Oded Na’aman

How philosophical thinking can make truthfulness possible even when the truth can barely be fathomed.

Paul Linden-Retek

The UN Convention on Refugees gives form to a humanitarian ideal, but states still judge what counts as harm and who deserves protection.

Becca Rothfeld

On feminism, sex, and the ethics of desire.

Nicolas Guilhot

Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.

John Crowley

A recent government report gave UFOs a rebrand, but so many basic questions remain unanswered.

Simon Torracinta

For economist Albert O. Hirschman, social planning meant creative experimentation rather than theoretical certainty. We could use more of his improvisatory optimism today.

Annette Zimmermann

Justice demands that we think not just about profit or performance, but above all about purpose.

Judith Levine
The penalties of gender and sexual violence are not equally distributed, but psyche violence is genderless.
Lily Hu

Studying the social world requires more than deference to data—no matter the prestige or sophistication of the tools with which they are parsed.

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