Affirmative Action and the General Theory of the Second Best
Philosophers have a habit of approaching political problems in a certain way. They start by imagining a perfectly just world, then suggest ways of...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Citizen Knowledge
Lisa Herzog is Professor of Political Philosophy and Dean at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Netherlands. She has written on the philosophical...
In defense of scientifically and philosophically (not politically) critiquing neurobiological theories of consciousness
On September 16th, an open letter signed by a group of 124 researchers labeled the integrated information theory (IIT) of consciousness pseudoscience. As Nature...
Quantum Physics Reveals the Unity of the Universe
This article was originally published on August 23rd, 2023 in the online magazine of the Institute of Art and Ideas: https://iai.tv/articles. This essay is...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy
Benjamin P. Davis is a postdoctoral fellow in African American Studies at Saint Louis University. His recent book, Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: Field Notes...
What Hegel Has to Teach Us about AI
This essay was previously published July 6th, 2023 in The New Statesman
In the summer of 2022, engineer Blake Lemoine posted to Medium a transcript of his...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Games: Agency as Art
C. Thi Nguyen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. He works in social epistemology, aesthetics, practical reasoning, and value theory,...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Care
Todd May teaches philosophy at Warren Wilson College and is the author of seventeen books on philosophy, including Death, A Significant Life: Human Meaning in...
Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Database: What We Found
We have been part of efforts to launch the Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative (3PI), a new project supported by the American Philosophical Association...
Upcoming Ethical and Responsible Research Webinar
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Jason Borenstein is the Director of the National Science Foundation’s Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) Program. Jason will be participating...