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CPP and Ethics Bowl: Powerful Partners for Peace, Matt Deaton
Ethics Bowls are known for modeling the democratic ideal: high-brow, collaborative discussion about difficult moral and political matters. Participants author their own positions, are...
Shaping Each Other’s Vision: Collective Intentionality and the Zohran Mamdani Campaign
This year began with Zohran Mamdani taking office as the Mayor of New York City, after having run what has been widely lauded as...
Sartre and Freedom: Teaching Responsibility in May 1968, Luis Maurin Hakala
Paris, May 1968. Barricades rose in the Latin Quarter, tear gas filled the French boulevards, and students occupied the Sorbonne. What started as a...
Rot, Rinse, Repeat
Brain Rot, Feedback Loops, and the Shared Costs of Social Media Optimization
In last month’s post, I introduced the idea of linguistic feedback loops in...
I, Large Language Model: Could Large Language Models Really Be Conscious?
The city I live in has many green-billed toucans. Besides their stunning looks, toucans also produce a conspicuous cry. One day, after hearing one...
Philosophy as Resistance: Polarization, Narratives and the Evaluative
As a philosopher working on interdisciplinary issues such as the polarization of public opinion, I’m often asked two things: what role philosophy plays in...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Praiseworthiness
Zoë Johnson King is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She previously worked...
Six Practices to Make Philosophy Part of Your Home
Make the positive anxiety of wonder part of home, and the search for sense and meaning, capacious and open, can unsettle your life as part of daily practice.
The Ascent of the Machine: Desire and Transcendence in Ex Machina and Her
A lonely man falls in love with an artificially intelligent machine, one that appears at first to return his affection. But the relationship ends...
The Thief of Virtue: “AI slop” is more than just bad content
The Macquarie Dictionary has selected its Word of the Year for 2025: “AI slop.” It refers to the deluge of low-quality, algorithmically generated content...
