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Sinking From Submarines: The Rules of Naval Warfare
We don’t often spend a lot of time thinking about the morality of submarine warfare. It’s a small and secretive world that rarely seeks attention. It...
Returning to Plato’s Cave: Dislodging the Individualist Distortion
Wisecrack’s 8-Bit Philosophy video on Plato’s cave raises the question of what is real by providing a summary of the episode from Plato’s Republic—using...
Haley Irene Burke, Aesthetics: Philosophy of Art & Beauty
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of the Incarnate Word. At the heart of its Mission Statement is...
Speaking Through Action: Open Rescue as Moral Assertion
Ridglan Farms in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin is a breeder of beagles for scientific research. It’s been a target of animal activism for about a...
Copyediting and Philosophy, Part 3: Language, Power, and Copyediting
The Issues in Philosophy Beat is running a three-part mini-series called “Copyediting and Philosophy,” which focuses on issues around copyediting relevant to the philosophy...
The Police Can Lie to You
The police can either lie to Jane or they can be honest with her. If the police lie to Jane, it is probable that...
Killing Cleanly: The Ethical Illusion of Humane Execution
I’m going to start with an admission; I oppose the death penalty. There are several reasons for this. First, I consider it barbaric. Second,...
Creation as Cosmic Revelation: AI and the Purpose of Human Existence
In this series on Philosophy and Technology, I have returned repeatedly to a question that refuses resolution: what is the purpose of human existence,...
Words Without Knowledge: Augustine and the Use of Language in the Age of LLMs
In 2022, when Blake Lemoine shared his experience with LaMDA 2, he took the AI's responses seriously and claimed that artificial intelligence (AI) consciousness...
Race, Risk, and the VBAC Calculator: The Politics of Race Correction in Childbirth
I started noticing a pattern. Every Black woman I know who has given birth in the past decade delivered by cesarean. Some of those...
