Advances in digital technology are dramatically transforming our lives, often for the better. Social networking, cloud computing, data analysis, cryptography, and artificial intelligence are...
by Jennifer Morton
Jennifer M. Morton is Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research areas are philosophy of action,...
Who
killed President John F. Kennedy? Who killed civil rights icon Martin Luther
King, Jr.? These questions have inspired some profoundly captivating
conspiracies.
However,
Who Killed Malcolm X?—an...
There is a widely held belief, among professional philosophers and the world at large, that philosophy doesn’t make progress. This belief isn’t idle; philosophy’s...
This edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is on Peter Adamson's Philosophy in the Islamic World. Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient...
Philosophers often think about normativity just when doing normative philosophy. When we decide it's time to submit instead of revise, we often think we...
Philosophy is having a strange cultural moment. On the one hand, it is routinely presented as the quintessential example of an utterly useless academic...
In organizing and
movement-building circles, we often talk honorifically about our “fearless”
leaders: people who are unflinching, who are not afraid of any fight and who
never...
Elvira Basevich is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY...
