Yearly Archives: 2024

Moral Psychology, Jada Wiggleton-Little

The following syllabus is for a virtual 5-week summer course on Moral Psychology forundergraduate students at a public university. The course specifically looked at...

University of Arizona Philosophy Club

The University of Arizona Philosophy Club was founded a few years ago around 2020. Each semester we reserve rooms in one of the classrooms...

“If you become a monster, the fight is not worth it”: An interview with Dr. Ba

Mouhamadou El Hady Ba is an associate professor of Philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. Professor Hady Ba is also the...

What Do We Owe Our Neighbors?

(Please note: This post contains my personal reflections on my own experiences within my current neighborhood, and as such I believe it is important...

Friedlaender Fever

Salomo Friedlaender with his son Heinz Ludwig and his wife Marie Luise (Image has been AI-enhanced). Who isn’t eager to learn more about a philosopher...

TikTok: The Surveillance State and Your Role

Lately, you cannot walk down a busy street, go to work, eat at a restaurant, workout at the gym, or go grocery shopping without...

How Not to Excuse Far-Right Women

“I am still in utter disbelief by Thursday’s verdict. Never in my life did I imagine my own government would charge me as a...

Should We Continue to Read and Honor Immoral Historical Philosophers?

In 2020, the University of Edinburgh renamed what was then called Hume Tower, removing the name of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume...

LuFlot: The first philosopher-powered chatbot

Portraits by Mara Lavitt; Image courtesy of Yale University Students now have a new tool at their disposal. The Luciano Floridi Bot, also known as...

Two Principles of Academic Ethics

Some time ago, while I was advising a doctoral student regarding her search for an academic position, she showed me her graduate school transcript....

APA announces new AI2050 Prizes

The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce the establishment of the APA AI2050 Prizes, supported by Schmidt Sciences. The APA AI2050 Prizes...

An Alternative to Argumentation: Persuasion via Questions

In my last post, I introduced Julia Galef’s way of thinking about motivated reasoning, what she calls soldier mindset: people take ideas personally, and...

Philosophical Mastery and Conceptual Competence

I roughly sort pedagogical issues into two broad categories: engagement and mastery. By “engagement” I mean roughly discussion and reflection on teaching methods that...

The Power of Pan-Africanism: A Dialogue with Dr. LaRose Parris

Dr. LaRose T. Parris, originally from Jamaica in the West Indies, and shaped by the diverse cultural landscape of New York City, is Associate...

The Supreme Court’s Symbolic Code of Conduct

Two things seem true about modern professional life. One, most professional activities nowadays (legal ones, anyway) are backed by a code of conduct—roughly, a set...