Yearly Archives: 2025

Legal but Not Protected: The Precarious Space of H-1B Workers

Earlier this year, a heated debate over the H-1B visa program erupted among key supporters of President Trump and soon sparked reactions across the...

Iran Is the Enemy the West Created

War with the West needs a theocracy This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the...

Flirting with Personhood: Will Smith’s Date with Sophia the Robot

With the increased prevalence of AI chatbots on dating apps, many users wonder if their date-to-be is really a person. The following clip depicts...

Technology and Disability, Ashley Shew, Damien P. Williams, and Joshua Earle

The three of us have taught classes about Technology and Disability through a philosophical lens, though this class has not been taught exclusively through...

AI Agents and Solidarity at Work

Imagine the following scenario: You are an engineer who has worked for years with a small group of colleagues. One day, your company informs...

The Poetic Way of Resistance to Western Hegemony: Where Fanon’s Anti-Imperialism and İsmet Özel’s Spiritual Resistance Meet?

Frantz Fanon offers in-depth studies of the emancipation processes of postcolonial societies and emphasized that these processes are not limited to physical independence but...

Copycat Covers

Taylor Swift is a hugely successful businesswoman. She’s also an artist. A large part of her “Taylor’s Versions” project is (or was) the replication...

APA Member Interview, Kristin Borgwald

Kristin Borgwald recently joined the faculty of St. Louis Community College, Meramec. She was previously a professor at Miami Dade College for 14 years,...

What is the inner life of an atom?

Panpsychism is the belief that mind is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world. Panpsychism resolves a dilemma within realism: mind is itself elemental or...

Accounting for Institutional Limitations on Agency under Trump: Civil Servants’ Loyalty Traps

When I started investigating civil servants’ responses to the first Trump administration in 2017, I presumed civil servants were likely to face ethical dilemmas....

Crimes against women is the excuse, not the cause

Sometimes, you know just from the title: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” Rich as this...

The Republican Moment: Reviving Freedom and Democracy in an Authoritarian Age

Across the globe, authoritarianism is in the ascendancy. As Freedom House have reported, over the last two decades many repressive regimes across the world...

2019 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy, Science, and History: A Personal Perspective

Below is the audio recording of Michael Friedman’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy, Science, and History: A Personal Perspective,” given at the 2019 Pacific Division...

Should States Be Allowed to Sell Their Citizenship?

Many philosophers think that certain things should not be for sale. But should states sell citizenship to foreigners? Consider one recent proposal: President Donald...

The Problem with the Phrase “I’m Not Surprised, But…”

“I’m not surprised, but….” “It is hardly unexpected that this has happened, but….” I trust that such formulations are familiar, as is what follows:...