Monthly Archives: April, 2026

A Black Detective in the White House: The Residence

For Bob Grunst, the only twitcher I know “Unpredictable recurrence is not a sign of language's ambiguity but is a fact: of language, as such,...

Writing Matters

Does writing have a future? This eerily prophetic question was posed by media theorist and phenomenologist Vilém Flusser back in 1987. Amidst the ever-expanding use...

Ethics in Business, James Murphy

Several years ago, I took over teaching an interdisciplinary elective in the Management Department at Loyola’s Quinlan School of Business entitled “Ethics, Economics, and...

Why We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now: Neurophilosophy and AI

The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation “artificial intelligence” (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am...

Towards a Conception of Systemic Discrimination

What is involved in seeing discrimination as systemic and structural, and how could such an approach help us identify injustices, or aspects of injustices,...

When Jokes Won’t Do: Affective Shifts in U.S. Late-Night Comedy

The news these days seems dire, so much so that people are opting out. News avoidance is a rapidly increasing phenomenon, mainly because a...

The Paradox of China’s Crypto Regulation and Capital Going Global (Part 2)

The Global Expansion of Chinese Crypto Capital and the Systemic Collapse of Community Culture In Part 1, I examined how China and the United States...

What Do We Really Know About “Obesity”?

In 1864, the scientist Benjamin Apthorp Gould was appointed to conduct a survey of the physical characteristics of thousands of Civil War soldiers, sailors,...

The Possibility of Love at First Sight

It is often asked if love at first sight is possible. Love is certainly possible. Adopting an attitude by looking at a person or...

Doing Philosophy in a Borrowed Tongue

Until I began my Ph.D. in the United States, I had spent my entire life in Korea, speaking Korean. While I had a sense...

Should Men Be Ashamed of Their AI Girlfriends?

More and more people are engaging with AI chatbots in seemingly social ways. Contemporary LLMs have become unsettlingly good at mimicking text-based chats between...

APA Member Interviews, Sharon Crasnow

Sharon Crasnow works on epistemological issues in the methodology of the social sciences. Her focus is primarily on feminist epistemology and philosophy of science...

God and the Quantum Mechanic

You’d be forgiven for thinking that I am an expert in philosophy. I am only a humble physicist. And while physics can instruct us...

On the Insufficiency of Current Gender Equality Policies in Academia and the Necessity of a Cultural Shift

Despite the proliferation of measures designed to promote gender equality in academia, structural inequalities persist—particularly in senior positions of responsibility, such as professorships. In 2021,...

Promoting Civic Friendship: The Transformative Power of Public Spaces

The neighborhood in Lisbon where I spend a lot of my time is densely populated. It has undergone many changes, with new cafes and...