Yearly Archives: 2026

Rick Rubin, Kant, and the Tasteful Genius

What does it mean to be a creative genius? The following clip is from a 2023 60 Minutes interview with legendary music producer Rick...

What ChatGPT Gets Wrong About Therapy: On The Ethical and Relational Limits of AI as Therapy

ChatGPT plays the role of a therapist. But it is not a particularly good therapist. And to worsen matters, as ChatGPT becomes more widely...

Homo HURAQUS 2050 and the Disruptive Techno-Convergence Era: How Humanoid Robotics, AI, Quantum and Synthetic Biology Are Recasting The Future of Humanity

Human civilization is entering a period of unprecedented technological acceleration. This convergence is pushing humanity toward what I define as civilizational frontier risks: systemic,...

The Threats of CEO Activism to the Democratic Process

We recently published an article in the Journal of Business Ethics reflecting on how CEO activism—the growing trend of CEOs taking public stances on...

Environmental Bioethics and the Problem of Interdependence

I find myself bothered by the relationship between bioethics and public health ethics. Is it that the former focuses on individuals and the latter...

APA Member Interview, Mark Coppenger

Mark Coppenger (BA, Ouachita; PhD, Vanderbilt; MDiv, SWBTS) retired in 2019 as Professor of Christian Philosophy and Ethics at SBTS, having also taught full...

Garden as a Performance

Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, the owner of the Muskau Park (now in Germany and Poland), an aristocratic gardener and author of Hints on Landscape...

Economic Democracy as the Redemption of Political Democracy

Economic democracy is most often defended by pointing to the so-called “firm-state analogy.” Hannes Kuch’s recent plea for economic democracy in an earlier post...

Why I Support the Virtual APA: How I Hate Virtual Conferences and Why I Keep Attending Them

The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a mini-series called “Why I Support the Virtual APA.” This post marks the fourth and final installment....

2022 Eastern Division Presidential Address: How Is Forgiveness Always a Gift?

Below is the audio recording of Miranda Fricker’s presidential address, “How Is Forgiveness Always a Gift?” given at the 2022 Eastern Division Meeting. The...

The Perceptual World of Danger

Ludwig Wittgenstein claimed, “The world of a happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.” This is definitely true at least...

How to Handle the Death of the Essay

During our section on Existentialism and the meaning of life in the Introduction to Philosophy course that I just finished TA-ing this Fall, we...

Loving Attention and Aesthetic Appreciation

Might my love of Picasso make me a better partner? Can appreciating artworks improve my capacity for loving attention in my relationships? Philosophers of...

Teaching Normative and Applied Ethics: How, and to What End? Stephen Scher

My new book, Revitalizing Health Care Ethics: The Clinician’s Voice (2025)—co-authored with the psychiatrist Kasia Kozlowska of the University of Sydney Medical School—begins in...

The Moral Life of Organs in an Age of Technological Innovation

Introduction In medicine, technology can refer to anything from antibiotics like penicillin used to treat everyday infections and antivirals that suppress HIV, to dialysis circuits...