Occupational choice is for many an existential and deeply personal matter. An avowed goal of liberal societies has always been to permit citizens to...
Jules Holroyd is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Their recent book, Oppressive Praise (Oxford University Press), was shortlisted for the...
We don’t often spend a lot of time thinking about the morality of submarine warfare. It’s a small and secretive world that rarely seeks attention. It...
Wisecrack’s 8-Bit Philosophy video on Plato’s cave raises the question of what is real by providing a summary of the episode from Plato’s Republic—using...
The Issues in Philosophy Beat is running a three-part mini-series called “Copyediting and Philosophy,” which focuses on issues around copyediting relevant to the philosophy...
In this series on Philosophy and Technology, I have returned repeatedly to a question that refuses resolution: what is the purpose of human existence,...
In 2022, when Blake Lemoine shared his experience with LaMDA 2, he took the AI's responses seriously and claimed that artificial intelligence (AI) consciousness...
Who controls the future? The answer to this question concerns the role and politics of financial investment under capitalism. Through its mode of investment,...
