Yearly Archives: 2026

Iris Murdoch’s Psychology of Haunting: Fantasy, Ethical Attention, and the Spectral Past

Iris Murdoch’s fiction is filled with the uncanny and the weird: drowned bodies, vampiric presences, telekinetic objects, angelic visitations, prophetic dreams, and adolescent “feyness.”...

Just Fake! Why Generative AI Art is a Myth

The year 2018 was a turning point in the debate about AI art. This was when Christie's offered the Portrait of Edmond de Belamy,...

Why Engage with the Past? Philosophy and Its History

In philosophy, you quite immediately notice a striking difference between content taught and philosophical research, for example, when looking at how philosophy departments are...

Why Do I Advocate for the General Use of the Term “So-Called Artificial Intelligence”?

This post was originally published in Kronika: Filozofski magazin as “Zašto predlažem opću upotrebu naziva ‘takozvana umjetna inteligencija’?” It has been translated by the author and...

Harold, Maude, My Dad, and Me

My father’s birthday recently passed. To honor his memory, I decided to rewatch the 1971 cult classic Harold and Maude, which he once told...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics: A Cinematic Exploration

Patrick D. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Central State University and a recipient of a 2025 American Council of Learned Societies...

Will Pricing Algorithms Spell the End of the Fair Market Price?

I hate haggling. I spent a lot of my life living and working in countries across the Asia-Pacific, where open negotiation for purchases is...

The Humanities Challenge: Expanding the Circle of Philosophy

“Philosophy is, or should be, a kind of magic. It is not an escape from but rather a new window—or many windows—onto our lives....

Dune’s Discomfort with Religion

Every adaptation puts a spin on the source material. Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), by director Denis Villeneuve, are infused...

“When You See This Sign…”: The Power of Silence in Propaganda

“The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic...

Philosophy as Children: Rethinking Adulthood as the Measure of Reason

Philosophy continues to rely on a particular fiction of the knower. Serious thought is still imagined to require a subject who appears autonomous, self-regulating,...

Normothermic Regional Perfusion, the Dead Donor Rule, and the Metaphysics of Causation

Over the last decade, a novel method of organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) known as normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) has come into widespread...

APA Member Interview, Stacy S. Chen

Stacy S. Chen is a PhD candidate and SSHRC doctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University...

When Gender Policing Backfires

Recently, I was coming home from a conference, and I had just gotten through TSA at an airport that I had been to before....

Combating “Opinion”: Gilles Deleuze Meets Timothy “Speed” Levitch

Below we find a clip from The Cruise, a 1998 documentary by Bennett Miller that follows the now-infamous New York City tour bus guide...