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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...
