Issues in Philosophy

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What Machines Can’t Do

In this week’s talk from the Institute of Art and Ideas, the panel considers the potential of artificial minds. Turing has been joined by Hawking...
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Philosophy for Business Students

Business schools are one of the more unusual locations to find philosophers, and yet there are quite a few business schools that do integrate philosophy into...
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The Philosophy of String Theory

In this week's talk from the Institute of Art and Ideas, we look to unravel the secrets of the universe. Over 40 years have passed...
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What Undergraduate Millennial Women Want

Whether it’s in philosophy professions, journals, or undergraduate level classrooms, the ratio of men to women is unequal in philosophy.  For example, the American...
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On Asking Dangerous Questions About Spinoza

Rachel Kadish recently published her third novel The Weight of Ink (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) in which the protagonist is a female philosopher in the...
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Philosophy on the Small Screen

Ethics Matters is a new television philosophy series that addresses philosophical issues including freedom of expression, ethical consumption, rights, animals, and the environment.  The twelve...
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Humans versus Nature

From the call of the mountains to the preservation of wilderness, we wish to celebrate and protect nature as something precious. But what separates...

Open Letter on the Termination of Duquesne University Press

Duquesne University announced earlier this year that it will soon be closing Duquesne University Press after 90 years of operation.  In response, one of...
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Interview with Philosophical Fiction Writer Frances Howard-Snyder

Frances Howard-Snyder teaches philosophy at Western Washington University, but she prefers to explore ideas through fiction. She has been writing philosophical fiction for about five...

The Strangeness of Things

We assume that the world is made up of individual ‘things’. Yet from Heraclitus to high-energy physics, the search for what these might be...