The Story of Romance
From love at first sight to falling head over heels, it seems love isn’t something we do but something that happens to us. Yet...
Fiction as Experimental Philosophy: Interview with Bryony Pierce
Bryony Pierce attended the Fiction Writing for Philosophers Workshop that was held at Oxford Brookes University on June 1-2, 2017 and here she reflects on...
Philosophy and Wonder Woman
When I saw the Wonder Woman (2017) film, I felt ambivalent. I have had the opportunity to apply different philosophical lenses to analyze superheroes...
Can Effective Altruism Create a World of Wellbeing?
Global development has struggled to live up to expectations and has failed to meet the needs of millions of people living in poverty. Economic...
How does language describe the world?
We effortlessly use language to describe the world. Yet the puzzle of how language achieves this has stumped philosophers for a century. Are we...
Lies and Beauty: Is lying somehow essential to our lives?
Weapons of mass destruction, the NSA, and Watergate: many have felt cheated by the lies of the powerful. Yet we all twist the truth...
Philosophy on TV: “The Good Place”
The Good Place is a 2016 NBC television series in which one of the two lead characters -- played by William Jackson Harper -- is an ethics professor...
Unexplained Events
We assume all events are caused by something. Yet we happily refer to random chance be it a freak accident, or the state of...
A Novelist’s Tips for Writing Philosophical Fiction
The APA grant funded Fiction Writing for Philosophers Workshop was held at Oxford Brookes University on June 1-2, 2017. It was organized by Helen...
Is beauty hardwired into our world?
Beauty is in the eye of beholder. Yet from animal plumage to the grandeur of nature, beauty also seems curiously hardwired into reality. Is...