Free to Speak, Not to Listen: Freedom of Expression in the Age of AI...
Can you lose your free speech even when you are not prevented from saying anything? To answer this question, let us consider two ways in...
A Bridge, a Door and the Landscape Closer By
Standing atop a skyscraper, gazing out over the sea of buildings below, we may be tempted to call what lays before us an “urban...
Kant Among the Penguins: Social Contract Theory for the Anthropocene
Penguins in Antarctica are adjusting their seasonal breeding practices at record rates for vertebrate animals. Three species of penguins (Adélie, Chinstrap, and Gentoo) have...
Should You Boycott the World Cup?
How should we think about sporting events hosted by nations who have routinely engaged in gross human rights violations? Take the case of a...
Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Nepotism, Networking, and Structural Injustice
“Network, network, network” is the advice given to many job-seekers and for good reason. It is thought, for example, that over 60% of jobs...
Beyond Left and Right? Thinking Along the Lines of a Dividing Question
Recently, the Foundation for Philosophical Orientation launched an essay contest asking a provocative question: “Is the left-right distinction still useful for political orientation?” I...
Trade Unions and the Shaping of Public Opinion in Mass Democracy
Democracy’s transformation into mass politics has always gone hand-in-hand with new forms of political communication and media. From the early American republic to fin...
Where Measurement Ends, Need Begins
This post was originally published in Kronika: Filozofski magazin as “Gdje prestaje mjerenje, počinje potreba.” It has been translated by the author and reproduced here with the...
Traveling Within the Shadows of Fear
Saying goodbye to a loved one is a universal human moment of sadness and grief. It reminds us that everything good and sweet will...
Why We Blame the Dead
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
—Shakespeare, Cymbeline
A common saying...