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...
On the Insufficiency of Current Gender Equality Policies in Academia and the Necessity of...
Despite the proliferation of measures designed to promote gender equality in academia, structural inequalities persist—particularly in senior positions of responsibility, such as professorships. In 2021,...
Promoting Civic Friendship: The Transformative Power of Public Spaces
The neighborhood in Lisbon where I spend a lot of my time is densely populated. It has undergone many changes, with new cafes and...
War Ethics and Why We Shouldn’t Hope for the Best in Iran
Sometimes, the morally right thing to do is to support an unjust war. The thought behind this is simple. Some wars are morally mixed:...
What About Knowledge That No Longer Knows What It Is For?
This post was originally published in Kronika: Filozofski magazin as “Što sa znanjem koje više ne zna čemu služi?” It has been translated by the author and...
Is the Household Obsolete? Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Economy, Androcentrism, and the Socialization of...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) is well known to lovers of Gothic horror for her acclaimed story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892). This story, considered one...
How to Deal with Online Virtue Signaling
You’ve had a long day at work and come home wanting to unwind. You decide to scroll through your social media just to pass...
Using the Absurd: How Erasmus Challenges His Students
The Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, more often called Erasmus of Rotterdam, is well known for his satirical Praise of Folly, his letters, and his...
Dystopian Futures: Anthropic and the Department of Defense
Fantastical imaginings of a bleak and desolate end-state of mankind, characterized by environmental disasters, tyrannical governments, or some other cataclysmic decline, have been around...
Let Kids Be Kids? The Ethics of Maximizing Children’s Talents
Sam is fourteen years old. He spends hardly any time with friends or family. Every day, before or after school, or both, and every...