Bad Institutions and What We Can Do About Them
A popular category of research in political philosophy is the finding of flaws with political institutions. For example, in recent work, some political philosophers...
Triangulation Gone Amok
It’s midterm election season in the U.S., and some of the senate races that will define the legislative balance of power over the next...
Taking the Place of the Stranger: Leibniz and the Ethics of Migration
A border looks different depending on which side of it one stands. To a citizen, it may appear as a line of defense: a...
Trust the System: Democratic Capacities in the Algorithmic Workplace (Part III)
In the previous post, I considered the depersonalization of authority, and the role of judgment and deliberation, in algorithmic workplaces. To end this series,...
Sugar-Coating Racist Speech
“Packing our message inside of existing cultural memes and humor can be viewed as a delivery method. Something like adding cherry flavor to children's...
Silence in Mood Disorders
We tend to assume that silence in and around mental illness is harmful and socially imposed. It is an assumption drilled into us by...
Becoming the Other: Horror’s Transformative Power
If you ask someone (other than a philosopher) what comes to mind when you say, “the other,” chances are the reply will refer to...
Trust the System: Democratic Capacities in the Algorithmic Workplace (Part II)
Picture a modern, high-tech warehouse. Here, human managers occupy a sort of fallback position: They still exist and still play a kind of supervisory...
On the Epistemic Messiness of Organizations
The world of today is often a messy place, not just because of the havoc we wreak on nature and each other, but also...
Why Is Reducing the Stigma of Psychiatric Disorder(s) So Difficult?
Psychiatric disorders, variously conceptualized, have always been a part of human life. They typically, but not always, are judged as negative differences from so-called...