Bordering on the Truth: A Northern Irish Case Study
If you read about a place called Newry, it will tell you that it is a city just on the edge of Northern Ireland’s...
The Weight and Limits of Academic Titles
On April 6, 1980, Le Monde published an interview with a French intellectual, whose name was not disclosed at the time. It was later...
Accounting for Institutional Limitations on Agency under Trump: Civil Servants’ Loyalty Traps
When I started investigating civil servants’ responses to the first Trump administration in 2017, I presumed civil servants were likely to face ethical dilemmas....
The Machiavellian Moment, Weak Covenantal Politics, and Co-existential Anxiety in the American Republic
The unpredictable character of contemporary history has become increasingly overwhelming, to the point that, when waking up in the morning, I experience the anxiety...
Medical Bias as Hierarchy
Just ten hours after giving birth to her second child via C-section, Kira Johnson died of haemorrhagic shock at Cedars-Sinai hospital, surrounded by some...
Socrates in Exile: The Fate of Thought in a Bureaucratic Age
As the foundations of independent thinking are rationalized in the administered world, the public role of philosophy as magistra vitae becomes an intellectual afterthought....
From Human to Cyborg: Art, Technology, and the Redefinition of Human Identity
Throughout the past century, technology's integration into the human body has redefined our understanding of identity, autonomy, and what it means to be human....
Reflections on Culture in American Film
I have taught intercultural communication and film, both separately and together, for more than two decades in the US and Hong Kong. I have...
Navigating the Intersection of AI, Science, and Society
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the landscape of scientific inquiry and public discourse, philosophers find themselves at a critical juncture....
The Value of a Life
This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with Filosofía...