Woman, Life, Freedom: When Dress Codes Kill
Our younger daughter traveled to Israel with a group of teenagers in July 2021, the summer before their senior year of high school. The...
Climate Change and the Extended Self
Climate change represents a singular challenge for humanity. However, social attitudes on the topic seem to differ by age. Pew Research Center reports that,...
The Philosophy of Inception
Inception (2010) raises philosophical questions throughout the film, but especially at the end. The protagonist, Cobb, returns home after completing his mission. Seeing his...
Ethics Bowl for an Uncivil World
The world is too much with us late and soon...
—William Wordsworth
When Wordsworth wrote these words, he was concerned that the world was increasingly encroaching...
Vision for the Current Events in Public Philosophy Series
Ask someone what springs to mind when they think of a philosopher, and you’ll typically get one of three answers. First, they may paint...
The Faces of Death: More than a Macabre Rite of Passage
Last year it was announced that the gruesome cult classic, Faces of Death (1978), would be remade by the team responsible for the film...
A Philosopher’s Take on Effective (Non-Egoic) Activism
Billions of farmed animals are hurt and killed in terrible ways every year on factory farms around the world. Professional ethicists like myself are...
Is Housework a Sisyphean Struggle or a Way to Bring Joy to Our Lives?
Disclaimer: For the purposes of this blog article, the author aims to contrast the public life of men and the private life of women,...
Should We Embrace Nature as a God?
Can treating nature as a God be a solution to the problems of the climate crisis, or is that likely to cause even more...
On Finding Common Ground
So-called “affective polarization” (Iyengar & Westwood, 2015)—deep antagonism between outgroup members—is a pressing contemporary issue. Affectively polarized individuals are often incapable of cooperating, engaging...