Public Philosophy

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The Costs of Climate Change

As the impacts of climate change become more emergent and costly, op-eds have attempted to answer questions of distributive justice. Recently, the most common...

Film as Experience: Vision for the Philosophy of Film Series

“Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” In The Wizard of Oz (1939), a cyclone transports Dorothy and her dog Toto...
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What Should Philosophers Do in Response to Dobbs? A Conversation With Ethicists

  In the wake of the Dobbs decision, many philosophers are left wondering how the changed landscape should impact their behavior.  What are our obligations...
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Samuel Alito’s Histories of Freedom

In early May, Politico published a leaked draft of Samuel Alito’s forthcoming opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which affirms Mississippi’s law...

Introducing the Ethical Issues in Public Philosophy Series

Times are changing. Roads may soon be populated by self-driving cars. The meat on sale in the supermarket may, before too long, be grown...
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Entangled Empathy and the Project of Changing the World

The world is a far from perfect place. There are so many problems confronting us – wars, poverty, injustice, racism, climate change. And it’s...

Acknowledging Intra-Minority Conflict: Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and the Intersectionality of Race and Class

Introduction In light of the recent reports of increased rates of hate crimes, especially violent hate crimes, against Asian Americans, I am motivated to think...

Everyday Moral Stress and the COVID-19 Pandemic

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in March 2020, I ordered Chinese take-out via a delivery app. I...
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Free Speech is Necessary to Combat the “Administrative State”

Many people, especially on the "progressive" side of politics, seem in recent years to have given up on a combination of views about free...

How Work Alienates Us From Our Social Lives

What does your usual weekday look like? For many of us, academics and non-academics alike, it probably looks something like this. You wake up...