Public Philosophy

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the landscape of scientific inquiry and public discourse, philosophers find themselves at a critical juncture....

Many philosophers, from Kant and Marx to Rawls and Angela Davis, take the nature of the economy to be central to the justification of...

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...

In the last post of this series, I introduced the issue of algorithmic bias. Inspired by the well-meaning but ultimately flawed efforts of Google’s chatbot, Gemini, towards inclusivity, I looked at the challenges of addressing bias—such as the conceptual ambiguity of terms like 'fairness' and the inherent subjectivity in correcting bias. This raised the fundamental question of how best to approach the issue: should we adopt a normative stance, based on how we think the world should be, or a descriptive one, reflecting how the world actually is? The former approach has subjectivity problems, risks distorting the truth, and importantly might deprive us of insights into inequality that we need to address. However, bias is damaging on so many levels and needs to be dealt with somehow.

The January 6th Insurrection is often framed as a direct assault on democracy. While there are certainly good reasons for doing so, casting the...

Ex Machina (2014) Arrival (2016) Annihilation (2018) I Am Mother (2019) I am a huge science fiction film buff. In my adolescence, I was a prolific reader of so...

My novel, A Beautiful Land, tells the story of a land that is physically beautiful but once was a place of terror. As I...

It sometimes seems that we approach the theory and practice of democracy with one hand clasped firmly behind our back. Although reams of ink...

I love the weird bends of our behavior that come about from taking our made-up rules too seriously. This phenomenon seems to me like...

In a world where AI’s reach continues to expand, the challenge of managing algorithm bias has become increasingly apparent. The recent missteps by Google's...