Coded Displacement
During her graduate studies, black computer scientist Joy Buolamwini developed Aspire Mirror, an AI system that recognizes and reworks the user’s facial image with...
Lies, Fiction, and the Post Office
Early January in the UK witnessed an extraordinary outpouring of public outrage. In four parts, shown on successive nights, a TV drama documented prosecutions...
Diversity Statements are Discriminatory and a Waste of Time
You’re looking for a job. You hear there’s an opening at the local Caregivers Incorporated, a company that serves disabled people. This would be...
Why Care About Fair Legal Procedures?
It appears uncontroversial that having proper legal procedures is integral to the legitimacy of any judicial system and that the nature of these procedures...
May We Execute Even the Worst Murderers?
On October 27, 2018, the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh was hosting Shabbat services when Robert Bowers entered the building and opened fire....
The Ethical Complexity of Vaccine Hesitancy
You may not necessarily think about ethics until some ethical question becomes relevant to you. Generally speaking, ethics comprises the standards of conduct that...
Henry’s Radical Life or the Schmuck’s Life?
Henry Hill, in Scorsese’s most renowned Gangster movie, Goodfellas, aspires to be a radical individual. His freedom is expressed in his becoming a member of...
What is Decolonial Aesthesis? Art and Aesthetics at the Margins
‘The word “aesthetics” is reinvented by decolonial movements as a critique of the repressive mechanisms of colonial “beauty” associated with this term. It is...
Embracing the Mad Science of Machine Consciousness
Almost 25 years ago, I wrote my first (almost certainly naïve) MA thesis on chatbots for what was essentially a philosophy and AI program...
Do Philosophers Feel Bad For You?
A theoretical physicist, Sabine Hossenfelder, and a philosopher, Philip Goff, recently got into a Twitter spat about electrons. Hossenfelder advanced the view that physics...