Nightclubs, Surveillance, and Nietzsche: The Dance Between Power and Freedom
Imagine you are walking into a nightclub in Berlin. You have waited in line for a while, and now there are two stickers on...
How Much Freedom of Speech is Too Much? (From a Philosophy of Language Point...
On February 14, 2025, the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, accused European countries of being too restrictive in their approach to...
Science and the Public
I was awarded my Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2007. Early in my Ph.D. program, I mentioned to a more senior graduate student that I...
The Cultural Case for Saving Endangered Languages
This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA's partnership...
Life as a Flow
Two Truths Approach Each Other
What is it to be oneself? Or to live authentically? Psychoanalysis was a first, in terms of the psychological...
Private Guns and Public Safety: Making Sense of the Tension
A natural way to understand the conflict between respecting individual rights and advancing the public good is as follows: if a socially worthwhile cause...
Information and Data Will Never Deliver Creativity
This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA's partnership...
On Sentimental Value
We all have items of sentimental value—whether it’s a pebble picked up on the beach, a souvenir magnet from a trip abroad, or a...
Are We All Hypocrites About the Rule of Law?
Charges of “that’s illegal!” don’t seem to stick across the political divide. When the left charges Trump with illegal acts, the right points out Biden’s...
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...