The Scholar’s Vocation
Summer becomes fall, bringing with it preparations for the upcoming academic year; recent high-school graduates look forward to their next step, professors craft syllabi,...
Not all Films are Fiction Films
What is actually going on in the cinema is that you are sitting in a comfortable chair, in a darkened room? Let’s say you...
In the Name of the Climate: On Throwing Stuff at Art
I recently paid a visit to a friend. After an obligatory catch-up, we found ourselves sitting comfortably on a sofa skipping through various international...
ChatGPT Reveals What We Value and What We Do Not
The promise of automation has traditionally been that machines will handle the work that we do not want to do so that we can...
Breaking Bad Habits
Two things to note about habits: one, they are very hard to break and two, a fair number of them are bad for us.
Many...
AI Films and the Fudging of Consciousness
Remember feeling sorry for Hal 9000 when Dave Bowman was shutting him off in 2001: A Space Odyssey? Hal was a total AI prick—spying...
Depression and the Good
The first time I was hospitalized for depression, it occurred to me to ask whether my fellow philosophers had anything to say about my...
Racial Justice in Cugoano and Africana Philosophy
Imagine you are born to a white middle class family in the United States sometime after the civil rights movement. You do not think...
Man-Made Horrors Beyond My Comprehension: Men and the Phenomenology of Misogyny
Author’s Note: The following discourse will concern misogyny as it pertains to men and women. It is worth observing, however, the pertinence of nonbinary...
(Re)introducing the Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy Series
“Complexity” is something of a buzzword today—and probably for good reason.
If we think about the organization of our societies, we are presented with an...