On and Off in Life and Death
Less than a year after the American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett put out his latest collection of quality ruminations on his life, titled I've...
Philosophers Can Be Awesome At Political Phone Banking
As I write, the 2024 U.S. federal election is in its final stretch, and it’s a nail-biter. A few thousand swing voters may well...
The Invader, Self-Knowledge: Four Science Fiction Films that Intuit the Human Future. Part 2: ...
Ex Machina (2014)
Arrival (2016)
Annihilation (2018)
I Am Mother (2019)
In the film Arrival, human exploration comes in the form of empathetic engagement by linguist Louise Banks....
The Origin of Covid-19 and the Politics of Science
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many scientists embraced the idea, based on past experience with other coronaviruses, that it was highly...
How Chinese Youth Engage with Vulnerability Theory: A Reflection
Vulnerability theory, which has gained considerable traction in Western legal and philosophical discourses, particularly in Europe and North America, remains relatively unknown in Chinese...
Chatting with the Dead
For millennia, bereaved people have tried to continue their relationship with the deceased through various artifacts, practices, and rituals. 2,300 years ago, the Confucian...
Gun Owning Philosopher Speaks Out
I am a professor of philosophy. I am also a gun owner. And I think that advocates of gun control need to stop all...
Navigating the Intersection of AI, Science, and Society
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the landscape of scientific inquiry and public discourse, philosophers find themselves at a critical juncture....
The Hammer and the Orchestra: Democratic Production from Kant to Angela Davis
Many philosophers, from Kant and Marx to Rawls and Angela Davis, take the nature of the economy to be central to the justification of...
The Value of a Life
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...