Moral Status and Moral Agency in Science Fiction
Kantian theories on moral status tightly weave together rationality, agency, dignity, and personhood. A common complaint about these theories set the bar for membership...
Bo Burnham’s Inside and the Foucauldian Ethics of the Self
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Violence Against Asian Women: The Enduring Legacy of 1875 Page Act
On March 21, 2021, eight people were murdered as a man drove across the Atlanta metro area attacking massage parlors owned or operated by...
Woman, Life, Freedom: When Dress Codes Kill
Our younger daughter traveled to Israel with a group of teenagers in July 2021, the summer before their senior year of high school. The...
Climate Change and the Extended Self
Climate change represents a singular challenge for humanity. However, social attitudes on the topic seem to differ by age. Pew Research Center reports that,...
The Philosophy of Inception
Inception (2010) raises philosophical questions throughout the film, but especially at the end. The protagonist, Cobb, returns home after completing his mission. Seeing his...
Ethics Bowl for an Uncivil World
The world is too much with us late and soon...
—William Wordsworth
When Wordsworth wrote these words, he was concerned that the world was increasingly encroaching...
Vision for the Current Events in Public Philosophy Series
Ask someone what springs to mind when they think of a philosopher, and you’ll typically get one of three answers. First, they may paint...
The Faces of Death: More than a Macabre Rite of Passage
Last year it was announced that the gruesome cult classic, Faces of Death (1978), would be remade by the team responsible for the film...
A Philosopher’s Take on Effective (Non-Egoic) Activism
Billions of farmed animals are hurt and killed in terrible ways every year on factory farms around the world. Professional ethicists like myself are...