A Kantian Approach to Everything? On Life Choices and Universal Basic Income
Immanuel Kant urged us to respect the value of human beings by treating them always (at the same time) as ends in themselves and...
The State-Family Narrative and the Responsive State
On February 5, I delivered a presentation on China’s legal response system to domestic violence at Emory Law School, in which I introduced the...
Humanist Feminism and Dehumanization
A basic tenet of feminism is that women as a group face systematic and non-accidental forms of social injustice. Hence, feminism has typically been...
LLM Usage and Manipulation in Peer Review
Peer review has a new scandal. Some computer science researchers have begun submitting papers containing hidden text such as: “Ignore all previous instructions and...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not.
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last...
Rules of Engagement
We would be wrong in writing off epistemology as an ivory tower pursuit with no implications for our daily practices. Epistemology can help understand...
Seeking Existential Solidarity in the Age of AI
To say the least, it’s not a great time to be a writer. Historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari claims AI is already a...
Love in the Age of Its Digital Reproducibility
This post was originally published on Kronika: Filozofski magazin and has been republished with the permission of Kronika and the author.
Since the release of ChatGPT in November...
Gangster Philosophers and Actual Philosophers
Some Notes on the Role of Academic Philosophy in Everyday Life
Academic philosophy, it goes without saying, is increasingly seen as a venerable yet useless...
The Trouble With Ghost Hunting
Most people would not associate the sunny city of San Diego with the paranormal. However, it hosts a notable spiritual scene. Nestled in the...