Occupational Choice, Liberal Freedom, and Social Necessity
Occupational choice is for many an existential and deeply personal matter. An avowed goal of liberal societies has always been to permit citizens to...
Sinking From Submarines: The Rules of Naval Warfare
We don’t often spend a lot of time thinking about the morality of submarine warfare. It’s a small and secretive world that rarely seeks attention. It...
Speaking Through Action: Open Rescue as Moral Assertion
Ridglan Farms in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin is a breeder of beagles for scientific research. It’s been a target of animal activism for about a...
The Police Can Lie to You
The police can either lie to Jane or they can be honest with her. If the police lie to Jane, it is probable that...
Words Without Knowledge: Augustine and the Use of Language in the Age of LLMs
In 2022, when Blake Lemoine shared his experience with LaMDA 2, he took the AI's responses seriously and claimed that artificial intelligence (AI) consciousness...
Who Controls the Future? On Capitalism, Democracy, and Social Alienation
Who controls the future? The answer to this question concerns the role and politics of financial investment under capitalism. Through its mode of investment,...
Atmospheres of Parenthood
Anyone who has visited the home of parents with a newborn baby can recognize from the outset a specific kind of atmosphere that seems...
Unironically Good? Hegel, Irony, and Nicolas Cage
When we think about irony, what comes to mind is often something like Socratic or dramatic irony. The first describes instances in which a...
The Ethics of Refugee Protection
Around 42.5 million refugees worldwide have been forced to flee their own states and are unable to return because of severe threats to their...
Why Casting Isn’t Coming Out: Heated Rivalry and Sexual Orientation
The actors in Heated Rivalry don’t leave much to the imagination. While many viewers tuned in for the steamier shower, penthouse, or cabin scenes,...