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...
Is Housework a Sisyphean Struggle or a Way to Bring Joy to Our Lives?
Disclaimer: For the purposes of this blog article, the author aims to contrast the public life of men and the private life of women,...
Should We Embrace Nature as a God?
Can treating nature as a God be a solution to the problems of the climate crisis, or is that likely to cause even more...
On Finding Common Ground
So-called “affective polarization” (Iyengar & Westwood, 2015)—deep antagonism between outgroup members—is a pressing contemporary issue. Affectively polarized individuals are often incapable of cooperating, engaging...
The Costs of Climate Change
As the impacts of climate change become more emergent and costly, op-eds have attempted to answer questions of distributive justice. Recently, the most common...
Film as Experience: Vision for the Philosophy of Film Series
“Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” In The Wizard of Oz (1939), a cyclone transports Dorothy and her dog Toto...
What Should Philosophers Do in Response to Dobbs? A Conversation With Ethicists
In the wake of the Dobbs decision, many philosophers are left wondering how the changed landscape should impact their behavior. What are our obligations...
Samuel Alito’s Histories of Freedom
In early May, Politico published a leaked draft of Samuel Alito’s forthcoming opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which affirms Mississippi’s law...
Introducing the Ethical Issues in Public Philosophy Series
Times are changing. Roads may soon be populated by self-driving cars. The meat on sale in the supermarket may, before too long, be grown...
Entangled Empathy and the Project of Changing the World
The world is a far from perfect place. There are so many problems confronting us – wars, poverty, injustice, racism, climate change. And it’s...