Who is a Refugee?
The last several weeks have seen an increase in news about people on the move. These stories have laid bare, once again, the ways...
Three Keys to Surviving the Coronavirus Pandemic: Compassion, Simplicity, Patience
In times of crisis it is natural to reassess and reprioritize. Once the initial panic subsides, let’s use our time sheltering in place as...
Digital Technology’s Democratic Deficits
Advances in digital technology are dramatically transforming our lives, often for the better. Social networking, cloud computing, data analysis, cryptography, and artificial intelligence are...
Public Philosophy and Philosophical Progress
There is a widely held belief, among professional philosophers and the world at large, that philosophy doesn’t make progress. This belief isn’t idle; philosophy’s...
Living the Good Life
Philosophy is having a strange cultural moment. On the one hand, it is routinely presented as the quintessential example of an utterly useless academic...
How Philosophy for Children Improves Me as a Philosopher
We live in urgent times, and thoughtlessness seems to prevail. “We need to do philosophy in the world,” C. Thi Nguyen wrote this past...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Overdoing Democracy
This edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is about Robert Talisse's book Overdoing Democracy. Robert Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy...
Media Justice in the Post-Truth World
At the Eastern meeting of the American Philosophical Association in January, the five winners of the 2019 public philosophy writing award were recognized. One...
A Good Place for Philosophy?
At the beginning of the 21st century, the philosophical discourse concerning good and evil seems to be subsumed into three major areas; meta-ethics which...
A Modest Proposal for the New Year
Sober philosophical guidance about New Year’s Eve seems unsuited to a holiday marked by a champagne buzz and celebratory gunfire. But many of us...