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...
Life Is a Lease Contract
Growing up, I was adamantly afraid of death. I had a habit of leaving the TV on as I slept at night, so my...
Agonistic Democracy and Its Remedies
In this winter of discontent we discover that democracy contains a dark side. We should lower our expectations without giving up hope.
The president suggests...
Why Aren’t Ethicists More Ethical?
Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher at University of California, Riverside, and a prolific blogger, has stirred up some controversy by studying whether ethics professors are...
The Importance of Gratitude
Gratitude lubricates social relations. To say thanks is to express gladness. But gratitude is also a spiritual capacity that lightens and energizes. Some call...