Why Care About Fair Legal Procedures?
It appears uncontroversial that having proper legal procedures is integral to the legitimacy of any judicial system and that the nature of these procedures...
May We Execute Even the Worst Murderers?
On October 27, 2018, the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh was hosting Shabbat services when Robert Bowers entered the building and opened fire....
The Ethical Complexity of Vaccine Hesitancy
You may not necessarily think about ethics until some ethical question becomes relevant to you. Generally speaking, ethics comprises the standards of conduct that...
Henry’s Radical Life or the Schmuck’s Life?
Henry Hill, in Scorsese’s most renowned Gangster movie, Goodfellas, aspires to be a radical individual. His freedom is expressed in his becoming a member of...
What is Decolonial Aesthesis? Art and Aesthetics at the Margins
‘The word “aesthetics” is reinvented by decolonial movements as a critique of the repressive mechanisms of colonial “beauty” associated with this term. It is...
Embracing the Mad Science of Machine Consciousness
Almost 25 years ago, I wrote my first (almost certainly naïve) MA thesis on chatbots for what was essentially a philosophy and AI program...
Do Philosophers Feel Bad For You?
A theoretical physicist, Sabine Hossenfelder, and a philosopher, Philip Goff, recently got into a Twitter spat about electrons. Hossenfelder advanced the view that physics...
Complex Trauma and Trans Philosophy
Academia offers many models for engagement, with the teacher-scholar model being one of the most prominent among philosophers. Prioritizing student development over academic research,...
Advocating for Abortion Rights while Respecting Grief for Pregnancy Loss
Before the United States Supreme Court overturned both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in its 2022 decision on Dobbs v. Jackson...
On Self-Deception and Self-Imposed Suffering
I don’t know when they became so popular, but in recent years I’ve noticed the proliferation of rustically framed mantras serving as home décor....