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ChatGPT Reveals What We Value and What We Do Not

The promise of automation has traditionally been that machines will handle the work that we do not want to do so that we can...
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Breaking Bad Habits

Two things to note about habits: one, they are very hard to break and two, a fair number of them are bad for us. Many...
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AI Films and the Fudging of Consciousness

Remember feeling sorry for Hal 9000 when Dave Bowman was shutting him off in 2001: A Space Odyssey? Hal was a total AI prick—spying...
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Depression and the Good

The first time I was hospitalized for depression, it occurred to me to ask whether my fellow philosophers had anything to say about my...
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Racial Justice in Cugoano and Africana Philosophy

Imagine you are born to a white middle class family in the United States sometime after the civil rights movement. You do not think...
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Man-Made Horrors Beyond My Comprehension: Men and the Phenomenology of Misogyny

Author’s Note: The following discourse will concern misogyny as it pertains to men and women. It is worth observing, however, the pertinence of nonbinary...
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(Re)introducing the Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy Series

“Complexity” is something of a buzzword today—and probably for good reason. If we think about the organization of our societies, we are presented with an...

The Great British Brain Drain

Over the past few years, the UK has faced its fair share of trials. Today, one of the most pressing is the pressure placed...
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Travel, Fear, and Cheating

On a warm spring night in 2016, I found myself lost and alone in the small hours of morning in Kashgar. My welcome to...
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Eo and Animal Ethics

Disclaimer: Dr. Sara Bizarro is a series editor at the Blog of the APA. The views expressed here are solely those of the author...