Does Claude Need Review Board Protection?
Review boards protect both humans and animals when we use them in research: humans by the Institutional Review Board (IRB), animals by the Institutional...
Democratized Speech and the Spread of Social Ills
How the architecture of online platforms turns ordinary disagreement into something more contagious—and why the virus metaphor only gets us halfway there.
Almost everything we...
Dementia & Decision-Making: Why We Should Center Legacy in End-of-Life Care Planning
Dementia affects over 50 million people worldwide, and that number is only expected to increase as populations age and the average lifespan increases. At...
The Honesty Crisis
Honesty is under a lot of pressure today in areas of society ranging from politics to religion to celebrity culture to education. But honesty...
Killing Cleanly: The Ethical Illusion of Humane Execution
I’m going to start with an admission; I oppose the death penalty. There are several reasons for this. First, I consider it barbaric. Second,...
Creation as Cosmic Revelation: AI and the Purpose of Human Existence
In this series on Philosophy and Technology, I have returned repeatedly to a question that refuses resolution: what is the purpose of human existence,...
A New Three Volume Edition of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers (1677–1686)
For a philosopher whose ideas have rippled across logic, metaphysics, mathematics, and beyond, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz remains surprisingly under-translated. Descartes has his Cambridge edition;...
God and the Quantum Mechanic
You’d be forgiven for thinking that I am an expert in philosophy. I am only a humble physicist. And while physics can instruct us...
Why is Health Good for You?
“Brush your teeth,” a mother says to her son. She’s exhausted. She spent a long day organizing a series of speaking events hosted by...
Recommendation: U.K. Spinoza Circle
This series on Philosophy and Technology has construed technology broadly, often focusing on the relationship among faith, science, and philosophy. Several pieces have discussed Spinoza, and...