Longtermism and its Limits
Is humanity on its way out? It’s hard to say for sure, but the deck is certainly stacked against us. We are currently facing...
Are We Free to Act or Determined by Causality?
This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with them. The...
The Privacy of First-Personal Perspective: Engaging with Indian Philosophy on Cosmopsychism
Imagine coming across a red flower—you will experience it from your own first-person perspective: you may smell its scent, recall seeing it before, and...
How Disability Affects Well-being
What is the relationship between disability and well-being? (In this post, I’ll call this the Relationship Question.) The Relationship Question is both enormously complex...
Step Away from the Chatbot: a Letter to a Student about AI and Creativity
Dear Student,
I’m glad this letter reached you before you fed that assignment prompt from your Creative Writing professor into ChatGPT. I’d like to share some ideas...
The Democratic Perils of Hidden Moderation
Now that we hold a significant part of our discussions on social media platforms, worries and complaints about “shadowbanning”—the act of moderating online speech...
AI, Wicked Problems, and Health Care Distributive Justice
Health care in the United States is extraordinarily expensive. To be precise, in 2024, total health spending in the US was about $5.1 trillion...
Three Varieties of Scientific Engagement: Exploring the Space of Naturalistic Approaches to Philosophy
Much of contemporary philosophy engages in some way or other with science. But what kind of engagement with science is important, and what is...
Looking Without to See Within: The Promise and Problems of Transparency in Self-Knowledge
Most philosophers, and in my experience, many non-philosophers as well, have the intuition that there is something distinctive about the knowledge we have of...
What is philosophy for?
This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with them. The...