Entropy and Aging
Aging is something sentient beings do. We humans not only grow old, but obsessively reflect on the meaning of aging, its unwelcome impositions on...
To Assess Technologies, Bioethicists Must Take Off Their Blinkers
The following piece was originally published in the Hastings Center Report (September-October)
A casual review of the literature reveals mainstream bioethics’ love affair with biomedical technologies:...
Reports from Abroad: Dr. Hsiang-Yun Chen
This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalized world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: How to Be Authentic
Skye C. Cleary, who holds a Ph.D. and an M.B.A., is a philosopher and author who teaches at Columbia University and the City College of...
Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch on Insight and Attention
Sometimes when we’re trying to answer a question, it’s clear how we should go about addressing the question. Right at the outset, we can...
What Can’t Be Learned in School (“Working on the World”)
What is it to responsibly work on the world? Some college students want to know.
Norwegian Pessimistic Anti-Natalism
This post is a part of an ongoing biweekly series on philosophical pessimism and related positions. You can find other posts in the series...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Making Space for Justice
Michele Moody-Adams is Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University, and the author of Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality,...
Pessimism and Human Extinction
This post is a part of an ongoing biweekly series on philosophical pessimism and related positions. You can find other posts in the series...
Reports from Abroad: Dr. Mouhamadou El Hady Ba
This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalised world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling...