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...
Roe v Road: Freedom of Movement and the Future of Automated Travel
In February 2025, Adriana Smith, who was about nine weeks pregnant at the time, was declared brain dead by doctors. However, the state of...
Intelligence is Always Artificial
For Hegel, intelligence is always artificial. Indeed, there is nothing "natural" about understanding, consciousness, nor intelligence itself.
We say certain behaviors come naturally to us. Most of...
Phenomenal Accuracy and Vivid Memory
Here’s a tempting way to categorize our experiences, at least at first. On the one hand, let’s call some aspects of our experience "objective."...