Growing Older and The Value of Intergenerational Bonds
For old age to be understood differently, our whole life needs rethinking. And so, too, the philosophy that is humanly satisfying.
The Coming Robot Rights Catastrophe
Time to be a doomsayer! If technology continues on its current trajectory, we will soon be facing a moral catastrophe. We will create AI systems...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Self-Improvement
Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, and the former Vice Dean of the Faculty of...
Complete Philosophy Is Personal: We Relate to Each Other
As many of us head into the new year, perhaps it’s worth remembering how philosophy is personal.
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.