Recently Published Book Spotlight: Choose Your Bearing
Benjamin P. Davis is a postdoctoral fellow in African American Studies at Saint LouisUniversity. His recent book Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights...
The Great Betrayal: why the Internet became an autocracy and how it may yet...
This post includes excerpts from Vili Lehdonvirta’s book Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control (MIT Press).
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The Internet...
Reports from Abroad: Dr. Rafal Banka
This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalized world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling...
Appreciating the Forest from the Trees
Why do species matter? Many have instrumental value. Some, for instance, are indicator species (e.g. freshwater mussels), some are keystone species (e.g. sea otters (Enhydra lutris)),...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Images of the Present Time
Kenneth Reinhard is Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at UCLA and a longtime translator of the work of the French philosopher Alain...
Why we can’t resolve the scientific realism debate—and why we should believe in science...
Philosophical works about scientific realism often point to public trust in science as a key motivating consideration. The intuitive idea is that if we...
Overcoming Cognitive Bias with Algorithms
This is a revised text of a lecture given at King’s College in March 2023
The judgments of human beings can be biased; they can...
Failed experiments in sex and marriage: Dora Russell on the ‘right to sex’ for...
In the 1920s, Dora Russell, second wife of Bertrand, proclaimed that all women have a ‘right’ to sex, which she detailed in terms of...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Philosophy and Science of Risk
Philosophy and Science of Risk is a new book written by Isabelle Peschard, Yann Benétreau-Dupin, and Christopher Wessels. Combining insights from a variety of disciplines, it...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Thoughtful Images
Thomas Wartenberg is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College. He has edited or co-edited books on the philosophy of art, the philosophy...