The End of the Universe
I have been thinking about time inversion and looked more carefully into arrow of time reversal experiments like the one published in Nature in...
The Mystery of Consciousness Shows There May Be a Limit to What Science Alone...
Last week, our Substack newsletter featured an interview between Philip Goff and the APA Blog's Philosophy and Technology Editor, Charlie Taben. They discussed Philip's...
Breaking ChatGPT to fix Echo Chambers?
1 Introduction
There are many ways that generative AI, such as ChatGPT or AI image generators, relates to social epistemology, not least of which is that...
Philosophy and Bitcoin
1. Philosophy of Money
Money is a paradigmatic functional kind. Anything that fulfills the functions of money counts as money. In this way, money is similar...
Digital Ideology
The digital is material ideology. As the operating principle of the technologies it labels, the digital bears on the world not just in any way...
LuFlot: The first philosopher-powered chatbot
Portraits by Mara Lavitt; Image courtesy of Yale University
Students now have a new tool at their disposal. The Luciano Floridi Bot, also known as...
Engineering and Embodiment
Ideas about technological knowledge (in contrast to technical knowledge and to scientific knowledge) in philosophy of technology provide a powerful lens through which to...
New Conference: The Lyceum Project
This month we reintroduce a friend of the APA Blog, John Tasioulas. John is the director of the Institute for Ethics in AI and has contributed several...
Undermining Autonomy One Swipe at a Time
In the summer of 2017, Hurricane Irma—a monster category 5 hurricane—was bearing down on us. The storm was projected to make a head-on collision...
If We’re Living in a Simulation, The Gods Might Be Crazy
This essay was originally published in Slate.
That we’re living in a computer simulation—it sounds like a paranoid fantasy. But it’s a possibility that futurists,...