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Tag: Philosophy

Lewis Gordon and Nathalie Etoke discuss the space for freedom opened up by Black existentialist thought.

Lewis Gordon, Nathalie Etoke

Generative AI has made it possible to create lifelike models of real people. Should we?

Mala Chatterjee

Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.

David J. Chalmers

In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine. 

Daniel Williams

Amna Akbar talks with Bernard Harcourt about his new book—and how we can build on existing forms of cooperation to transform society.

Anthony Morgan, Amna A. Akbar, Bernard E. Harcourt

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Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.

Christine Sypnowich

Feminist arguments against body modification are a dead end.

Becca Rothfeld

Martha Nussbaum on her new book—and why a full development of our humanity requires developing our capacities to care for animals.

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Martha C. Nussbaum

Despite debates about scientific certainty, we do not need 100 percent consensus on a scientific claim to accept it as true. 

Jana Bacevic, Peter Vickers

Reflecting on three monumental works of modernism a hundred years on.

Johanna Winant

Trans-inclusive policies are essential, but efforts to establish them must not lose sight of the structural oppressions that trans people face. 

Robin Dembroff, Paisley Currah

Where is the line between professional philosophy and self-help? And how did we end up with this stark divide?

Kieran Setiya, Anil Gomes

To discern why we fight, we should ask why we do not.

Chris Blattman

Feminist philosophers Kate Soper and Lynne Segal discuss the unsustainable obsession with economic growth and consider what it might look like if we all worked less.

Anthony Morgan, Kate Soper, Lynne Segal

Epiphanies can prompt us to view the world differently, a new book contends. But they are no substitute for ethical and political debate.

Rachel Fraser

Science is always undertaken from a definite point of view, a new book concedes. But it enlarges our knowledge of the world through the interplay of different perspectives.

Philip Kitcher

What if “post-growth living” could be an opportunity for greater pleasure, not less?

Joshua Cohen, Deborah Chasman

In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death. His arguments are shaky.

Kieran Setiya
The wide-ranging philosopher had the uncanny ability to bring very different traditions into conversation.
Seyla Benhabib

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