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Philosophy
Interviews with philosophers about their new books.
September 1, 2024
Speaking for Others
We are familiar with the idea of a formal representative, and perhaps the idea of a formal political representative readily comes to mind. Roughly, t…
August 20, 2024
Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy
What can philosophy do? By taking up Black American cultural practices, Devonya N. Havis suggests that academic philosophy has been too narrow in its …
August 10, 2024
Evolution and Development
It was an astounding discovery in the early 1980's that the same genetic sequence, the homeobox, controlled the development of basic body plans across…
August 1, 2024
Political Beliefs
The idiom of contemporary politics is a kind of philosophical hodge-podge. While there’s plenty of talk about the traditional themes of freedom, just…
July 20, 2024
Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path
An influential eighth-century Buddhist text, Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra, or Guide to the Practices of Awakening, how to become a supremely virtuous …
July 10, 2024
The AI Mirror
There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and de…
July 1, 2024
Liberalism as a Way of Life
In political philosophy, “liberalism” is not the name of a particular social platform. Rather, it refers to a framework for thinking about politics. …
June 20, 2024
Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology
Can capitalism be made ecologically sustainable? Can it be good for women? What theoretical approaches help us to grapple with these questions in ways…
June 10, 2024
From Deep Learning to Rational Machines
Artificial intelligence started with programmed computers, where programmers would manually program human expert knowledge into the systems. In sharp …
June 1, 2024
Just Shelter
It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is less frequently recognized that this crisis amou…
May 21, 2024
Freedom's Frailty
Christine Tan argues that the most fruitful way to read the Zhuangzi, if one is seeking political and ethical insight, is through the Jin Dynasty comm…
May 10, 2024
The Ecological Brain
Ecological psychology holds that perception and action are best explained in terms of dynamic interactions between brain, body, and environment, not i…
May 1, 2024
Private Censorship
When we think of censorship, our minds might turn to state agencies exercising power to silence dissent. However, contemporary concerns about censors…
April 20, 2024
A Phenomenology for Women of Color
How can we understand the changing power of race and gender to shape our reality? How shared is reality? Can narratives of experience help us develop …
April 10, 2024
The Weirdness of the World
"What's life for if there's no time to play and explore?" In The Weirdness of the World (Princeton UP, 2024), Eric Schwitzgebel invites the reader to…
March 20, 2024
The Metaphysics of Meditation
In The Metaphysics of Meditation: Sri Aurobindo and Ādi Śaṅkara on the Īśā Upaniṣad (Bloomsbury 2024), Stephen Phillips argues that the two titular Ve…
March 10, 2024
Aesthetic Testimony
A lot of what we claim to know we learn from other people's testimony: they tell us, and in many ordinary contexts that is enough to gain knowledge. B…
March 5, 2024
Social Goodness
In our day-to-day lives, we are subject to normative requirements, obligations, and expectations that originate in the social roles we occupy. For ex…
February 20, 2024
For F*ck's Sake
Swearing can be a powerful communicative act, for good or ill. The same word can incite violence or increase intimacy. How is swearing so multivalent …
February 10, 2024
Biological Essentialism
What makes a species a species? Aristotle answered the species question by positing unchanging essences, properties that all and only members of a spe…