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Technology & Transformation

Helena Moradi looks at changing philosophical attitudes to technology.

Nostalgia, Morality, & Mass Entertainment

Adam Kaiser finds a fine case of mass existential longing.

The Best Criticism of Ethical Egoism

Stephen Leach gives you an unbiased reason why you shouldn’t be selfish.

Metaphysical Skepticism

Jacob Bell argues that we can’t determine the ultimate nature of reality.

Kant on Time

Letizia Nonnis unfolds Kant’'s conception of the nature of and experience of time.

Solving the Mystery of Mathematics

Jared Warren says, think of a number. What exactly are you thinking of?

John Locke & Personal Identity

Nurana Rajabova considers why, according to John Locke, you continue to be you.

Austin & 'Reality'

Will Bynoe on milk, therapy, and the nature of being.

The Association of Philosophy Teachers Conference Report

Paul Moore-Bridger reports from an exciting new frontier for philosophy.

Uncertainty Made Measurable

Rob Selzer sizes up a human confidence interval.

Should We Take Vagueness Seriously?

Apostolos Syropoulos argues that vagueness is a virtue, sometimes.

The Six Core Virtues

Massimo Pigliucci finds six ethical ideals shared by all cultures.

On Being One With Nature

Niki Young tells us how we (humans) can look at our relationship with Nature in a way that neither alienates us from it nor indistinguishably absorbs us into it.

Will the Real John Locke Please Step Forward?

Hilarius Bogbinder shows how Locke's intellectual identity changed over time.

Back to the Sophists

Nana Ariel corrects the record and the modern application of Sophistry.

Can You Be Both A Moral Rationalist & A Moral Sentimentalist?

Andrew Kemle says that evolutionary forces give us the answer.

Ethical Truth in Light of Quantum Mechanics

Myles King contends that physics helps us understand ethics.

Right & Wrong About Right & Wrong

Paul Stearns argues against moral relativism and moral presentism.

Who's To Say?

Michael-John Turp asks if anyone has the authority to establish moral truth.

The Cognitive Gap

Justin Bartlett explores a basic distinction between understandings of ethics.

Chamfort (1740-1794)

Martin Jenkins looks at the life of a wry observer of society, cut short by that society's revolutionary turmoil.

Descartes & Stupidity

Trevor Pateman asks: stupidity - essence, or accident?

The Urgency of Art

Sam McAuliffe thinks that art offers another way of thinking.

Hannah Arendt On the Spectre of Nuclear War

Maurits de Jongh finds our contemporary situation reflected in earlier states.

Hap & Happiness

Stephen Anderson meditates on misfortune and meaning.

Can Machines Be Conscious?

Sebastian Sunday Grève and Yu Xiaoyue find an unexpected way in which the answer is 'yes'.

What's Stopping Us Achieving Artificial General Intelligence?

A. Efimov, D. Dubrovsky, and F. Matveev explore how the development of Al is limited by the perceived need to understand language and be embodied.

Arguing with the Chinese Room

Michael DeBellis says Searle's famous argument about computers not having understanding does not compute.

Al & Human Interaction

Miriam Gorr asks what we learn from current claims for cyberconsciousness.

What it Means to be Human: Blade Runner 2049

Kilian Pötter Introduces the big ideas and problems around artificial consciousness.