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May 9, 2025
Sabahat Fida

Bridging Kant and Hijab

From modesty to moral autonomy
From a Kantian lens, reducing a person to their appearance or sexuality treats them as a means to visual pleasure, not as a rational being. (more...)
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March 22, 2025
John Shand

Moral Statements and Truth

Moral value statements involve putting things in some order of worth, significance, or importance. (more...)
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March 8, 2025
Rony Guldmann

Fat Acceptance and Vaccine Rejectionism

Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Nemen sparked a firestorm in October 2021 when he posted on Linkedin that America hadn’t been paying enough attention to obesity’s role in aggravating Covid’s dangers. (more...)
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February 21, 2025
Cassandra Brandt

An Impediment to the Body... Not the Will

A Sedentary Stoic's Thoughts on Disability and Resilience
Following my injury, I was bombarded by an overload of emotions: my anger over my entitlement to everything I’d lost, my deep and dark depression, my horror and fear of a future as a complete quadriplegic. (more...)
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December 7, 2024
John Shand

Human Extinction

An Even More Modest Proposal
Would it matter if the entire human race became extinct? (more...)
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November 23, 2024
Paulo Antunes

Ensuring Humanity’s Future

Lessons from Play, Sport, and Game
I see myself and a multitude of other Grasshoppers engaged in playing the most elaborate, subtle, and challenging games. (more...)
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November 18, 2024
Christopher Tricker

Can Philosophy Save Us?

EGO Hey, Philosophy. How can you help ensure the future of humanity? PHILOSOPHY (more...)
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November 9, 2024
Nella Leontieva

We and They

Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
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November 3, 2024
Deanna S. Lee

A “Philos” of We

. Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
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October 25, 2024
Daniele Fulvi

Philosophy and the Climate Crisis

Thinking Clearly to Help Ensure the Future of Humanity
Philosophy and the Climate Crisis. Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
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October 18, 2024
Daniel Gregory

The Surprising Threat to Human Society

How can philosophy help ensure the future of humanity? Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
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October 12, 2024
John Shand

In Praise of Misinformation

There have been increasingly clamorous calls for the banning, removal, or controlling, or censoring of ‘misinformation’ as an enforced general policy. (more...)
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F. Andrew Wolf Jr

Liberty, Democracy, Justice

Can the Center Hold?
In the Republic, Plato speaks of society in metaphorical terms as “our city of words.” The dialogue is essentially about justice as a human virtue. (more...)
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Abortion: The Unconscious Violinist Argument

Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion
Is abortion ethical? Philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson created one of the most well-known thought experiments in modern ethics. In her 1971 paper “A Defense of Abortion,” she presents the thought experiment of the unconscious violinist. (more...)
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Jean Arnaud

Jean Arnaud on AI and the Future

Philosopher Interviews
Interview with Jean Arnaud, a pioneer of the digital renaissance in art, philosophy, technology, and education. (more...)
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Stephan Renart

The Case for Feeding the Surfers

Philippe Van Parijs’s Argument for Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Income, or UBI, implies the regular, universal, unconditional transfer of an equal sum of money to all eligible citizens. (more...)
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Cave, Peter

Israel’s Attack on Gaza

Some philosophical reflections
Philosophical reflections about Israel’s response to the 7th October 2023 attack by Hamas, exposing inconsistencies, poor reasoning and immoralities, with a final touch of Kant and Nietzsche. (more...)
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David Charles

The Surprising Ethics of Climate Change

Given that climate change is, quite literally, an existential problem, it’s strange that we’re not all rushing to solve it. (more...)
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Coronation: The Captivating Story of Monarchies

Moore and Gillette on what makes a king
In this article, which accompanies the third in our series of philosophy videos, we look at the spiritual side of royalty. (more...)
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Andreas Matthias

Should a Liberal State Ban the Burqa?

Book review
Should a Liberal State Ban the Burqa? by Brandon Robshaw, is a very clear, instructive and carefully argued book that shows off philosophy at its best. (more...)
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Luke Roelofs

When Does a Fetus Have Rights?

What sort of rights should a fetus or embryo have? A clear, comprehensive review of the arguments. (more...)
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Are We Allowed to Destroy Art?

Jimmy Carr is taking a hammer to Hitler
A new TV show fronted by Jimmy Carr will destroy artworks from artists ranging from Picasso to Hitler. Is this a bad thing? We look at the arguments for and against destroying art for entertainment. (more...)
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Stunning AI-Generated Art

How it works and what it means
A sample of AI art generated by Stable Diffusion. Is AI generated art different from human art, and is it art at all? (more...)
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How Free is Free Enough?

Ronald Dworkin on free speech and censorship
Today, we are confronted with the need to weigh free speech against other values like inclusivity, respect and tolerance. We look at the arguments of philosopher Ronald Dworkin in defence of free speech. (more...)
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Is Abortion Ethical?

The main arguments
Is abortion morally right? We look at the main arguments for and against abortion. (more...)
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When Is an AI System Sentient?

Blake Lemoine and LaMDA AI
How can we tell whether an AI program “thinks” or “feels”? In the recent debate of Blake Lemoine’s claims about LaMDA, a functionalist approach can help us understand machine consciousness and feelings. (more...)
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Sofia Jeppsson

Can We Define Mental Health?

Can we draw a line between people with psychiatric disorders and those without? (more...)
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The Principle of Double Effect

Philosophy and current affairs
Should we teach philosophy to young people when accounting would be better for them? Is driving a car morally bad? Meet the doctrine of Double Effect. (more...)
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David Villena

Deepfakes, deception, and distrust

Epistemic and social concerns
The main epistemic concern in the light of the potential ubiquity of deepfakes is not that we are going to be massively deceived. Global distrust and not global deception could be the ultimate consequence of deepfakes. (more...)
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David Cockayne

Confucianism and Just War

Since governments are charged with pursuing the popular well-being and not state power or prosperity, wars of aggression are illegitimate. - David Cockayne on how classic Confucianism would see wars. (more...)
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The Ukraine Conflict: Conduct in War

Philosophy and current affairs
What are the laws that apply during a war? We discuss the jus in bello and the requirements of discrimination, proportionality and necessity. Just War Theory applied to the current conflict in the Ukraine. (more...)
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The Ukraine Conflict and the Ethics of War

Philosophy and current affairs
What are the moral rules for war, how can wars be justified and are we obliged to help a country that has been attacked? Just War Theory applied to the current conflict in the Ukraine. (more...)
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Roman Yampolskiy on the dangers of AI

Philosopher interviews
Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Louisville, speaks about the future of AI. (more...)
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Sofia Jeppsson

Retributivism and Uncertainty

Why do we punish criminals?
Why do we have a criminal justice system? What could possibly justify the state punishing its citizens? Retributivism is the view that we ought to give offenders the suffering that they deserve for harming others. (more...)
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Emanuele Costa

Inventing the New World

Can AIs have intellectual property?
For the first time in history, an AI called DABUS has been granted a patent in South Africa. This article analyses the metaphysics of attributing inventions to non-human agents. (more...)
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Roman V. Yampolskiy

The Uncontrollability of AI

The creation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise, but with it also comes existential risk. (more...)
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Seven Reasons to Outlaw Recreational Drugs

The main arguments
Should we legalise recreational drug use? This article explains seven arguments against legalising recreational drugs. (more...)
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Six Reasons to Legalise Recreational Drugs

The main arguments
Should we legalise recreational drug use or not? This article explains the most important six arguments in favour of the legalisation of recreational drugs. (more...)
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Vaccination Ethics

Can the state force us to get vaccinated?
Vaccination ethics is a surprisingly rich field of philosophical inquiry, and it covers issues from all major moral theories, reaching into world politics, poverty, the role of the state and the morality of taxation and car seat belts. (more...)
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What Is a Fair Share of Life?

The Fair Innings Argument in bioethics
The “Fair Innings Argument” assumes that there is such a thing as a fair share of life. But can we compare different lives in this way? (more...)
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The Ethics of Organ Transplants

Can you kill one to save many?
Are we ever allowed to kill one in order to save many lives? Utilitarianism would look at the overall benefit and conclude that this might be permissible. (more...)
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Peter Singer's Drowning Child

Are we required to save lives if we can?
Peter Singer’s Drowning Child thought experiment: If, on the way to the office, we saw a child drowning in a pond, would we think that we have to save it? (more...)
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The Ethics of Eating Meat

Four moral theories and their views
Eating small quantities of meat that was grown in a sustainable way might be morally justifiable, while large-scale animal farming is probably morally wrong. (more...)
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Is it stupid to hoard toilet paper?

Sometimes, weird behaviours can be rational
It is too often assumed that hoarding commodities in a crisis is irrational and that everyone would be better off if nobody was hoarding things. But there are arguments to the contrary. (more...)
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