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October 19, 2022

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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October 2, 2022

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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August 22, 2022

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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July 31, 2022

Can AI write philosophy?

How Jasper AI will shake up education
I tried out Jasper AI, a computer program that generates natural language text. It turns out that it can create near-perfect output that would easily pass for a human-written undergraduate philosophy paper. (more...)
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July 15, 2022
Catherine Greene

Am I irrational?

And how would I know?
People as well as large-scale events, for example the Durch Tulip Mania or the technology crash in the early 2000s, are sometimes said to be irrational. But what exactly do we mean by that? (more...)
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July 1, 2022
Ezechiel Thibaud

What’s Wrong with The Passion Economy?

Adam Davidson’s “The Passion Economy”
Adam Davidson describes the “Passion Economy” in a book released in 2020. This article shows why Davidson’s proposal is not a sustainable solution to fix our current relationship with work. (more...)
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June 23, 2022

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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June 10, 2022
Sofia Jeppsson

Can We Define Mental Health?

Disclaimer: This is an article about the definition of mental health. It is not meant and should not be used as advice on how to treat mental health problems. (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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Stephen Leach

Philosophy and Nuclear Weapons

In 1964, Bertrand Russell wrote that the philosopher’s duty was now to forget philosophy and to study “the probable effects of a nuclear war.” (more...)
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Catherine Greene

I’m depressed and it’s all your fault!

Separating depression from sadness
Are we driving ourselves insane? And have we been doing so for over a hundred years? To understand this, we need to understand how we came to think of ourselves as depressed. (more...)
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Michael Hauskeller

Nothing Matters. Or Does It?

What exactly do we mean when we say that “nothing matters”? More than sixty years ago, the British philosopher Richard Mervyn Hare attempted to answer this question in an early essay. (more...)
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Catherine Greene

If only I hadn’t done that...

Why counterfactuals are misleading
What if the Second World War had turned out differnetly? This article explains why counterfactuals and alternative histories can be misleading. (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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Ezechiel Thibaud

Nudges

The hidden influencers
In a book published in 2008, R. H. Thaler and C. R. Sunstein define nudges as “any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behaviour in a predictable way.” (more...)
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Is Data Science Evil?

What does “Don’t Be Evil” really mean?
Computers have a long history of being associated with evilness. Machine minds without emotions suggest cruelty, unflinching execution of inhuman orders. (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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Catherine Greene

More Aristotle than Galileo?

Artificial Intelligence and scientific discovery
Can artificial intelligence discover new laws of physics? Possibly. An article in Technology Review suggests that data from a swinging pendulum experiment allowed a neural network to discover some of the laws of motion. (more...)
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What is Luddism?

The challenges of modern technology
Luddism is the thesis that technology must serve human life and that often the use of technologies does not make for better or happier societies. (more...)
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Catherine Greene

Asimov’s Psychohistory

The illusive quest to predict the future
Why is it so difficult to make predictions about society? The problem is not the complexity of the task, but the concepts we use to think about the world. (more...)
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Stephanie Mills: Epicurean Simplicity

Is a simple life the key to happiness?
In her book “Epicurean Simplicity,” author and activist Stephanie Mills analyses what is wrong with our modern way of life. (more...)
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Who Needs Cash Anyway?

The ethics of a cashless society
A cashless society seems convenient, but it has severe drawbacks, especially for the least privileged in society. (more...)
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Catherine Greene

What to Do When People Talk #$!!~#

The importance of meaningful disagreement
Can two people’s experiences and outlooks on life be so different that meaningful communication between them is impossible? Recent events suggest so. (more...)
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What Exactly are Affiliate Links?

Helping the sites you love - for free!
Affiliate links are just like normal Internet links, except that inside the link is embedded a little identifying code-word that says that this link was provided by the Daily Philosophy website. (more...)
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History of Robots: From Albertus Magnus to the Blade Runner

The story of our fascination with our own image
From ancient China and the European Middle Ages, to zombies, Frankenstein’s monster and HAL 9000, our literary tradition is full of robots – sometimes helpful, sometimes threatening, and always questioning what it really means to be human. (more...)
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Touching Fish

Is laziness a human right?
Being lazy, far from being something good, would be, for Aristotle, a total failure of a human being and the best way for someone to make sure that they will never reach true happiness. (more...)
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Can Machines Think?

Why it’s so hard to tell
The Turing Test wanted to provide a way to judge whether computers are intelligent, but pretending to be human in a chat is not the same as being intelligent. (more...)
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Epicurus and Luddism

Would we be happier without technology?
Technology, at least in the way that it is deployed in capitalism contradicts the essential simplicity of the ideal Epicurean life. (more...)
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Which Social Media Site Is the Most Ethical?

A case for applied utilitarianism
Social media affect our society in many ways: addiction, democracy, the decline of journalism, privacy, surveillance, and effects on friendships. (more...)
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Is Whistleblowing Ethical?

...and why Confucius might disagree
Whistleblowing might be wrong because it violates one’s obligations to one’s friends, relatives, co-workers or superiors. (more...)
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The Memories of Our Experiences

Daniel Kahneman on the Happiness of Memories
Economist Daniel Kahneman studied the effects of memory on our perception of past experiences. He distinguishes experienced from remembered happiness. (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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Let’s Talk About Love

The complexities of understanding love
Love is a very complex phenomenon that encompasses sex, friendship, self-love and selflessness, as well as God’s love in many religious traditions. (more...)

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