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March 2, 2025 Luka Zurkic and Andreas Matthias The Myth of Thinking Machines Two Opinions on the Dangers of AI Artificial intelligence applications cannot fundamentally shape human existence; they cannot model, transform, or design our experiences in truly novel ways. (more...)
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...)
February 8, 2025 Petrică Nițoaia How to lose friends and influence people Logical fallacies and their use Who does not know that feeling when a discussion becomes unfair, as if sabotaged? You make a good point, but suddenly the person you’re talking to says something odd, absurd or irrelevant. (more...)
December 7, 2024 John Shand Human Extinction An Even More Modest Proposal Would it matter if the entire human race became extinct? (more...)
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...)
Christopher Tricker Can Philosophy Save Us? EGO Hey, Philosophy. How can you help ensure the future of humanity? PHILOSOPHY (more...)
Nella Leontieva We and They Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
Deanna S. Lee A “Philos” of We . Shortlisted entry for the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024. (more...)
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...)
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...)
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...)
John Young Myers Verdict We, the Jury, duly impaneled and sworn, upon our oaths, do find the defendant, of her own free will, as to Count One, guilty of First-degree Murder. (more...)
Özlem Karakus Irvin Yalom: The Spinoza Problem Book review Irvin Yalom’s (b. 1931) The Spinoza Problem: A Novel (Basic Books 2013) intertwines history and philosophy, offering a fresh perspective on two distinct but connected lives. (more...)
Avery Warfield How Many Cows Does It Take? Navigating the Trolley Problem's Moral Dilemma Here, instead of five people versus one person, the trolley is heading toward N cows and diverting it will kill one person. (more...)
Christopher Belshaw Still Against Veganism A reply to Petrică Nițoaia My question was – and still is – a short good life with a pain free death, or no life at all, which would you prefer? A reply to Petrică Nițoaia. (more...)
Ian James Kidd The Hermit of the Lonely Loch Aspiring hermits have many motivations. Smith eloquently testifies to his reasons, some of them deeply personal. (more...)
Daniel Sadasivan Boltzmann Brains and Epistemology Entropy can be calculated with a concept called multiplicity. The multiplicity is the number of indistinguishable possibilities that could cause the results we observe. (more...)
Petrică Nițoaia Embracing Kindness The Moral Argument for Veganism Ethical arguments against veganism are examined and refuted. (more...)
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...)
Andreas Matthias James Tartaglia: Inner Space Philosophy Book review Tartaglia’s sometimes uneven exploration of how philosophy could be popularised is hugely amusing and entertaining at places, but it also has parts that don’t quite live up to its promise. (more...)
Catherine Greene It's OK to Major in English or History ...and you might even save the world Just because we can automate something doesn’t mean that we won’t pay over the odds for an analogue version. (more...)
