What could a revolutionary thinker like Frantz Fanon possibly draw from the political philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, a self-proclaimed anti-egalitarian, anti-democrat, and anti-socialist? Nietzsche clearly influenced Black Skin, White Masks, …
By Timdwilliamson. Creative Commons. On a morning run I came across a sign in the park informing me that the city was “helping nature by controlling invasive plants.” This help …
A free, online summer programme open to all. This 9-week programme, part of the UOI’s Bitesize Ethics series, provides a short introduction to ethical issues directly related to Artificial Intelligence, …
Humans see faces as beautiful: The role of superadditive mechanisms in determining visual content. Selina Guter, MIT Our conscious visual experience presents us with various features of objects: among others, …
Below is the audio recording of Janet Levin’s John Dewey Lecture, “The Road Taken,” given at the 2020 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website …
By https://www.marvel.com/articles/movies/sdcc-2019-all-of-the-marvel-studios-news-coming-out-of-hall-h-at-san-diego-comic-con, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62990603 If you have yet to see the first episode of season one of Disney’s Loki series, this essay contains spoilers. This episode presents some of …
This post introduces a trial blog series called “Practically Prompted” – an experiment in using large language models (LLMs) to write a Practical Ethics blog-style post, with some light human …
Why is Cognition Question-Sensitive? Juan Murillo Vargas (MIT) Author’s note: I no longer believe most of the paper’s claims. But I find the question interesting and worth thinking about, even …
Now that we hold a significant part of our discussions on social media platforms, worries and complaints about “shadowbanning”—the act of moderating online speech without notifying its author—have emerged in …
Billionaires are often lauded in America, but some condemn them as evil simply for being billionaires. This raises the moral issue of whether a person can be morally good and …