His essay on silence in Consolations harmonizes this sentiment: Drawing on his superb collection of short semantic-lyrical essays, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words (public library), he has created a series of poetry-driven guided broadenings of…
The winners of the 2020 prize are Helen Beebee (Manchester) and Alex Kaiserman (Oxford) for their essay “Causal Contribution in War.” Revisionist approaches to the ethics of war seem to imply that civilians on the unjust side of a conflict can…
UPDATE: There’s an ungated version here, and supplemental materials (including more data than that which is discussed in the article) here. Additionally, they found that being more politically right-leaning was associated with several philosophical views, such as theism, free will…
On the eve of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Rosalie Edge, in her dress and her greying bun, walked across Central Park to the twenty-fifth annual gathering of the National Association of Audubon Societies. There, she calmly rose from…
Like many departments around the country, mine is discussing which policies (if any) we should adopt concerning online teaching moving forward. Since there is a dearth of evidence on teaching philosophy online, I thought it made sense to collect some…
A teen comedy-horror-thriller with a dash of social commentary. What a combo! Get Duked! follows three slacker students, one nerd and their mundane teacher as they head to the Scottish Highlands to attempt to win an award involving navigating the…
Jordan writes: You cannot solve for the use of one side of the body over the other, so there is no single voice that emits from it. You cannot solve for the harmonics of a dual body, facing each other,…
Verizon customers across Southern California have complained of an hours-long outage taking out their mobile service Tuesday afternoon and causing calls to drop. People from LA down to San Diego and Coachella have complained on Twitter about the issues since…
This seems as if it was written for our era, in which an important problem of public discourse is its focus on snippets of speech and ideas detached from knowledge of their context, their motivation, and the whole person behind…
Siri, Apple’s voice assistant on more than 1 billion iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watch models, has had a woman’s voice as the default since the software was added to its popular smartphone in 2011 with the release of the iPhone 4S. Though Siri…
They (and their projects) are: The National Humanities Center (NHC) has announced its class of residential fellows for the 2021-22 academic year, and it includes two philosophers. They will be in residence at the NHC in Research Triangle, North Carolina,…
This sets the tone for Stowaway. It’s subtle. It’s sparse. The camerawork is unhurried. The shots linger. The music glides and tingles. The production design builds a near-present-day spaceship that looks designed to be genuinely functional rather than creepy and…