The Kantian Foundations of Democracy aims to provide the first large scale analysis of the theory of democracy of the neglected “Kantian School”. These were philosophers active in Germany in the 1790s, and included Erhard, Bergk, Heydenreich, Reinhold, Tieftrunk, Feuerbach,…
It’s rare for a sequel to outperform the original, but Venom: Let There Be Carnage does so in every possible way. It’s funnier by a mile, the action is much improved and the overall story is considerably more compelling. Plus…
The preferred, most efficient, highest-order form of energy transfer (the premier way for a scene to advance the story in a non-trivial way) is for a beat to cause the next beat, especially if that next beat is felt as…
[Hulda Guzman, “‘come dance’ asked nature kindly”] That’s Alexus McLeod, professor of philosophy and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut, in an interview at The Philosopher’s Eye on the occasion of his becoming editor of The Philosophical Forum. “Through…
Morgan is co-author of a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature that explains how ancient lakes on the red planet became bloated enough to over-top their rims. The resulting massive floods carved deep canyons and valleys into the surface…
She takes up her new position in UCSB’s Department of Philosophy in the fall of 2020. Amanda Greene, currently associate professor of philosophy at University College London, has accepted an offer of associate professor at the University of California, Santa…
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Professor Singer’s longstanding advancement of philosophical arguments that presume the inferiority of many disabled lives is dehumanizing and dangerous. The creation of a hierarchy of lives as a justification for the allocation or denial of limited resources (whether “pleasure,” medical…
There is poetry in Turing’s insight, poetry and cultural defiance, evocative of the protestation Ada Lovelace had issued a century earlier as she composed the world’s first computer program: “Invert the order!” she had demanded of the cultural hierarchy that…
“[The first piece found] was full of scratches and covered in mud,” he said, according to Insider. “I had no idea, so all I could think of was that it looked like the lid of a can of herring.” Vejle…