The following syllabus is for a virtual 5-week summer course on Moral Psychology forundergraduate students at a public university. The course specifically looked at how one’s racial or gender identity influences the expressions of feelings, like anger, pain, and empathy. Because this was such a short course, I share this syllabus as more of a ..read more

Mouhamadou El Hady Ba is an associate professor of Philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. Professor Hady Ba is also the head of the Philosophy Department and Cheikh Anta Diop University’s Teachers College and the former Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Educational Systems. Dr. Ba describes himself as a ..read more

(Please note: This post contains my personal reflections on my own experiences within my current neighborhood, and as such I believe it is important to acknowledge my positionality. I am writing this post as a white, middle-class cis woman who lives in a primarily residential working-class neighborhood in St. Paul, MN. I cannot and do ..read more

Salomo Friedlaender with his son Heinz Ludwig and his wife Marie Luise (Image has been AI-enhanced). Who isn’t eager to learn more about a philosopher who relished describing himself as a synthesis of Chaplin and Kant?  About the author of a work on Kant used in 1945 by U.S. military intelligence to train 500 German prisoners ..read more

Lately, you cannot walk down a busy street, go to work, eat at a restaurant, workout at the gym, or go grocery shopping without seeing either a Ring light and its accompanying dancer, monologist, storyteller, or a gaggle of influencers—or want-to-be-influencers. As a result, you become a nonconsensual unpaid background actress while trying to go ..read more

“I am still in utter disbelief by Thursday’s verdict. Never in my life did I imagine my own government would charge me as a criminal for exercising my religious liberties and rights to free speech, which are guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. They are trying to stop our voices, put fear ..read more

In 2020, the University of Edinburgh renamed what was then called Hume Tower, removing the name of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume on the grounds that Hume supported slavery and was a racist. Recently, David Ashton and Peter Hutton have written two pieces (here and here, and see also the post on this ..read more

Portraits by Mara Lavitt; Image courtesy of Yale University Philosophy of technology students now have a new tool at their disposal. The Luciano Floridi Bot, also known as LuFlot, is an AI-powered online tool designed to democratize access to philosophical material and foster engagement with the works of philosopher and Director of Yale’s Digital Ethics ..read more

Some time ago, while I was advising a doctoral student regarding her search for an academic position, she showed me her graduate school transcript. I noted that she had been awarded an A in every course but one; in that single instance, she had received a B. When I asked about that anomaly, she replied ..read more

The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce the establishment of the APA AI2050 Prizes, supported by Schmidt Sciences. The APA AI2050 Prizes are awarded in recognition of outstanding philosophical scholarship (including interdisciplinary scholarship that engages philosophical issues) addressing any of the AI2050 Hard Problems. There are two prizes: one for an early-career researcher ..read more