Monthly Archives: August, 2024

Is There a Silver Lining to Algorithm Bias? (Part 1)

In a world where AI’s reach continues to expand, the challenge of managing algorithm bias has become increasingly apparent. The recent missteps by Google's...

Mistaking Good Looks for Goodness: Yusuf Dikeç and the Halo Effect

You can’t miss it. Turkish marksman, Yusuf Dikeç, has gone viral. People are praising his cool demeanor and ‘novel’ ‘effortless’ technique. What does this...

Failure, Camaraderie, and Shared Embodied Learning

I have taught philosophy in all types of schools, from community colleges to nationally- ranked research universities. I’ve also coached youth cycling (albeit briefly)...

What We Talk About When We Talk About “Personhood”: A Critical Review of Menkti’s Moral Man

In the recently published Menkiti’s Moral Man, Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe defends the late Ifeanyi Menkiti’s communitarian theory of personhood. According to this theory, “A...

The Irrational Status of the Natural

One of the great antagonisms of the 21st century is that, as culture accelerates into increasingly artificial and commodified forms, manufacturing simulacral financial institutions...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Inquiry Under Bounds

David Thorstad is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, Senior Research Affiliate at the Global Priorities Institute, Oxford, and Research Affiliate at the...

APA Member Interview: Russ Shafer-Landau

The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...

On Divestiture, Steven M. Cahn

The mission of a college or university is to develop and transmit knowledge. Doing so effectively calls for maintaining an atmosphere of free inquiry...

Epistemic Doubt: A dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago

My Introduction to Indian Philosophy course has been my favorite since I first began teaching in 1998. I have religiously taught the class, without...

Making Womanness Striking: Salience-based Tensions in Socially Progressive Initiatives

you will always end up philosophically on the subject of your gender simply because you will be seen as a woman first and...

A Letter on Dealing with Imposter Syndrome

Dear Potential Graduate Students, As part of one of my undergraduate courses, we were assigned to reflect on imposter syndrome, how it affected us, and...

Are You Anthropomorphizing AI?

People frequently anthropomorphize or personify technology, ascribing characteristically human or personal features, states, or abilities to technological artifacts. These might include properties falling under...

How I got to Questions

In December 2013, I defended my dissertation. As joyous as it was, it was most notable for sparking the beginning of a pedagogical transformation....

Defining and Determining Human Death

Since a groundbreaking 1968 report, vigorous debate has ensued regarding how we ought to conceptually define and clinically determine when a human being has...

New Series: AI and Teaching

Questions about the relationship between information technology and education are among the oldest in philosophy, dating back to Plato’s famous criticisms of writing in...