Articles What Simone de Beauvoir Got – And Didn’t Get – About Motherhood Nura Hossainzadeh argues that motherhood is both physical and transcendent. It is often said that becoming a parent is a ...

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Articles Young & Meaningful Elise Beal notes a Japanese philosophy of finding pleasure in the small things, and matches it with an online trend. “Our generation is so screwed.” I hear it everywhere on ...

One doesn’t have to necessarily include a ‘story within a story’, or even a thematization of the process of storytelling within the storytelling, to be reflexive. And even when one does have layers or ...

Humour Is Laughter Liberating or Cruel? Alfie Bown investigates different categories of laughter. Comedy has become a pressure point for contemporary culture. It flares up in debates about censorship, ...

Passive & Active Lying To further elaborate this dimension, we should mobilize another notion which plays a crucial role in the analysis of today’s ideology: the notion of interpassivity, introduced ...

by Matt QvortrupPhilosophy Shorts Philosophers on Holidays by Matt Qvortrup ‘More songs about Buildings and Food’ was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the ...

Perhaps unshockingly for someone who is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer, Stephen Fry has a deep interest in words and how we use them. After hearing him lecture on that ...

The Art of Living The Importance of the Purple Massimo Pigliucci looks for threads of integrity in a morally compromised world. In the tumultuous political landscape of ancient Rome, few stories ...

Digital Philosophy Studying Smarter with AI? Max Gottschlich on sense and nonsense when using AI in academia. Artificial intelligence is becoming an ubiquitous companion in our lives and institutions.

Algorithmic Bias & the Problem of Fairness As artificial intelligence becomes more integrated into our lives, one troubling issue that has emerged is algorithmic bias. This occurs when often ...

One intuition at work in the background here is that androids are synthetic, and thus couldn’t be persons. However, it isn’t clear why their physical constitution should bear on the question of their ...