from Moral Responsibility: An Introduction Matthew Talbert Arts & Culture, Philosophy From Moral Responsibility: An Introduction by Matthew Talbert, published by Polity Press in 2016. Reproduced by permission. This excerpt is from Chapter One (“Responsibility, Moral Responsibility, and Free...
Has Philosophy Lost Its Way? Massimo Pigliucci Arts & Culture, Philosophy One of the characteristics of philosophy as a field of inquiry is that — unique among human endeavors — it also inquiries upon itself. This was true since the times of Socrates and Epictetus, of course....
Plato and Aristotle on the American State Bruce K. Adler Philosophy, Politics & Economics What seems to have been forgotten is that one reads past theories, not because they are familiar and therefore confirmative, but because they are strange and therefore provocative. ... What we should expect...
Philosophy as Chicken Soup: About the Cyber-café-philo Adrianisima . Arts & Culture, Philosophy Adriana's piece is the winner of our 2015 Academic Contest. Esther Charabati, coordinator of the oldest café-philo in Mexico City, defines café-philo as a space built on ideas, opinions, and doubts of...
Caredroids and the Future of Growing Old Angela Roothaan Arts & Culture Recently, the online magazine, Good, suggested robots may be the future of elder care. But how will these caredroids change the way we understand what it means to “care”? And how will they change the way...
How Much Do We Really Know about Animal Consciousness? Angela Roothaan Philosophy, Politics, Politics & Economics, Science, Science & Medicine What defines the boundary between humans and animals? The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness states that “comparative research on this topic is naturally hampered by the inability of non-human animals,...
Plato Studied in Africa: The Case for Culturally Inclusive Philosophy Angela Roothaan Philosophy, Society & Culture I studied philosophy in the Netherlands in the 80s. Almost no one criticized the western-oriented curriculum. Recently, however, scholars have begun to question how philosophy can leave so many non-western traditions of thought aside.
