Culture
The Robot and the Philosopher
Sophia wasn’t particularly talkative that evening. Earlier that day, she’d been onstage at the conference I was attending and had been…
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philosophers
Culture
What We Talk About When We Talk About Dignity
When the Albanian political philosopher Lea Ypi was growing up, her grandmother, Leman Ypi, would tell her that during her honeymoon—which…
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Can AI think? Here’s what Greek philosophers might say
In my writing and rhetoric courses, students have plenty of opinions on whether AI is intelligent: how well it can assess, analyze,…
Culture
Clare Carlisle and the Genre-Bender
Clare Carlisle, a British philosopher and an award-winning biographer, is fascinated by books that relate the inner lives and…
Culture
Why Is Gratitude So Difficult?
“Does Gratitude to R for φ-ing Imply Gratitude that R φ-ed?” isn’t a question we often ask ourselves on Thanksgiving. Translated into…