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 ...

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 ...

Back to the Machines. We return to the present, where the need to distinguish humans from machines made in our image remains strong. As Paolo Bory argues, technology firms who use the spectacle of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Digital Philosophy Affirmative Action for Androids Jimmy Alfonso Licon asks, when should we prioritise android rights?. We should begin examining the question of whether there should be affirmative ...

The central problem is that the use of AI in the academy poses a threat to independent thinking. It undermines the tension thinking needs for a critical engagement with science and represents the ...

In Escape from New York, Snake Plissken wanted to escape federal prison by entering a second prison, New York City, from which he had to escape in turn.We may one day find ourselves in a similar ...

Issue 168: June/July 2025 EDITORIAL AI Think Therefore AI Am. by Rick Lewis. NEWS News: June/July 2025. Renowned Ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre Dies • Thoughts About Happiness • Sex versus Gender in the ...

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