If we invent a machine with a personality and desires, does it deserve freedom?
Would You Use Performance-Enhancing Drugs?
February 18, 2013 By 5 Comments
Is it ethically defensible to “treat” a healthy individual so that he can excel in a given career? Is it ethically defensible to deny him that treatment?
Bringing Sexy Back to Postmodern Philosophy
January 9, 2013 By 5 Comments
Is this 39-year-old Irish author badass enough to continue the legacy of Foucault and Derrida?
The Four Types of Men: Part II – The Philosopher
December 12, 2012 By 6 Comments
These days, our philosophers are comedians, writers, religious leaders, professors, and teachers. People today don’t respect classical philosophers like they used to. I think it’s a shame, because there are a lot of admirable traits to The Philosopher.
The Meaning of Life
November 11, 2012 By 14 Comments
Jeff Swain’s new column on The Good Life explores the myths that tell the story of what it is to be a human being.
Porn Star Philosophy
October 7, 2012 By 15 Comments
What do porn stars communicate through their tattoos?
Why Mitt Romney Isn’t Wrong
October 4, 2012 By 15 Comments
Mitt Romney let slip the big debate/campaign secret: you can’t win or lose, much less be right or wrong. It’s nothing but a word game on top of a mess of details that will make all the seemingly impossible big points work out in the end.
The Good Mind Project: Absurd Implications of Godwin’s Law
July 29, 2012 By 17 Comments
So you’ve decided to invoke Godwin’s Law during an Internet flame war, huh? Nathan Zimmerman explains why you need to think twice about that.
Talking Tesla
July 18, 2012 By 2 Comments
Thomas Edison was a bully. That’s why you’ve barely heard of the hero of Rave’ Mehta’s new graphic novel, The Inventor: Nikola Tesla
One Dollar, Two
July 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This is a mad-capped, in-the-tradition-of-modern-art depiction of a notice I received from my bank, Wells Fargo, telling me that my account had, imagine, been inexplicably compromised, but through the bank’s humble, heroic and unremunerated efforts, no one was able to pilfer from me the $4.27 I keep in my checking account, so that I might feel secure.
Technology, Inequality, and Health
June 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
What should a good man think about the possibility that technological improvements will lead to widening levels of inequality? Nathan Zimmerman explains.
The Man Who Kant Lie
June 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
How can being a good man complicate the Prisoner’s Dilemma?
My Many Near Death Experiences
June 6, 2012 By 1 Comment
The tombstones remind us: we all suffer, we all triumph. We all die.
“These men did not expect to live, and now they are learning how to try and live again.”
This comment is by Adam McPhee on Kile Ozier’s post, “Good Grief”.