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 ...

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.

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 ...

Philosophy 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 things rock stars ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Digital Philosophy Rescuing Mind from the Machines Vincent J. Carchidi agrees with Descartes and friends that our ability to use language creatively distinguishes our minds from computers. The study ...

Just as we were going to press we heard the sad news of the passing of Glasgow-born moral and political philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. His most famous book After Virtue (1981) is widely considered a ...

Phenomenology, a philosophical approach invented by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), focuses on our lived experiences as a way of understanding the world. Husserl’s disciple and successor in the ...

Digital Edition News Ironically, we have some hot news about Philosophy Now ’s digital edition. If you are a print or website subscriber to Philosophy Now, or decide to become one, you will now be ...

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 ...