philosophy

What ethical dilemmas are people facing in their daily lives related to the pandemic or social distancing?

How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with anxious times?

How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with anxious times?

How do notions like care, compassion, and empathy change the way we view our obligations to others?

Was Machiavelli an unscrupulous theorist and advisor, or one of the most widely misunderstood political philosophers ever?

In an ideal society, would we even need money?

April is National Poetry Month, so a philosopher might ask: Can we come to know things poetically that we couldn't get at through other forms of thinking, writing, and talking?

Holy metapysics, Batman!

How do you construct a coherent identity when you don’t feel like you fit in anywhere?

Is retirement just an evil scheme invented by capitalists to get rid of higher-paid workers?

Can mere words create a toxic climate in which violence is condoned and encouraged?

What movies of the past year challenged your assumptions and made you think about things in new ways?

Is the midlife crisis nostalgia for lost youth, or the fear of old age (or both)?  

Do the things we call 'trash' say more about those things or about us?

Is the self just a fiction we create to make sense of a complicated world?

What will life be like when every road you travel, every device you own, every building you enter is connected to the internet?

Can we still lead productive, meaningful lives if the demand for human labor disappears?  

What could be controversial about a movement insisting that Black lives matter too? 

Is the internet destroying language?

Have we entered a post-truth era in which politicians and "news" outlets can lie without consequence?

Is there a place in democratic society for comedy that finds humor in people's deepest identities?

We don't have only one friend at a time, so why have only one lover at a time?

The laws of physics determine how things in the cosmos change. But what would happen if the laws themselves changed?

If humans are so rational, then how come we're subject to so much unconscious bias and error?

Can we trust an algorithm to make morally responsible driving decisions?

Could rational communication really be the true key to real democracy?   

If humans have human rights because they’re persons, are there some nonhumans who are also persons with nonhuman rights?

What rights should undocumented immigrants have?

What is the goal of a belief: to make you feel better, to make you successful, or to track the truth?

What do citizens owe the state? What does the state owe its citizens?