Featured Wes Siscoe | 28 Mar 2023 Moral Education in an Age of Ideological Polarization: Teaching Virtue in the Classroom Is the cultivation of character beyond the scope of the schoolhouse?
Why Bother with Political Arguments? Is there any hope for winning friends and influencing people? 27 Jan 2023 | Victor Kumar & Joshua May
Is Academic Philosophy Pointless? How might we best explain the purpose of the discipline? 26 Jan 2023 | Benjamin Rossi
Being Antisemitic to Be Anti-White: On Chappelle and Baldwin There are reasons to doubt the subversiveness of deploying these tropes. 14 Dec 2022 | Roman Altshuler
Potential Lives Can Matter, but Only Through Actual Lives (Pt. II) What are the implications of preferring one source of potential life over another? 2 Dec 2022 | Luke Roelofs
Potential Lives Can Matter, but Only Through Actual Lives Where does a potential child's moral weight come from? 1 Dec 2022 | Luke Roelofs
FTX, Effective Altruism, and Ends Justifying Means Doesn't the focus on expected utility and the greater good encourage behavior like this? 15 Nov 2022 | Jeff Dunn
Torture and Ticking Bombs Walzer's hypothetical scenario is a dangerous fiction that threatens real harm. 11 Nov 2022 | Edward Hall
Z-Library and Digital Piracy Can the presumed harms be outweighed by the democratization of information? 10 Nov 2022 | Evan Arnet
To Slay Affirmative Action, Justice Alito Discovers Racial Skepticism There is more to our recognition of race than essentialism or colorblindness. 7 Nov 2022 | Benjamin Rossi
Why Speciesism Is Not a Prejudice Speciesism and racism have much less in common than we typically assume. 5 Oct 2022 | Benjamin Rossi
Fantastic Beasts and How to Categorize Them How can we ensure that the list of beings in our moral community is neither too big nor too small but just right? 9 Sep 2022 | James M. Okapal
She-Hulk: Superhero? If responsibility tracks capability, then what makes a superhero so super? 26 Aug 2022 | James M. Okapal
State of Surveillance: Should Your Car Be Able to Call the Cops? All-seeing eye? For all its convenience, technology often betrays us. 23 Aug 2022 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Book Bans, the First Amendment, and Political Liberalism How do we tell which books facilitate or frustrate childhood education? 2 Aug 2022 | Benjamin Rossi
Insurance, Natural Disasters, and the Relevance of Luck How do we determine those who deserve more than a mere helping hand? 21 Jul 2022 | Daniel Burkett
The Curious Case of LaMDA, the AI that Claimed to Be Sentient What characteristics are required for a thing to demonstrate consciousness? 22 Jun 2022 | Daniel Story
Law Enforcement, Role-Based Duties, and Bodily Autonomy Can anyone actually be morally obligated to put themselves in harm's way? 3 Jun 2022 | Megan Fritts
The Philosophical Underpinning of “War Crimes” Statutes At what point do acts of aggression violate the norms of permissible wartime conduct? 12 Apr 2022 | Nicholas Kreuder
Whose Rights Matter for Gender-Affirming Care? Who is it that recent legislation aims to protect when it outlaws medical assistance? 21 Mar 2022 | Cargile Williams