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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

Perhaps unshockingly for someone who is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer, Stephen Fry has a deep interest in words and how we use them. After hearing him lecture on that ...

by Matt QvortrupPhilosophy 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we repeatedly watch Hirayama performing the tasks that constitute his daily routine, we slowly come to realize that his simple life is filled with great joy. What’s particularly striking is the ...