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Ingrid Robeyns is Professor of Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University’s Ethics Institute. Her research spans political philosophy and applied ethics, with a particular focus on justice, inequality, human wellbeing, and economic institutions. She is the author of Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice and her lates
If you ask someone (other than a philosopher) what comes to mind when you say, “the other,” chances are the reply will refer to a monster of one kind or another. In my line of work, as a scholar and teacher of horror studies with a research expertise in the horror film, otherness is a […] The post Becoming the Other: H
Picture a modern, high-tech warehouse. Here, human managers occupy a sort of fallback position: They still exist and still play a kind of supervisory role, but workers receive direction and have their performance monitored through the devices with which they interact. This is algorithmic management, and it can be extre
When ChatGPT first became widely available, many conversations among philosophy teachers centred on a familiar concern: plagiarism. How could we tell whether students had written their own essays? Should AI-generated text be banned? Should we redesign assessments to make cheating more difficult? These are important que
We tend to assume that silence in and around mental illness is harmful and socially imposed. It is an assumption drilled into us by countless mental health campaigns and reams of scholarship warning that people are “suffering in silence” and urging us to “break the silence.” There are of course good reasons for this. S
Akshay Ganesh is a high school senior whose work explores the intersection of philosophy, LLMs, education, and learning. He’s the founder of Deskpad, a nonprofit focused on ensuring AI adoption in classrooms preserves student thinking. He hopes to study philosophy in college with a focus on ethics and education. What e
The world of today is often a messy place, not just because of the havoc we wreak on nature and each other, but also because of the information and misinformation we are bombarded with. Before information technology (IT) and the Internet took over, the availability of too much information was a problem only for privile
Like all institutions, workplaces socialize those of us within them. They provide a kind of informal education, promoting the development of some skills, habits, and attitudes, and frustrating the development of others. This isn’t a new observation, and in some sense, the fact that we are a product of or work is obviou
Slopaganda On February 28, 2026, the U.S. and Israel initiated an armed conflict against Iran. Widely discussed as the first AI-fueled war, the war has engendered many debates on the moral complexity of modern warfare and AI’s role. One of the most interesting progressions is the use of AI to generate propaganda called
Paul Butterfield is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Alfred University in New York. His primary area of research is interpersonal ethics, and particularly the ethics of humor. His recent publications in humor ethics include articles in Hypatia, the Journal of Value Inquiry, and the Southern Journal of Philosophy. W
The term “gaslighting” can be traced back to Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gas Light (adapted into films in 1940 and 1944), in which a devious husband manipulates his wife into believing that she is losing her mind by repeatedly invalidating her experiences, including her perception that the gas lights in their house ar
Psychiatric disorders, variously conceptualized, have always been a part of human life. They typically, but not always, are judged as negative differences from so-called “normality.” Along with this judgment, they are often stigmatized to varying degrees and in various ways. As sociologist Erving Goffman argued back in
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