philosophy

#1091 Vlasta Sikimić: Cognitive Diversity in Science, and the Ethics of AI

May 1, 2025

Dr. Vlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focus is on Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of AI, Empirical Philosophy, Logic, Science Policy, and Animal Ethics. More specifically, she works on data-driven approaches to optimization of scientific reasoning. Previously, she worked at the Weizsäcker Center (University of Tübingen), the Institute for Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Belgrade), she was an associate member of the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology (University of Belgrade), etc. More»
#1089 Alexander Thomas: The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism

Apr 25, 2025

Dr. Alexander Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Media Production and Film at the University of East London. He is the author of The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism: Techno-Human Evolution and Advanced Capitalism. More»
#1085 Joshua Glasgow - The Significance Impulse: On the Unimportance of Our Cosmic Unimportance

Apr 17, 2025

Dr. Joshua Glasgow is Professor in (and Chair of) the Philosophy Department at Sonoma State University. Dr. Glasgow works on a variety of topics in moral, political, and legal philosophy. His publications have covered a variety of issues concerning ethics, the good life, race and racism, language, law, mind, and more. His latest book is The Significance Impulse: On the Unimportance of Our Cosmic Unimportance. More»
#1084 Patrick Hassan: The Pilosophy of Suicide

Apr 14, 2025

Dr. Patrick Hassan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University. His primary areas of interest are moral and existential philosophy. Currently, I work on 19th century philosophy (particularly Nietzsche and Schopenhauer), ethics and its relation to aesthetics, and environmental philosophy. He is the author of Nietzsche's Struggle against Pessimism. More»
#1080 Tristan Rogers: Conservatism, Past and Present

Apr 4, 2025

Dr. Tristan Rogers is a philosopher, author, and teacher. He teaches Logic and Latin at Donum Dei Classical Academy in San Francisco. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 2017. He works in political philosophy, ethics, and ancient philosophy. He is the author of Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction. More»
#1077 Blaine Fowers: The Science of Virtue

Mar 28, 2025

Dr. Blaine Fowers is Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Miami. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. His primary scholarly interest is in exploring the ethical dimension of psychology, both in research and practice. He is coauthor (together with Bradford Cokelet and Nathan Leonhardt) of The Science of Virtue: A Framework for Research. More»
#1071 Marina García-Granero: Nietzsche, the Genealogical Method, the Death of God, and Nihilism

Mar 14, 2025

Dr. Marina Garcia-Granero is an Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Valencia. She is a former postdoc from the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven in Belgium, where she worked in 2022 as an Associate Member of the ERC Project “Homo Mimeticus.” She has recently co-edited, along with Nidesh Lawtoo, a collective volume titled "Homo Mimeticus II: Re-Turns to Mimesis" (Leuven University Press, 2024). She is a Nietzsche scholar currently working on nihilism and teaches ethics and feminist philosophy. She is a member of multiple Nietzsche societies, including the Friedrich Nietzsche Society (United Kingdom), the HyperNietzsche International Research Group, and the Spanish Society for Nietzsche Studies (SEDEN). More»
#1070 Cláudia Passos Ferreira: The Development of Consciousness and Morality

Mar 13, 2025

Dr. Cláudia Passos Ferreira is an Assistant Professor of Bioethics at New York University. Dr. Passos Ferreira has published on philosophy, psychology, and neuroethics. She has collaborated in cross-cultural research on moral development and social cognition (on topics such as empathy, fairness, ownership, intersubjectivity). Her current research program focuses on the development of consciousness, including what theories of consciousness say about infant consciousness and machine consciousness, and how these theories shed light on ethical issues. More»
#1069 Todd May: Should We Go Extinct?

Mar 10, 2025

Dr. Todd May is Professor of Philosophy at Warren Wilson College. He is a political philosopher who writes on topics of anarchism, poststructuralism, and post-structuralist anarchism. He is the author of eighteen books of philosophy, most recently Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times. More»
#1067 David Benatar - Very Practical Ethics: Engaging Everyday Moral Questions

Mar 6, 2025

Dr. David Benatar is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa. He is best known for his advocacy of anti-natalism in his book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, in which he argues that coming into existence is a serious harm, regardless of the feelings of the existing being once brought into existence, and that, as a consequence, it is always morally wrong to create more sentient beings. His latest book is Very Practical Ethics: Engaging Everyday Moral Questions. More»