philosophy

#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»
#1065 Daniel Williams: Is the Science of Misinformation Reliable?

Feb 28, 2025

Dr. Daniel Williams is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He works mostly in the philosophy of mind and psychology. His primary research interest at the moment is on how various forms of irrationality and bias are socially adaptive, enabling individuals to achieve social goals that are in conflict with epistemic goals. More»
#1064 Costica Bradatan - In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility

Feb 27, 2025

Dr. Costica Bradatan is a Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA, and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. Dr. Bradatan is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, among which In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (2023). He is currently at work on two new book projects: Against Conformity and The Prince and the Hermit. He is the Philosophy/Religion Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the founding editor of two book series: “Philosophical Filmmakers” (Bloomsbury) and “No Limits” (Columbia University Press). More»
#1061 Lauren Ross: Causation and Explanation in Science

Feb 20, 2025

Dr. Lauren N. Ross is an Associate Professor in the Logic and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of California, Irvine. Her research concerns explanation and causation in biology, neuroscience, and medicine. This work involves interrelated projects that address: the nature of explanation in these sciences, different causal structures and explanation types, and the rationale that guides particular forms of causal reasoning in these domains. More»
#1059 Christopher Hoyt: Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Mind, and Religion

Feb 14, 2025

Dr. Christopher Hoyt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Carolina University. His research interests include Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of film. More»
#1058 Marc Steen: Ethics for People Who Work in Tech

Feb 13, 2025

Dr. Marc Steen works as a senior research scientist at TNO, a leading research and technology organization in The Netherlands. He worked at Philips and KPN before joining TNO. He is an expert in Human-Centred Design, Value-Sensitive Design, Responsible Innovation, and Applied Ethics of Technology and Innovation. His mission is to promote the design and application of technologies in ways that help to create a just society in which people can live well together. He is the author of Ethics for People Who Work in Tech. More»
#1056 Elena Ziliotti - Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory

Feb 7, 2025

Dr. Elena Ziliotti is an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Delft University of Technology. She works on Comparative political theory, focusing on debates in contemporary Confucian and Western political theory. She is the author of Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory. More»
#1054 Kathryn Nave - A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life

Feb 3, 2025

Dr. Kathryn Nave is a Leverhulme Trust early career research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on developing a realist account of autonomy and agency, grounded in the uniquely metabolic existence of living systems, and upon critiquing the machine concept of the organism in light of this distinctive material instability. She is the author of A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life. More»