Philosophical Disquisitions

[Note: This is the text of a talk I delivered to the AI and Legal Disruption (AI-LeD) workshop in Copenhagen University on the 28th Sep...

 In this episode I talk to Shannon Vallor. Shannon is the Regis and Diane McKenna Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Santa Clar...

The Stag Hunt of the Elector Frederick the Wise In his 1754 work Discourse on Inequality , Rousseau introduced a short hypothetical s...

Is our moral circle expanding to include robots? I've written quite a number of pieces about this topic over the past year or so. ...

[A]gainst the palpably sophistical proofs of Leibniz that this is the best of all possible worlds, we may even oppose seriously and ho...

I am a pretty pessimistic person.* At least that’s what I am told. I rarely see a silver lining without a cloud. When things are goin...