Humanity Violated
August 20, 2017
People tend to treat other people who differ from them, even in seemingly small and…
What Is Game Theory?
August 16, 2026
Game theory is a set of mathematical techniques for thinking about how people should choose when their choices interact. But real people aren’t exactly rational actors. Can a mathematical model explain real-world decisions? How can game theorists account for the fact that we don’t always…
Transformative Experiences
August 6, 2017
We are faced with decisions all the time in life. Normally, we think about the…
The Fairness Fixation
July 23, 2017
Imagine that your eight-year-old son arrives home boasting that he won the race that day…
Philosophy as Therapy
July 9, 2017
From Plato and Sextus Empiricus to Wittgenstein, many important thinkers have thought of philosophy as…
Summer Reading List 2017
July 2, 2017
Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Hannah Arendt’s The Origins…
Racial Profiling and Implicit Bias
June 18, 2017
Whether for counterterrorism measures, street level crime, or immigration, racial profiling of minorities occurs frequently.…
Second-Guessing Ourselves
June 11, 2017
We like to think of ourselves as self-aware, reflective beings, but psychological studies demonstrate that…
Babies and the Birth of Morality
May 21, 2017
Doing the right thing is often an extremely difficult task. Yet psychological research indicates that…
The Phenomenology of Lived Experience
April 23, 2017
Phenomenology is the philosophical study of experience and consciousness, performed by philosophers ranging from Sartre…
Remixing Reality – Art and Literature for the 21st Century
April 16, 2017
For decades, literary critics have been questioning the relevance of the novel as a literary…
Captivity
April 9, 2017
Whether it’s people incarcerated in prisons, or animals confined in zoos, aquariums, laboratories, farms, and…
Anatomy of a Terrorist
March 26, 2017
Since George W. Bush first declared a “war on terror,” the US has been engaged…
Art and Obscenity
March 12, 2017
What do Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, and Andres Serrano have in common? They’ve all created…
The New Surveillance Society – Big Brother Grows Up
February 19, 2017
Recent revelations confirm what many already suspected: not only is Big Brother watching you, he…
Tainted by the Sins of Our Fathers?
January 29, 2017
Imagine discovering that your grandfather was a serial killer. Would you feel guilty about it?…
The Examined Year: 2016
January 8, 2017
Our annus horribilis is over. But what ideas and events took shape in 2016 that challenged our assumptions…
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