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Begging & power
Much philosophical work has examined both imperatival and non-imperatival forms of address that aim to motivate others to action. But one such kind...
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Metaphysical explanation and the cosmological argument
A premise of the Leibnizian cosmological argument from contingency says that no contingent fact can explain why there are any contingent facts at...
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Husserl’s concept of transcendental consciousness and the problem of AI consciousness
Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenological philosophy, developed the concept of the so-called pure transcendental consciousness. The author of...
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Caricature, recognition, misrepresentation
Caricature undeniably excels at mocking people and their foibles. But is this mode of depiction limited to human beings? Can animals, objects, or...
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The phenomenology of dwelling in the past post-traumatic stress disorder & oppression
This article explores the idea that there is a spectrum of individuals who feel compelled to dwell in the past, either due to psychological or social...
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Space and perceptual boundaries
In consideration of the spatial structures of sensory experiences, an ‘Externality Thesis’ is commonly proposed, according to which awareness of...
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Facial profiling technology and discrimination: a new threat to civil rights in liberal democracies
This paper offers the first philosophical analysis of a form of artificial intelligence (AI) which the author calls facial profiling technology...
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Safety’s coordination problems
The safety conception of knowledge holds that a belief constitutes knowledge iff relevantly similar beliefs—its epistemic counterparts—are true. It...
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Incommensurability and healthcare priority setting
This paper argues that accepting incommensurability can be a useful step for develo** attractive hybrid theories to how to distribute scarce...
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When should one be open-minded?
It is widely believed among philosophers and educated people that it is virtuous to be open-minded. Instead of thinking of open-mindedness as...
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An unjustly neglected theory of semantic reference
There is a simple, intuitive theory of the semantic reference of proper names that has been unjustly neglected. This is the view that semantic...
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Against the singularity hypothesis
The singularity hypothesis is a hypothesis about the future of artificial intelligence on which self-improving artificial agents will quickly become...
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States’ culpability through time
Some contemporary states are morally culpable for historically distant wrongs. But which states for which wrongs? The answer is not obvious, due to...
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In Defense of Introspective Affordances
Psychological and philosophical studies have extended J. J. Gibson’s notion of affordances. Affordances are possibilities for bodily action presented...
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Natural Concepts and the Economics of Cognition and Communication
This article takes a cognitive approach to natural concepts. The aim is to introduce criteria that are evaluated with respect to how they support the...
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Knowing What One Likes: Epistemicist Solution to Faultless Disagreement
In this paper, I argue that the phenomenon of faultless disagreement for predicates of taste may be fruitfully explained by appealing to the...
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Framing the predictive mind: why we should think again about Dreyfus
In this paper I return to Hubert Dreyfus’ old but influential critique of artificial intelligence, redirecting it towards contemporary predictive...
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Unfulfilled habits: on the affective consequences of turning down affordances for social interaction
Many pragmatist and non-representational approaches to cognition, such as the enactivist, have focused on the relations between actions, affectivity,...
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The salience of things: toward a phenomenology of artifacts (via knots, baskets, and swords)
What things mean to us involves more than what they afford in a straightforward sense (e.g., motor affordances). One can think of bodily adornments,...
