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Should you be grateful to nature?
In this post, Max Lewis (University of Helsinki) discusses their recent article in Journal of Applied Philosophy about the kinds of gratitude appropriate for our relationship with nature. If someone...
View ArticleDo you think you can do politics innocently?
There are many illuminating ways to understand politics, but one is as the practice of attempting to shape and direct the collective life of one’s community. Those who do politics typically seek to...
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The four-legged therapist: Why getting a pet to improve our mental health may...
Every once in a while, I read news articles about the mental health benefits of owning pets. These articles always leave me feelings uncomfortable. They seem to ignore what appears to be obvious: these...
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The Ethics of Keeping Pets: Why Love is Not Enough
Photo by Eric Ward on Unsplash I have been thinking about the ethics of keeping sentient animals as pets. As someone who has lived with dogs, cats, rats, mice, gerbils, rabbits, lizards, guinea pigs,...
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Listening to executive dysfunction
Chatting with an UK psychologist over a pint, I asked if the UK, like my native Finland, currently struggles to accommodate the large number of women coming to the clinic with ADHD symptoms. He...
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Confucius’s Mistake, and Plato’s
This year I decided to put some Chinese philosophy on our curriculum, and I’ve been enjoying getting to know that tradition. But there’s something frustrating about classical Chinese political...
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Visions of desirable futures for Iran after the Mahsa revolution
This post is part of a series entitled: “The Mahsa revolution: a political philosophy and futures studies perspective” The goal of this series is to offer readers reflections on the on-going...
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Ukraine Benefit Conference: ‘What Good is Philosophy? The Role of the Academy...
Aaron Wentland (Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King’s College London) is organizing a major online benefit event for the Ukrainian academy on 17 and 18 March, entitled: ‘What Good Is...
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Turning Fear Into Anxiety
Zsuzsanna Chappell argues that the transformation of fear into anxiety is another example of how the concerns of some members of society are systematically dismissed. I originally wrote this post just...
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More of a Royalist than the King and More of a Republican than Robespierre:...
This post is the second in a series entitled: “The Mahsa Revolution: A Political Philosophy and Futures Studies Perspective” The goal of this series is to offer readers reflections on the on-going...
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Slow boring or endless weeding? Metaphors for politics
It’s easy to get sick of politics. So much wasted effort. So many stillborn schemes and plans that go nowhere. So much running to stand still. But if you’re running to stay in place on a treadmill,...
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Why schools should teach that it’s okay to be LGBT
In this post, Christina Easton (University of Warwick) discusses their recent article in Journal of Applied Philosophy about the value and appropriate shape of LGBT-inclusive education. Image by...
View ArticleStudent use of ChatGPT in higher education: focus on fairness
From the long-form essay to concise term definitions, ChatGPT can be an apt tool for students in completing various assignments. Yet many educators balk at its use: they emphasize that ChatGPT makes...
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Teaching through experiences – Interview with Stephen Bloch-Schulman
A traditional classroom scene The way I like to put it is students in a philosophy classroom are regularly given answers without having the questions, and by having that experience first they have a...
View ArticleThe Mahsa Charter: In Search of Unity for the Iranian Opposition
This post is the third in a series entitled: “The Mahsa Revolution: A Political Philosophy and Futures Studies Perspective” The goal of this series is to offer readers reflections on the on-going...
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The Ethics of Keeping Pets: Why Love is (Still) Not Enough
Concerned about climate change? Worried about environmental degradation? Want to protect local wildlife? Then you should think twice before purchasing a pet. Image by wayhomestudio on Freepik In a...
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On the Reception of the Mahsa Charter in Online Deliberative Spaces
This post is the fourth in a series entitled: “The Mahsa Revolution: A Political Philosophy and Futures Studies Perspective” The goal of this series is to offer readers reflections on the on-going...
View ArticleAttribution fallacy, incentives, and income inequality
It is difficult to read anything on the justification of high salaries these days without running into catch phrases such as “the hunt for talent”, “attracting the best people to this job”, or...
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