Back to the Machines. We return to the present, where the need to distinguish humans from machines made in our image remains strong. As Paolo Bory argues, technology firms who use the spectacle of ...

In Escape from New York, Snake Plissken wanted to escape federal prison by entering a second prison, New York City, from which he had to escape in turn.We may one day find ourselves in a similar ...

Passive & Active Lying. To further elaborate this dimension, we should mobilize another notion which plays a crucial role in the analysis of today’s ideology: the notion of interpassivity, introduced ...

Digital Philosophy Affirmative Action for Androids Jimmy Alfonso Licon asks, when should we prioritise android rights?. We should begin examining the question of whether there should be affirmative ...

Articles Young & Meaningful Elise Beal notes a Japanese philosophy of finding pleasure in the small things, and matches it with an online trend. “Our generation is so screwed.” I hear it everywhere on ...

Algorithmic Bias & the Problem of Fairness. As artificial intelligence becomes more integrated into our lives, one troubling issue that has emerged is algorithmic bias.This occurs when often ...

Digital Edition News. Ironically, we have some hot news about Philosophy Now’s digital edition.If you are a print or website subscriber to Philosophy Now, or decide to become one, you will now be able ...

The central problem is that the use of AI in the academy poses a threat to independent thinking. It undermines the tension thinking needs for a critical engagement with science and represents the ...

Perhaps unshockingly for someone who is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer, Stephen Fry has a deep interest in words and how we use them. After hearing him lecture on that ...

‘More songs about Buildings and Food’ was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the things rock stars normally don’t sing about. Pop songs are usually about ...

Omar Sabbagh contemplates the use of humor, in fiction, and in life. My work as a novelist and short story writer inevitably involves plenty of moments in which I stare into space. In such moments, I ...

Humour Is Laughter Liberating or Cruel? Alfie Bown investigates different categories of laughter.. Comedy has become a pressure point for contemporary culture. It flares up in debates about censorship ...