Does learning about the inconceivably large universe mean that we must doubt the significance of human life on this planet? Is there a way to account for the intuition that we are just a microscopic blip in the universe and avoid nihilism?
Do you think America is the greatest country in the world? Do you think other countries have bigger problems and worse institutions than ours? Could you never imagine moving to another country?
How will we eliminate racism from all facets of our society, from the institutions to the quotidian interactions? Ibram X Kendi suggests we take people who have been oppressed by racism and give them the positions of power.
雷·布里格斯是斯坦福大学的哲学教授。他们的研究探索了形式模型如何帮助我们更好地推理实践和理论问题;他们对决策理论、测量理论和概率哲学特别感兴趣。除了20多篇哲学文章，雷还出版了两本诗集，并被提名为手推车。
Happy 114th birthday to Theodor Adorno, the influential founder of the Frankfurt School. His writings on culture, capitalism, and fascism are as timely as when they were written.
Debra Satz is the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society at Stanford University and dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences. She is a political philosopher whose work addresses contemporary public policy debates. In addition to authoring many articles and co-editing books, she is the author of Why Some Things Should Not be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Marketsand co-author ofEconomic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy.
Josh Landy is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French, Professor of Comparative Literature, and co-director of the Literature and Philosophy Initiative at Stanford University. He joined the Philosophy Talk team as co-host in 2017 when John Perry retired from the show. Among many other publications, he is the author ofPhilosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in ProustandHow to Do Things with Fictions. He is currently writing a second book on Proust for Oxford’s Very Short Introductions series.
Do bosses operate like mini-monarchs of the workplace? In what ways does your boss have arbitrary, excessive power over your life? Why do we demand democracy in the political sphere, and yet give it up so quickly in the economic?
假设我们的目标是减少整体肉类消费。成为一个素食主义者，不吃肉，还是成为一个弹性素食主义者，只吃一点肉?Alberto Giubilini最近在永昂的一篇文章中为弹性主义做了论证。
Whereas science has accumulated an enormous wealth of knowledge about the world, philosophy hasn't produced conclusive answers to questions posed thousands of years ago. What's the reason for this difference? Could it be that philosophy is just harder than science?
