Nature

Ken’s Unfinished Project

One Sunday in the spring of 2007, John and I walked into the back room of KALW to find Ken singing. Back then I was both Ken’s PhD student and the director of research for Philosophy Talk, so it was always a treat to catch my advisor and boss being playful. He was coming up with different lyrics for Sinatra’s classic “Love and Marriage.”

Hobbes and the Absolute State

公民不应该对自己的治理方式有发言权吗?或者这只是极端主义、分裂和战争的配方?我们需要一个拥有绝对权力的统治者来维持和平吗?本周我们将讨论托马斯·霍布斯以及他对公民身份和国家的看法。

Letting Go of Human Nature

关于人性的观点饱受争议。一些学者——通常是人文学科的学者——认为根本不存在这样的东西,而另一些学者——通常是社会科学和生物科学的学者——则认为“否认”它是反科学的。那么,这个有争议的观点有什么意义呢?

Sexy Beasts

Love it or hate it, Freud’s decades long exploration into the nature and power of human sexuality is something that any philosopher of sex needs to contend with. I turn to this curiously under-explored region of the philosophical landscape in the final installment of my Philosophical Freud series.

The Unnatural is the Political

相信有些事情是自然的,而有些事情是不自然的,这是人类共同思想的一部分,但我们很少停下来思考什么是不自然的。这样做很重要,因为这个概念在政治上非常有效。