PRIVACY POLICY

In a time where the equality of individuals is being questioned in troubling ways, Prof Michels reviews Paul Sagar's 'Basic Equality'.

Examining the causes behind the 2024 UK riots, Dabbagh considers the impact of misinformation, inequality and psychological mechanisms.

Even if Donald Trump's idea of absolute presidential immunity is absurd, immunity itself is not, as Plato understood.

Polarisation and division plays out over social media. Tragically, it rarely delivers the sense of belonging that leads us to argue online.

TW: sexual violence Sex robots, which are artificially intelligent (AI) technology encased in physical bodies that resemble human...

The need for an Israel/Hamas ceasefire transcends the immediacy of political gains when anchored by longtermist moral imperatives.

Sadomasochism shares many features with domestic violence. Is it possible to legitimately consent to either?

AI models known as GANs are now being used in the fashion industry. But can they attain human levels of creativity?

In a surprising turn of events, Javier Milei, a self-described “anarcho-capitalist,” has been declared the winner of Argentina’s recent...

Former FED chairman Paul Volcker once said that “about every ten years we have the greatest crisis in 50 years”. 2023, it seems, will not...

Derek Parfit (1984) asks us to consider two scenarios. In the first, a war kills 99% of the world population. This event, Parfit urges,...

Effective altruism is a movement that believes we should help others as much as possible. This may sound like a bland statement of the...

How the profit motive stages a theatre of ethics washing in Artificial Intelligence There is a burgeoning wave of start-ups and tech...

OnlyFans is a content subscription platform that gives content creators the space to upload sexy (although not necessarily explicit)...

2022 has been a rollercoaster for ‘longtermism’. This is the idea that to do the most good, we need to help not only people who exist ...

Meet Professor P. Professor P seems to be the prototypical egalitarian: she is engaged in anti-racist and feminist activities, explicitly...

Why does the moral philosophy of effective altruism attract so many millionaires, including Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel?

Epistemic Uncertainty and Data-Driven Policy Making Policy driven by data and science represents the gold standard amongst politicians of...

Many complain about the power of party members to select leaders. I argue that, in fact, they should be more empowered.

As protests continue to unfold in Iran, Hossein Dabbagh asks: what responsibilities do international citizens have towards Iranians?

In the recent Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion, the majority...

The Elizabethan age is over. Like when Nietzche declared that ‘God is dead’, we Brits face an existential moment that is ours to define

What is the purpose of universities? Do they exist to solve practical problems, or for some higher ideal?

Blake Lemoine, a software engineer who has worked at Google for seven years, was assigned to a project testing LaMDA, one of the...