John Rawls' A Theory of Justice is an extremely important work of contemporary liberalism that sets up the theoretical framework for a defense of liberal social contract deontology. Michael Sandel, a communitarian, tries ...

White horse problem is a famous proposition in pre-Qin dynasty elaborated by Gongsun Long in 白马论, White Horse Dialogue. The reason that this problem is interesting to scholars is because that it might testify the existence ...

Nietzsche writes "The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed—the deed is everything" (GM I:13). And yet, though Nietzsche's rejection of the theoretical import of ‘doers' in favor of an account of ‘deeds' is clearly a ...

Contemporary political philosophers studying the effects of race approach it as being fundamentally a force of differentiation and oppression, taking a thoroughly Rousseauian approach to inequality as based in society ...

This essay aims to employ a deconstructive understanding of identity and representation in order to identify what an ethical approach to representation should look like, especially with regard to the empowerment of minority ...

The philosophy of Artificial Intelligence is beset by an intolerable deadlock. In an attempt to answer the question of whether computers can perform the same actions as humans, many philosophers have posited varying ...

Derek Parfit argues that normative anti-realism, the thesis that all normative truths are dependent on our normative attitudes, is a form of Nihilism, the thesis that nothing matters. I shall argue that Parfit is right: ...

My senior essay is aimed at asking whether artificial agency is possible, and examining the ethical ramifications of an affirmative answer. In the course of my paper, I accept that agency ought to be defined on a continuum ...

This paper seeks to dissolve the apparent epistemological tension posed in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics between, on the one hand, the infallibility of the knowledge-state we are in when we know scientific first principles, ...

The aim of this paper is to examine what Heidegger identifies as the danger of modern technology and to understand how art can possibly be an antidote to this present danger. Heidegger’s concern about modern technology ...