Philosophical Reflections

We used to think that we humans were free and the machines we constructed determined and unfree. But this is no longer so. Today, in a curi...

The first volume of Günther Anders’s Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen (The Obsolescence of Man) was published more than fifty years ago, in...

I recently attended a talk which debated the question what a machine must be like in order to qualify as a genuine moral agent. The answer ...

I am currently attending a four-day conference on "The Posthuman" in Rome, which is about to end today. Since the attendees are q...

I have long avoided reading anything by Michel Houellebecq. Although I had come across Houllebecq’s name occasionally in the context of tra...

The Marquis de Sade was perhaps not much of a philosopher, but what philosophy there is in his work is clearly the brain-child of the enlig...

The Philosophy in the Boudoir or, The Immoral Mentors , ironically subtitled Dialogues Aimed at the Education of Young Ladies and pu...