Philosophical Reflections

The British newspaper The Guardian features a “personal effects” page where readers can ask other readers for advice about how to de...

In the week leading up to Christmas, after several months of abstinence, I’ve finally found the time again to read a great novel, Leo...

Reading Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , I came across the following intriguing passage (in chapter 19), in which Huck tell...

A couple of weeks ago I briefly discussed, prompted by David Levy’s treatment of the issue in his book Love and Sex with Robots , whe...

Here’s yet another tale about a man’s erotic obsession with a female android, or automaton as it used to be called at the time: E.T.A...