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Summer Reading List 2023
What Is Gender?
Can Art Save Us?
True Contradictions
The Power of Prediction
Derek Parfit and Your Future Self
The Philosophy of Smell
The 2023 Dionysus Awards
Cancel Culture
Why Trust Science?
The Examined Year: 2022
Thinking Like a Conspiracy Theorist
In Search of Proust’s Philosophy
Liberty and Justice for Who?
Climate Change and Collective Action
Who Owns Culture?
Effective Altruism
What Is Political Inequality?
Is Optimism Rational?
Summer Reading List: Banned Books Edition
The Changing Face of Antisemitism
The Scandalous Truth about Memoir
What Is Ideology?
What Would Kant Do?
Why Poetry Matters
The 2022 Dionysus Awards
#MeToo: Retribution, Accountability, and Justice
Righteous Rage
Marcus Aurelius
Could Robots Be Persons?
The Examined Year: 2021
What Can Virtual Reality (Actually) Do?
Should All Ages Be Equal?
The Social Lives of Robots
Frege and the Language of Reason
Akan Philosophy and Personhood
The Mysterious Timelessness of Math
The Ethics of Awesomeness
Microaggressions
Referring to the World: Ken’s Final Work
Your Brain on Literature
Summer Reading List 2021
Nonduality and the Oneness of Being
The Lives and Ideas of the Vienna Circle
Disinformation and the Future of Democracy
Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
The 2021 Dionysus Awards
What Is Masculinity?
What Has Replaced Freud?
The Rhetoric of Big Tech
Democracy By Numbers
The Examined Year: 2020
Minds and Matter
The Arts For All?
Are We All to Blame?
What’s In a Game?
Why We Hate
Science and Skepticism
Citizenship and Justice
The Merits of Meritocracy
Can Streets Discriminate?
The Ethical Jerk
Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World
Pet Ethics
Time for Summer Reading
Covid Conundrums and Moral Dilemmas
Comforting Conversations, pt.2
Comforting Conversations, pt.1
(Why) Money Matters
Philosophy and the Superhero
The 2020 Dionysus Awards
Is the Self an Illusion?
Death of the Sentence
Comedy and the Culture Wars
Ken Taylor Tribute
Sanctuary Cities
Hobbes and the Ideal Citizen
Conscious Machines
The Allure of Authoritarianism
Explanation At Its Best
Changing Minds on Climate Change
Reading the Troubled Past
The Doomsday Doctrine
Is Postmodernism Really to Blame for Post-Truth?
Summer Reading (and Misreading)
J.S. Mill and the Good Life
The Limits of Tolerance
What Is Religious Belief?
Is Philanthropy Bad for Democracy?
Authority and Resistance
Hacking the Brain: Beyond the Five Senses
Immigration and Multiculturalism
The 2019 Dionysus Awards
What Do We Owe Future Generations?
Envy: Vice or Virtue?
The Examined Year: 2018
Foreign Aid – or Injury?
Foucault and Power
The Creative Life
Does Reputation Matter?