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• A Big-data Contribution to the History of Philosophy

  

  The history of philosophy is generally written by subject experts who explore and follow a tradition of thought about which figures and topics were "pivotal" an... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2020 SOCIETY

• ABM Models for the COVID-19 Pandemic

  

  In an earlier post I mentioned that agent-based models provide a substantially different way of approaching the problem of pandemic modeling. Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2020 SOCIETY

• Alternative Social Systems and Individual Wellbeing

  

  Communism ...or Capitalism?A joke from Poland in the 1970s: "In capitalism it is a question of man's exploitation by man. In communism it is the reverse. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2020 SOCIETY

• Defining the Philosophy of Technology

  

  The philosophy of technology ought to be an important field within contemporary philosophy, given the centrality of technology in our lives. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2020 SOCIETY

• Thinking About Pandemic Models

  

  One thing that is clear from the pandemic crisis that is shaking the world is the crucial need we have for models that allow us to estimate the future behavior... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2020 SOCIETY

• Good Government and the Pandemic

  

  Governments at multiple levels are making decisions that affect all of us in ways that really matter. Our health may be protected, or we may contract a serious... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2020 SOCIETY

• Right-wing Extremism and the Covid-19 Crisis

  

  No one needs to be brought up to date on the devastation already wrought by Covid-19, in the United States, in Europe, and in other parts of the world, and... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2020 SOCIETY

• Did Marx Invent "class Conflict"?

  

  Marx offered several theories of the modern world that he observed around him in mid-nineteenth-century Britain that have influenced much of turmoil that... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2020 SOCIETY

• The Democratic Dilemma of Trust

  

  In 2007 Chuck Tilly published an intriguing historical and theoretical study of the politics of equality and voice, Democracy. Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2020 SOCIETY

• Social Factors Driving Technology

  

  In a recent post I addressed the question of how social and political circumstances influence the direction of technological change (link). Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2020 SOCIETY

• The Malthusian Problem for Scientific Research

  

  It seems that there is a kind of inverse Malthusian structure to scientific research and knowledge. Topics for research and investigation multiply geometrically... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2020 SOCIETY

• Literature and Memory

  

  As a way of finding some interesting distraction in the social isolation of Covid-19 I have been reading Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2020 SOCIETY

• Thomas Hughes on Electric Power as a Sociotechnical System

  

  We have quite a few ideas about how technology affects us personally and socially. But we are less aware of the ways in which facts about the contemporary socia... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2020 SOCIETY

• Gross Inequalities in a Time of Pandemic

  

  Here is a stunning juxtaposition in the April 2 print edition of the New York Times. Take a close look. The top panel updates readers on the fact that the city... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2020 SOCIETY

• Brass on anti-Muslim Violence in India

  

  The occurrence of anti-Muslim violence, arson, and murder in New Delhi last month is sometimes looked at a simply an unpredictable episode provoked by protest... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2020 SOCIETY

• A Course on Democracy and Intolerance

  

  I am teaching a brand new honors course at my university called “Democracy and the politics of division and hate”. The course focuses on the question of the... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2020 SOCIETY

• An Existential Philosophy of Technology

  

  Ours is a technological culture, at least in the quarter of the countries in the world that enjoy a high degree of economic affluence. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2020 SOCIETY

• Explaining Large Historical Change

  

  Great events happen; people live through them; and both ordinary citizens and historians attempt to make sense of them. Examples of the kinds of events I have i... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2020 SOCIETY

• The Assault on Democracy by the Right

  

  A democracy depends crucially upon a core set of normative commitments that are accepted on all sides -- political parties, citizens, government officials,... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2020 SOCIETY

• Fascist Attacks on Democracy

  

  The hate-based murders of at least nine young people in Hanau, Germany this week brought the world's attention once again to right-wing extremism in Germany... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2020 SOCIETY