Philosophical Dictionary

In which we discuss Karl Marx's theories of alienation of labor and wage slavery in our contemporary context.

Philosophy has long been dominated by European men, but the love of wisdom shouldn't be exclusive. It's time to open the gates and welcome diverse perspectives into philosophical discourse.

Edmund Gettier published two papers and one review in his career, and one three-page paper showed that a justified true belief can still miss knowledge. Sixty years later the problem has a new setting: feeds sorted for each of us. Does the filter bubble make lucky truths the norm, and what does the research say?

In which we discuss the philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who helmed a powerful Civil Rights movement through the power of nonviolent resistance.

Existence is everything and nothing. How do we know we exist? Or even better, how do we know that other people exist? Something so basic as existence should be obvious, but is it really?  We don’t tend to wonder if...

In which we discuss the 2024 Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year, "brain rot," through the lens of Adorno and Horkheimer's work on the Culture Industry.