I recently read an article in The Atlantic by Tristan Harris, a former Product Manager at Google who studies the ethics of how the design of technology influences people’s psychology and behavior. Continue reading Summary of “How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist”
Kurt Baier (1917 – 2010) was an Austrian moral philosopher who received his DPhil at Oxford in 1952. He spent most of his career at the University of Pittsburgh, authored the influential, The Moral Point of View: A Rational Basis of Ethics
I first tested positive for Covid on Saturday evening, September 3. I had been feeling terrible the previous 24 hours. I got progressively worse over the weekend—I could barely move, ached all over, coughed constantly, felt as if my throat was being cut with razor blades, and ran a fever of 103 (my normal temperature is about 97.) Continue reading My Wife and I Survived Covid
John Rawls’ “Hypothetical” Contract
The Harvard philosopher John Rawls advanced a contractarian moral philosophy in his A Theory of Justice, the most influential philosophical ethics book of the past fifty years. Continue reading The Basics of John Rawls’ Moral Theory
Joseph Brodsky (1940 – 1996)
In his wonderful blog “The Attic,” Bruce Watson, summarized Joseph Brodsky‘s views on boredom in “IN PRAISE OF BOREDOM.” I share the post below with my readers and encourage them to visit Watson’s site. Continue reading In Praise of Boredom