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, and was one of the most important moral philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. Continue reading Kurt Baier “The Meaning of Life” →

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 →

Luigi penned these thoughtful replies to my recent post about boredom in life. Continue reading Reply to “Is Life Boring? →

Do we get bored with everything? Do friends and lovers, work and play, and even life itself eventually become dull and tedious? Does dissatisfaction with people and projects always set in? Continue reading Is Life Boring? →