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The philosopher who named the 'hard problem' of consciousness asks whether what we converse with is the model or a character the model is enacting. He does not close the door on machine consciousness.
World Desk · 20 August 2026 · David Chalmers
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Butler gave the keynote at the GSSI Symposium on 23-25 April 2026. In February she spoke to an audience of some two hundred at WashU on 'Who's Afraid of Gender?'.
Judith Butler
The new book by the Erasmus University philosopher of technology asks whether machines can be moral, and whether there is an algorithm for perpetual peace.
Yuk Hui
The author of After Virtue died in 2025 at the age of 96. His thesis that the modern moral vocabulary is a heap of unintelligible fragments is still being argued over.
Alasdair MacIntyre
The philosopher who named epistemic injustice used the 2026 Uehiro Lectures to examine how moral demands shape people. She also gave this year's Dewey Lectures at Columbia.
Miranda Fricker
The Michigan philosopher used her Pufendorf Lectures, delivered on 11-13 May 2026, to argue that the language of market freedom erodes political freedom.
Elizabeth Anderson
Oxford's emeritus Wykeham Professor of Logic is a visiting professor at Yale in 2026. A congress titled 'Williamson Encountering Chinese Philosophy' takes place in Shanghai in November.
Timothy Williamson
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The Union Theological Seminary philosopher told Al Jazeera that both major parties serve entrenched power. He gave a series of university lectures across the United States in the spring.
Cornel West
