Interview

Singer at eighty, with an AI of his own: has the good-life question changed?

The world's best-known applied ethicist has moved back to Melbourne, given up rejecting capitalism outright and launched a chatbot trained on his own writings. The question he has been putting for fifty years is unchanged: how should we live? What has changed is the world in which it is asked.

Peter Singer

Agnes Callard: what does taking Socrates for a sceptic conceal?

The Chicago philosopher objects, in Open Socrates, to the familiar portrait: Socrates was not a sceptic but an intellectualist. In conversation with Merve Emre she explains why the distinction matters — and why philosophy cannot be done on one's own.

Scott Shapiro: what happens to legitimacy when law becomes code?

The Yale philosopher of law argues that the real question artificial intelligence raises for law is not efficiency but power. Even when rule-based systems give the right answer, 'legal reasoning' becomes an appeal to authority once the reasoning can no longer be followed by a human.

Scott J. Shapiro

Cornel West: 'The United States is facing moral collapse and democratic decay'

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