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As a part of our Teaching Theory Special Series, First Publics invited Drs. Wesley Longhofer and Daniel Winchester, authors ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming part of everyday life. It helps with tasks like driving cars and answering questions. But AI still has challenges in understanding human behavior, especially ...
The treatment of Sen. Alex Padilla when he was forcefully detained and handcuffed on the ground was shameful and against ...
Deploying sociological theory is a core part of our teaching in cultural studies. Indeed, one of our most prominent theorists and co-founder of the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies, the late ...
Explore the philosophical books that challenge your thinking and deepen your understanding of life, knowledge, and existence.
The strongest defenses of academic freedom derive from arguments for judicial independence and religious liberty, Adam Sitze ...
The Israel-Palestine conflict has exposed Europe’s geopolitical impotence as Israel systematically disregards its values and sovereignty, mirroring ...
What’s left is time—time to pursue what we love, explore creativity, deepen relationships. The dream, it seems, is a life ...
President Trump wants to make it easier to involuntarily treat people with serious mental illnesses, but critics say the ...
When does philosophy degenerate into simple propaganda? In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines the writings of Jürgen Habermas, concluding ...
One prominent theory of basic values is the one proposed by the Israeli social psychologist Shalom Schwartz. Schwartz’s theory of basic human values (or personal values) identifies 10 universal ...
I began studying AI in the mid-1980s. Unusually for a computer scientist of that era, my interest was entirely in information ...