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Imagine you read Kant. You may disagree with him, you may be bored by his style, but you will persevere, for after all, he has important things to say. Now imagine any narrative fiction: You read a novel, watch a movie or TV series, or read a comic. It has something important to say, yet if you’re bored, you will probably close the book or switch off whatever device you’re us...

Go on, admit it—you use ChatGPT (or something like it) more than you are willing to admit. You use it for all sorts of things, some of which you’re probably even hiding from yourself. No? Fine, then it’s just me. But let me share with you something that occurred to me regarding large language models. A potential justification for their use, if you will. Maybe you can use it o...

Few joys in my childhood memory rival the picking of blackberries under the scorching Greek sun. The rising dust, the dry and hot wind, the curious scurrying insects, and most of all, the sturdy thorns of the blackberry bush could not rival the soft consistency of the berries in my hand, and their sweet, if slightly sour flavor. Being able to feast on our loot with my sibling...

Over the past two decades, we have watched the pillars of public knowledge gradually weaken. John Stuart Mill is probably turning in his grave at this. From social media platforms creating echo chambers and filter bubbles to the flood of user-generated content drowning out expertise to online hostility and ideological policing driving censorship (self-imposed or otherwise), m...

Megan Craig is an artist, essayist, and Associate Professor Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phen...