Humaning is Hard, but Philosophy Can Help
Erica Lucast StonestreetExploring the philosophy in everyday experiences, because philosophy is everywhere, and it matters. Personal essay-style posts on philosophy, liberal arts, and wonder every Thursday.
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Don Quixote the Existential Hero
This is a reposting of a piece from June 13, 2024, not long after I began Humaning is Hard, But Philosophy Can Help. I’m sharing it now because (1) I need to buy a little time while I wrap up the school year; (2) at that time there were onl...
Gender and Math: beautiful minds, mean girls, and hidden figures
I could have been a mathematician.
But I’m not. I left Carnegie Mellon’s Ph.D. program in Logic, Computation, and Methodology with an M.S.1 I eventually got my doctorate in Philosophy with a specialty in ethics. At the time I left CMU, on...
"It's just not the same": What's the value of authenticity?
I recently had a conversation with my sister about how convenient a robot dog would be compared to our actual (pain-in-the-butt) dog.1 There are already robots that move so much like dogs that it’s hard not to react to them that way; clothe...
What if Frankenstein had cared?
As part of the computer science ethics class that triggered my posts on the moral status of AI, we read Frankenstein. Rereading a rich text always reveals new thoughts to me depending on what else is on my mind. This year, regular readers w...
The moral status of artificial intelligence, part 3: maybe we just shouldn't
I ended last week’s post with the suggestion that this entire discussion might indicate that we should just not build a system that brings us to the point where the moral status of AI becomes an urgent question. I’d like to think this out a...
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I write about the philosophical questions raised by everyday life. Brought to you by two decades of experience teaching philosophy, whatever I'm reading, the view from midlife, good friends, three kids, a supportive spouse, and tea.
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