Understanding Society

Some philosophers and others have imagined that human beings are largely fixed in their most fundamental capacities -- their "human nat...

Moral philosophers have often written of ethical obligations, principles, and theories as if they were timeless and unchanging. Kant, for ex...

Here is a hard question. Can the creators of television shows and other kinds of pop culture be understood sometimes to pose fundamental and...

image: Philoctetes injured on Lemnos How can the atrocities of the twentieth century lead to the creation of a better version of humanity? O...

Recent posts have focused attention on the topic of the evils that occurred in the twentieth century: genocide, deliberate mass starvation, ...

Many examples of technical disasters have been provided in Understanding Society , along with efforts to understand the systemic dysfunc...

I've been seriously interested in the question of character since being invited to contribute to a volume on the subject a few year...

image: Stanford prison experiment John Doris argues in Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior that the basic theory of acti...

If we want to have a more adequate theory of the actor ( link ), we need to broaden our understanding of the factors and capacities that a...