Talbot Brewer is professor of philosophy at the University of Virginia and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He is the author of The Retrieval of Ethics and The Bounds of Choice: Unchosen Virtues, Unchosen Commitments.
The development of AI reads less like a familiar chapter from the history of consumer capitalism and more like the storyboard of a Bond film in which we’ve all been cast as extras.
More and more, our lives happen there, on the screens of the bleeping little tyrants in our pockets.
Is love so discrete and impregnable that it can subsist in the midst of the most repellent undertakings?
It is a serious matter whether our lives are set within topographies that can hold our memories fast.
Economists disagree fairly radically about the impact of globalization, and the extent to which it undermines sovereignty and the ability of a single government to shape its own economy.
Why should we expect that the inner self waiting to be born corresponds to some paid job or profession?