David Beisecker, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nevada Las Vegas — Early American Hegelianism can be found in some surprising places. One of the most unlikely would surely be Nevada Territory during the American Civil…

Zahi Zalloua, Dept. of Indigeneity, Race, and Ethnicity Studies, Whitman College—In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, “How does it feel to be a problem?” What makes the…

Bill Ramsey, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nevada Las Vegas — There has been a tremendous amount of attention, analysis, speculation and awe directed at recent developments in artificial intelligence. And yet despite…

Chris Heathwood, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder — An adaptive preference is one formed or changed in response to what the subject of the preference takes their feasible options to be. The problem of…