Philosophical Imaginations

"Mind-Dependent Objectivity": A Preliminary Exploration

This essay, by defending “mind-dependent objectivity,” shows how morality can depend on human attitudes while still allowing for better and worse moral judgments. It argues that moral disagreement does not eliminate the possibility of moral objectivity.

Introducing the Extended Mind Thesis: Can the Mind be Extended Beyond the Skull?

This article explains Clark and Chalmers’s Extended Mind Thesis: the idea that tools like Otto’s notebook may sometimes become part of the mind itself. It asks where cognition ends when memory, technology, and the world become deeply intertwined.

Episode 2: Is Abortion Really Murder?

If it's not murder to refuse to provide an organ that is essential for someone's survival, is abortion murder simply because it refuses to provide the fetus with the abdomen?

Episode 1: The Sorites Paradox

Could a grain of sand be a heap?