Philosophy Bites Daily

Crowdsourcing Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham 'would have been delighted by the Internet'. Read more...

Cyber-Cesspools and Free Speech

Brian Leiter makes a case for reducing the visibility of offensive cyber-cesspools, those websites, blogs, and chatrooms where demeaning and humiliating comments are  posted. But would his solution work? Read more...

Zizek, Wikileaks, and the Joker

The Joker wants to reveal the truth beneath the mask; so does Julian Assange. Does that make him a villain? The philosopher-joker Slavoj Zizek riffs on the parallels between the moral ambiguities of The Dark Knight Batman film and the shameless cynicism of the global order and its reactions to Wikileaks disclosures. Read more...

Machiavelli 2.0?

What would Machiavelli have to say about the Internet and the Web 2.0? The idea that a modern day Prince would be advised to build her power base around networked communities may be right, but it is far-fetched to see a latter day Machiavelli advocating transparency. Power, fear, guile, seeming to be one thing while being another were more his wont. Read more...

Democracy, Freedom and the Internet

The rise of the Internet has stirred a wave of cyber-utopianism. Is it justified? Perhaps not suggests Evgeny Morozov. Read more...