How often have you received an advertisement that seemed to be a perfect fit, or thought that your phone seemed to know what you desire better than you do? Today, advertisers have access to information about our online habits and media consumption, and use it to tailor advertisements to our...
Perhaps my earliest memory (I must have been two or three) places me on the floor of an aunt’s gloomy sitting room, staring passively at a framed print which hung on one of the walls. An eerie image, it depicted a merry-go-round on which a handful of...
I recently published a book called What Are They Thinking? Conversations with Australian Philosophers. One reason I did this was purely selfish—I wanted an excuse to keep having interesting philosophical conversations after finishing my PhD. Another reason was that having had some experience teaching philosophy to adults who had...
