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Below is the audio recording of David Chalmers’s presidential address, “Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to Large Language Models,” given at the 2023 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the

Brightly clad delivery drivers, darting in and out of restaurants and traversing the city on bicycles, mopeds, or in cars, have become a persistent sight across urban areas. Their routines persist even when heavy rain or oppressive heat empties the sidewalks. These delivery drivers are the most visible representatives of a growing segment of the labor market: gig workers, who...

Lauren Ashwell moved from her native New Zealand to the U.S. twenty-three years ago to do a Ph.D. at MIT. She now teaches at Bates College in Maine, with classes in philosophy, digital and computational studies, and gender and sexuality studies.

Dementia affects over 50 million people worldwide, and that number is only expected to increase as populations age and the average lifespan increases. At a global scale, the care provided to people with

The rise of the “manosphere” online, bringing together “pickup artists” (PUAs), “incels” (involuntary celibates), “men going their own way” (MGTOWs), men’s rights activists (MRAs), and an array of online “influencers” led by figures such as Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, has been directly contemporary in the last decades with the rise of forms of authoritarian ethnonational...