Philosophy Department at Hamilton College

08/04/2026

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/08/sometimes-there-is-nothing-wrong-with-letting-a-child-drown.html

by Tim Sommers

07/08/2026

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/07/do-we-choose.html

by Marianne JanackVisiting a grocery store forces you to face irrationality. Should I buy the Jax, which I love? Or should I refrain? The store doesn’t

06/26/2026

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/24/why-big-ai-labs-are-hiring-so-many-philosophers?utm_campaign=shared_article

The technology presents all sorts of thorny problems—a philosopher’s favourite kind

05/17/2026

Philosophy Als Ob

01/25/2026

https://mariannejanack.substack.com/p/remembering-forgetting-and-selfhood

Oliver Sacks and Dasha Kiper

01/04/2026

from one of our former students:

By Alex Lawson Syracuse should make a bigger deal out of January 1. That’s the date of the Cook’s Coffee House Riot—the delightfully weird event that birthed the City of Syracuse. Before 1848, what…

12/19/2025

starring Alex Plakias

To be human is to be awkward. But there are some situations where you truly just want to sublimate into dust.

10/21/2025

Book XI's latest issue, including stories about annoying personalities, language, prayer, and paths:

In  “Holy Gluten: The Righteous Battle Over God’s Grain” Claire Pellegrino tells us that bread and suffering have always been connected, and her essay is about the debates about gluten-free Communion wafers, oat matzoh, and which grains are sacred.  The life of a devout celiac is a difficult...

08/25/2025

https://theconversation.com/studying-philosophy-does-make-people-better-thinkers-according-to-new-research-on-more-than-600-000-college-grads-262681?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20%20August%2025%202025%20-%203495335611&utm_content=Daily%20Newsletter%20%20August%2025%202025%20-%203495335611+CID_bbf6b393a9fb393e72a199f273233348&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=Studying%20philosophy%20does%20make%20people%20better%20thinkers%20according%20to%20new%20research%20on%20more%20than%20600000%20college%20grads

Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

07/26/2025

https://writeordiemag.com/essays/writing-and-remembering

I. Plato’s Socrates tells the following story, which he says comes from “the Ancients”: “In the Egyptian city of Naucritus there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the ibis is sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calcu...