Introduction / Peter Catapano --
I. What does it mean to be human? We are merging with robots. that's a good thing / Andy Clark ; What does it mean to be human? don't ask / Martha Nussbaum ; We are not born human / Bernard-Henri Levy ; A road trip to the origins of our species / Michael S. Gazzaniga ; The beast in me / Maxim Loskutoff ; Our delight in destruction / Costica Bardatan ; The humanity we can't relinquish / Pico Iyer ; The question we must keep asking / Ai Weiwei --
II. Is democracy possible? Rethinking our patriotism / Gary Gutting ; What we believe about our institutions / Malka Older ; Democracy is for the gods / Costica Bardatan ; The tragedy of democracy / Simon Critchley ; Why we still need Walt Whitman / Ed Simon ; How democracy can survive big data / Colin Koopman ; The making of a non-patriot ; What we believe about freedom / Mike Schur and Todd May --
III. Can we believe our eyes? Consciousness isn't a mystery. It's matter / Galen Strawson ; Do we really understand "fake news"? / Michael P. Lynch ; What we believe about reality / Garry Kasparov ; Deepfakes are coming. we can no longer believe what we see / Regina Rini ; Knowledge, ignorance, and climate change / N. Angel Pinillos ; "Transparency" is the mother of fake news / Stanley Fish ; What is the future of speculative journalism? / Christy Wampole --
IV. Should speech be free? The end of satire / Justin E. H. Smith ; Should we cancel Aristotle? / Agnes Callard ; What "snowflakes" get right about free speech / Ulrich Baer ; Confronting philosophy's anti-Semitism / Laurie Shrage ; The ignorant do not have the right to an audience / Bryan W. Van Norden ; I am a dangerous professor / George Yancy ; Beware of "snakes," "invaders," and other fighting words / Jason Stanley and David Beaver ; Breaking my own silence / Min Jin Lee --
V. What is happiness? Happiness and its discontents / Daniel M. Haybron ; The problem of "living in the present" / Kieran Setiya ; The happiest man I've ever met / Simon Critchley ; A philosopher on brain rest / Megan Craig ; It's a terrible day in the neighborhood, and that's okay / Mariana Alessandri ; Nietsche made me do it / John Kaag ; A revolution in happiness / Adriana Caverero --
VI. Does life have meaning? What we believe about beliefs / Errol Morris ; The good-enough life / Avram Alpert ; Is a life without struggle worth living? / Adam Etinson ; Waking up to the gift of "aliveness" / Sean D. Kelly ; If you could be someone else, would you? / Todd May ; Gratitude: in sickness and health / Philip S. Garrity ; Why do anything? a meditation on procrastination / Costica Bradatan ; The universe doesn't care about your "purpose" / Joseph P. Carter ; A life of meaning (reason not required) / Robert A. Burton --
VII. Why can't we all just get along? The ancient myth of "good fences" / Ingrid Rossellini ; The road to Auschwitz wasn't paved with indifference / Rivka Weinberg ; White America wants me to conform. I won't do it. / Chris Lebron ; Dear white America / George Yancy ; Enough with crumbs
Mona Eltahawy ; Drawing a line in the "gay wedding cake" case / John Corvino ; Education in the age of outrage / Kelly Oliver --
VIII. What is the difference between right and wrong? What "justice" really means / Paul Bloomfield ; Are we all "harmless torturers" now? / Paul Bloom and Matthew Jordan ; What we owe to others: Simone Weil's radical reminder / Robert Zaretsky ; In praise of lost causes / Mariana Alessandri ; The real cost of tweeting about my kids / Agnes Callard ; The stories we well ourselves / Todd May ; You should not have let your baby die / Gary Comstock ; What do we owe the dead? / Iskra Fileva --
IX. What is it like to be a woman? Descartes is not our father / Christia Mercer ; What does it mean to "speak as a woman"? / Agnes Callard ; Who counts as a woman? Carol Hay ; A power of our own / Elena Ferrante ; "IAmSexist / George Yancy ; The gender politics of fasting / Mariana Alessandri ; Is there a "rational" punishment for my rapist? / Amber Rose Carlson ; Feminism and the future of philosophy / Gary Gutting --
X. Why does art matter? Five theses on creativity / Eric Kaplan ; Art is a different kind of cosmic order / Brian Greene ; What we believe about storytelling / Ini Archibong ; A cog in the machine of creation / Wes Studi ; Naming the disappeared, raising the dead / Doris Salcedo ; I'm not "Mrs. America." That's the point. / Cate Blanchett ; What we believe about culture / Shahzia Sikander ; Art never dies / Sonny Rollins --
XI. Is this the end of the world as we know it? How to be a prophet of doom / Alison McQueen ; Mary Shelley created Frankenstein, and then a pandemic / Eileen M. Hunt ; To philosophize is to learn how to die / Simon Critchley ; Montaigne fled the plague, and found himself / Robert Zaretsky ; Does the pandemic have a purpose? / Stephen T. Asma ; Our cruel treatment of animals led to the Coronavirus / David Benatar ; Our "pursuit of happiness" is killing the planet / James Traub ; Would human extinction be a tragedy? / Todd May --
XII. Do we need God? Dear God, are you there? / George Yancy ; What religion gives us (that science can't) / Stephen T. Asma ; Teaching Calvin in California / Jonathan Sheehan ; What's so good about original sin? / Crispin Sartwell ; Abandon (nearly) all hope / Simon Critchley ; What we believe about prophesies / T.M. Luhrmann ; Why mortality makes us free / Martin Hägglund ; Can we learn to believe in God? / Anges Callard --
XIII. Now what? We're doomed. Now what? / Roy Scranton ; Are we the cows of the future? / Esther Leslie ; A utopia for a dystopian age / Espen Hammer ; The courage to be alone / Megan Craig ; In dark times, "dirty hands" can still do good / John Kaag and Clancy Martin ; What would David Bowie do? / Simon Critchley.