I What Does it Mean to be Human? --
We Are Merging with Robots. That's a Good Thing p. 3 / Andy Clark --
What Does It Mean to Be Human? Don't Ask p. i / Martha Nussbaum --
We Are Not Born Human p. 11 / Bernard-Henri Lévy --
A Road Trip to the Origins of Our Species p. 14 / Michael S. Gazzaniga --
Beast in Me p. 21 / Maxim Loskutoff --
Our Delight in Destruction p. 24 / Costica Bradatan --
Humanity We Can't Relinquish p. 28 / Pico Iyer --
Question We Must Keep Asking p. 32 / Ai Weiwei --
II Is Democracy Possible? --
Rethinking Our Patriotism p. 37 / Gary Gutting --
What We Believe About Our Institutions p. 42 / Malka Older --
Democracy Is for the Gods p. 46 / Costica Bradatan --
Tragedy of Democracy p. 50 / Simon Critchley --
Why We Still Need Walt Whitman p. 55 / Ed Simon --
How Democracy Can Survive Big Data p. 59 / Colin Koopman --
Making Of a Non-Patriot p. 63 / Alex Rosenberg --
What We Believe About Freedom p. 68 / Mike Schur and Todd May --
III Can We Believe Our Eyes? --
Consciousness Isn't a Mystery. It's Matter p. 75 / Galen strawson --
Do We Really Understand "Fake News"? p. 80 / Michael P. Lynch --
What We Believe About Reality p. 83 / Garry Kasparov --
Deepfakes Are Coming. We Can No Longer Believe What We See p. 87 / Regina Rini --
Knowledge, Ignorance, and Climate Change p. 90 / N. Ángel Pinillos --
"Transparency" is the Mother of Fake News p. 95 / Stanley Fish --
What Is the Future of Speculative Journalism? p. 102 / Christy Wampole --
IV Should Speech be Free? --
End of Satire p. 109 / Justin E. H. Smith --
Should We Cancel Aristotle? p. 114 / Agnes Callard --
What "Snowflakes" Get Right About Free Speech p. 119 / Ulrich Baer --
Confronting Philosophy's Anti-Semitism p. 125 / Laurie Shrage --
Ignorant Do Not Have a Right to an Audience p. 129 / Bryan W. Van Norden --
I Am a Dangerous Professor p. 135 / George Yancy --
Beware of "Snakes," "Invaders," and Other Fighting Words p. 139 / Jason Stanley and David Beaver --
Breaking My Own Silence p. 143 / Min Jin Lee --
Happiness and Its Discontents p. 149 / Daniel M. Haybron --
Problem of "Living in the Present" p. 155 / Kieran Setiya --
Happiest Man I've Ever Met p. 158 / Simon Critchley --
A Philosopher on Brain Rest p. 166 / Megan Craig --
It's a Terrible Day in the Neighborhood, and That's Okay p. 171 / Mariana Alessandri --
Nietzsche Made Me Do It p. 176 / John Kaag --
A Revolution in Happiness p. 180 / Adriana Cavarero --
VI Does Life Have Meaning? --
What We Believe About Beliefs p. 187 / Errol Morris --
Good-Enough Life p. 190 / Avram Alpert --
Is a Life Without Struggle Worth Living? p. 193 / Adam Etinson --
Waking Up to the Gift of "Aliveness" p. 198 / Sean D. Kelly --
If You Could Be Someone Else, Would You? p. 203 / Todd May --
Gratitude: In Sickness and Health p. 208 / Philip S. Garrity --
Why Do Anything? A Meditation on Procrastination p. 212 / Costica Bradatan --
Universe Doesn't Care About Your "Purpose" p. 216 / Joseph P. Carter --
A Life of Meaning (Reason Not Required) p. 221 / Robert A. Burton --
VII Why Can't We All Just Get Along? --
Ancient Myth of "Good Fences" p. 227 / Ingrid Rossellini --
Road to Auschwitz Wasn't Paved with Indifference p. 231 / Rivka Weinberg --
White America Wants Me to Conform. I Won't Do It. p. 237 / Chris Lebron --
Dear White America p. 242 / George Yancy --
Enough with Crumbs-I Want the Cake p. 249 / Mona Eltahawy --
Drawing a Line in the "Gay Wedding Cake" Case p. 254 / John Corvino --
Education in the Age of Outrage p. 259 / Kelly Oliver --
VIII What is the Difference Between Right and Wrong? --
What "Justice" Really Means p. 265 / Paul Bloomfield --
Are We All "Harmless Torturers" Now? p. 269 / Paul Bloom and Matthew Jordan --
What We Owe to Others: Simone Weil's Radical Reminder p. 273 / Robert Zaretsky --
In Praise of Lost Causes p. 277 / Mariana Alessandri --
Real Cost of Tweeting About My Kids p. 281 / Agnes Callard --
Stories We Tell Ourselves p. 285 / Todd May --
You Should Not Have Let Your Baby Die p. 289 / Gary Comstock --
What Do We Owe the Dead? p. 294 / Iskra Fileva --
IX What is it Like to be a Woman? --
Descartes Is Not Our Father p. 301 / Christia Mercer --
What Does It Mean to "Speak as a Woman"? p. 306 / Agnes Callard --
Who Counts as a Woman? p. 311 / Carol Hay --
A Power of Our Own p. 318 / Elena Ferrante --
#IAmSexist p. 322 / George Yancy --
Gender Politics of Fasting p. 329 / Mariana Alessandri --
Is There a "Rational" Punishment for My Rapist? p. 334 / Amber Rose Carlson --
Feminism and the Future of Philosophy p. 340 / Gary Gutting --
X Why Does Art Matter? --
Five Theses on Creativity p. 347 / Eric Kaplan --
Art Is a Different Kind of Cosmic Order p. 350 / Brian Greene --
What We Believe About Storytelling p. 354 / Ini Archibong --
A Cog in the Machine of Creation p. 358 / Wes Studi --
Naming the Disappeared, Raising the Dead p. 361 / Doris Salcedo --
I'm Not "Mrs. America." That's the Point p. 364 / Cate Blanchett --
What We Believe About Culture p. 367 / Shahzia Sikander --
Art Never Dies p. 371 / Sonny Rollins --
XI Is this the End of the World as we know it? --
How to Be a Prophet of Doom p. 377 / Alison McQueen --
Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein, and Then a Pandemic p. 382 / Eileen M. Hunt --
To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die p. 386 / Simon Critchley --
Montaigne Fled the Plague, and Found Himself p. 391 / Robert Zaretsky --
Does the Pandemic Have a Purpose? p. 394 / Stephen T. Asma --
Our Cruel Treatment of Animals Led to the Coronavirus p. 398 / David Benator --
Our "Pursuit of Happiness" Is Killing the Planet p. 402 / James Traub --
Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy? p. 407 / Todd May --
Dear God, Are You There? p. 415 / George Yancy --
What Religion Gives Us (That Science Can't) p. 421 / Stephen T. Asma --
Teaching Calvin in California p. 427 / Jonathan Sheehan --
What's So Good About Original Sin? p. 432 / Crispin Sartwell --
Abandon (Nearly) All Hope p. 436 / Simon Critchley --
What We Believe About Prophecies p. 442 / T. M. Luhrmann --
Why Mortality Makes Us Free p. 446 / Martin Hägglund --
Can We Learn to Believe in God? p. 450 / Agnes Callard --
We're Doomed, Now What? p. 457 / Roy Scranton --
Are We the Cows of the Future? p. 463 / Esther Leslie --
A Utopia for a Dystopian Age p. 467 / Espen Hammer --
Courage to Be Alone p. 471 / Megan Craig --
In Dark Times, "Dirty Hands" Can Still Do Good p. 475 / John Kaag and Clancy Martin --
What Would David Bowie DO? p. 480 / Simon Critchley.