Villeneuve’s film, Enemy (2013), is ostensibly about two men who look alike (they are played by the same actor). Jake Gyllenhaal plays both...

Films in which philosophy of mind is salient may, like films in which metaphysics is reconfigured, run the risk of not being understood. The...

In line with the films, The Sixth Sense (1999) and The Others (2001), Passengers (2008) centers on the (hypothetical) question of whether...

In the film,  Wall-E   (2008), a robot “falls in love” with another, whose anthropomorphic pronoun is she/her rather than it as is fitting f...

The uniqueness of the film, From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza (2024), goes well beyond it being a documentary that includes an animated s...

The medium of film has great potential in playing with ontology, the branch of philosophy that asks (and tries to answer) the fundamental qu...

In handling social ethics, especially if the topic is controversial, film-makers must decide, whether consciously or not, whether to advocat...

Should philosophers at universities, by which I mean scholars who hold a Ph.D. in philosophy, try to be relevant?   Nietzsche wrote that no ...

In the midst of the intensification of the very polarized and thus divisive U.S. presidential campaign “season” (i.e., year) during its last...

Sequel to Avatar (2009), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) contains many parallels with the original film—perhaps too many. The most outlandis...

As a field of business, business and society (which includes the topic of corporate social responsibility (CSR)) can be viewed as falling w...

On the surface,  Milton's Secret  (2016) is a story about a financially-stressed family getting a visit from grandpa, who brings someth...

Tilburg University in the E.U. is known to have an emphasis on empirical studies in the social sciences (including business). With this be...

The functional managerial role in modern business is weak by Nietzsche’s standard. That is to say, a manager is of the vulgar rather than o...

What does it mean to understand something? Put another way, what counts as understanding? The film, The Imitation Game (2014), touches on t...

It may seem like an oxymoron, but faculty administrators at even research universities can be hopelessly narrow-minded regarding knowledge ...

If you are not careful, you could come away from the film, Proof (2005) as a scientist, for the scientific method enjoys a starring role, ...

“Google’s popularity was built on its ability to help people find just the right Web pages. Then came the social Web, led by Facebook.”[1] ...