some poems…
to the birdsong that drifts in under my windowsill… to the birdsong that drifts in under my windowsill, let your warbling notes fall into my symphony. for your breath has…
Read on…The Value-Neutrality Thesis: A Response to Morrow’s Refutation
The Value-Neutrality Thesis asserts that technology is intrinsically value-neutral, where any positive or negative consequence resulting from its usage can be entirely attributed to the blameworthy or praiseworthy intentions of…
Read on…Japanese Death Poems and Life in the Face of Death
The Japanese samurai, dressed in traditional white robes and bathed in cold water, draws the tantō, a dagger less than a foot in length, forged for stabbing, sometimes slashing, and…
Read on…Choosing To Be: Unchaining Freedom and the Post-WWII Existentialist Renaissance
Positionality Scrolling through the earliest logs of my email weeks earlier, I noticed an email from my dad timestamped February 9, 2016, from when I was just 9 years old.…
Read on…An Objection to Biomedical Enhancement: Intrinsically Inequitable Systems
The rapid advancement of our understanding in the fields of human physiology and behavior in recent years has catapulted the potential of biomedical technologies to new heights. Not only has…
Read on…On Morality: Utilitarianism and Deontology
Introduction Two prominent normative ethical theories in evaluating the morality of actions are utilitarianism and deontology. In this paper, I argue that, while Kantian ethics serves as a more sustainable…
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Tianyi Evans Gu 