The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This interview with Dr. Jeff Sebo is the 68th contribution in the series. Dr. Jeff Sebo sat down with The Daily Ant to discuss animal agency and moral status, Dr. Sebo’s pet dog Smoky, our pet ant…

The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This interview with Dr. Vida Yao is the 67th contribution in the series. Dr. Vida Yao sat down with The Daily Ant to discuss graciousness, implicit bias, boredom, ant puns, and more. Enjoy! Dr. Vida Yao is Assistant…

The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the sixty-sixth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Eric Wiland. Colonies and the Common Weal Some ant colonies thrive. Others don’t. In many cases, myrmecologists can tell us what it is for one or the other…

The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the sixty-fifth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Luke Roelofs. Anty-Nesting and Anty-Combination Here’s a question: are ants conscious? Here’s another question: are ant colonies conscious? I’m not going to defend an answer to either…

The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the sixty-fourth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Briana Toole. To Follow Blindly – Army Ants and Echo Chambers Ant hills dominated the backyard of my childhood home. I once had the misfortune of falling…

The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the sixty-third contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Stephen White. “The Ant and the Grasshopper” and the Politics of Insect Responsibility The ants of Aesop’s fable work all summer gather food to store for the…

The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the sixty-second contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Carrie Jenkins. Twenty million sisters A colony of siafu or driver ants can be considered as a superorganism. Or an army, if you like your metaphors military.…

The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the sixtieth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Julia Driver. “While conducting research in Europe I came across the following, which I have transcribed from a manuscript found between the pages of an antiquarian book…

Lovers of ant philosophy – that is, lovers of philosophy – will have noticed that our last Philosophy Phridays contribution was published on July 27th (an interesting piece on doubting ants by Dr. Andrew Moon). Such philosophy-lovers will be happy to hear that this time gap emphatically does NOT signal the death of our most…

The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the fifty-ninth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Andrew Moon. Do Ants Doubt? Do ants doubt? I will argue that they probably don’t. Some might think that ants don’t have doubts because they don’t have…

The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the fifty-eighth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Craig Agule. On Blaming Ants Last week I made my favorite bean salad:  grilled green beans, red peppers, and radishes. I put the salad on the table…