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Recently, I was coming home from a conference, and I had just gotten through TSA at an airport that I had been to before. I noticed something that I had noticed the previous time I was there, which is a startlingly long line. The line that I had noticed previously is the line to the [] The post When Gender Policing Backfires first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Below we find a clip from The Cruise, a 1998 documentary by Bennett Miller that follows the now-infamous New York City tour bus guide Timothy “Speed” Levitch on some of his untraditional excursions into the “total cacophony” that is New York. In the clip, Levitch recalls a conversation wherein he denounces the city grid plan, [] The post Combating “Opinion”: Gilles Deleuze Meets Timothy “Speed” Levitch first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Below is the audio recording of Christine M. Korsgaard’s John Dewey Lecture, “Thinking in Good Company,” given at the 2022 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required).  The audio of the lecture is available here: “Thinking in Good Company” by Christine Korsgaard Christine Korsgaard is Arthur [] The post 2022 Eastern Division Dewey Lecture: “Thinking in Good Company” first appeared on Blog of the APA .

“The world in which we live today and which surrounds us, is a technological one,” wrote Günther Anders in 1979. The Cold War world, just as much as our own, was a world fundamentally shaped by technology. Technology’s promise included the automation of work, the possibility of abundance, the discovery of new cures for diseases, [] The post ‘Totalitarian’ Technologies and the Transformation of the Political World: A Radical Cold War Critique first appeared on Blog of the APA .

As if stealing our data, copyrighted material including books, music, and films, and quite possibly many of our jobs, was not enough, AI seems to be increasingly stealing our hearts as well. Recent surveys have found that almost a quarter of Americans have engaged in romantic interactions with AI chatbots, while, according to another survey, [] The post What’s Love Got to Do With It: Chatbot Wives and Lonely Hearts first appeared on Blog of the APA .

It’s not about self-improvement. It’s about being a good member of society.

It’s astonishing how relentlessly Western philosophy has strained to prove we are not squirrels.

Not a day goes by that speakers of the Yoruba language do not make mention of death as both a phenomenon and a certainty.

Five years after his death, the dystopian world that his music describes seems closer than ever. But maybe he can show us a way out of it.

The pastures of digital dictatorship — crowded conditions, mass surveillance, virtual reality — are already here.

Philosophy is a fact-based discipline that makes progress, says Bryan Frances,  and to prove it he offers up 200 straightforward facts directly about philosophical matters that virtually all philosophers...

Last week I posted about PhilLit, a new AI research tool for philosophers that finds and summarizes philosophical writing. The post generated a lot of comments, which prompted one reader to run a little...

Matt Zwolinski (University of San Diego) says he has long thought it would be useful to have a website in which you could type in the name of a book and be shown all the different reviews of it that...

The pursuit of knowledge generates disagreement, including disagreement about how to pursue knowledge. This has implications for current debates of scholarship and activism and complaints about some...

Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker. That may have once been true, but as Kieran Barker, an...