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Below is the audio recording of David Chalmers’s presidential address, “Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to Large Language Models,” given at the 2023 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: “Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? [] The post 2023 Eastern Division Presidential Address: Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to Large Language Models first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Brightly clad delivery drivers, darting in and out of restaurants and traversing the city on bicycles, mopeds, or in cars, have become a persistent sight across urban areas. Their routines persist even when heavy rain or oppressive heat empties the sidewalks. These delivery drivers are the most visible representatives of a growing segment of the [] The post Gig Work, Planning Agency, and the Relevance of Outside Options first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Lauren Ashwell moved from her native New Zealand to the U.S. twenty-three years ago to do a Ph.D. at MIT. She now teaches at Bates College in Maine, with classes in philosophy, digital and computational studies, and gender and sexuality studies. What do you do at the APA? I’ve been on the Committee on Academic [] The post Meet the APA: Lauren Ashwell first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Dementia affects over 50 million people worldwide, and that number is only expected to increase as populations age and the average lifespan increases. At a global scale, the care provided to people with dementia by informal caregivers has an estimated value of over a trillion dollars. Given its prevalence, it is likely that someone you [] The post Dementia & Decision-Making: Why We Should Center Legacy in End-of-Life Care Planning first appeared on Blog of the APA .

The rise of the “manosphere” online, bringing together “pickup artists” (PUAs), “incels” (involuntary celibates), “men going their own way” (MGTOWs), men’s rights activists (MRAs), and an array of online “influencers” led by figures such as Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, has been directly contemporary in the last decades with the rise of forms of authoritarian [] The post Becoming Hard: The Manosphere as Radicalization Conveyer Belt for the Neofascist Far Right 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.

I’m very fond of the take-home essay, as there’s something irreplaceable about the experience of articulating a theory over the course of multiple weeks—doing background research, letting the ideas...

In April, Jonathan Pike, a professor of philosophy at Open University, submitted a formal complaint about the appointment of his colleague, professor of philosophy Sophie Grace Chappell, a trans woman...

Publication differences by gender are small or statistically undetectable during graduate study, but become more pronounced by graduation and especially by the time of first permanent hire.  Teaching...

What happens to the articles published in an online-only journal when that journal not only ceases to publish, but ceases to exist? That question is raised by the case of Kant Studies Online, an online...

The University of Dundee has announced it plans to cease offering Philosophy as a named degree from 2027. This news has come as a complete shock to students, staff and the wider Scottish community....

Woven from memories of her childhood in Iran, an animator recalls her Granny’s story of loss, love and friendship - by Aeon Video Watch on...

The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world. But Zhuangzi argues that it is a deeply flawed notion - by Christine Abigail...

From a broken life to a broken nail, ‘trauma’ has been bleached by overuse. But it names something real – and must be reclaimed - by Lily Dunn...

The 16 bones that would rewrite history – on the site in Germany where we began to understand Neanderthals, and ourselves - by Aeon Video ...

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself - by Martin Puchner...