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[Spoiler alert: Netflix’s The Residence is, in one respect, a mystery about a murderer. Toward the end of this post, the murderer is revealed.] For Bob Grunst, the only twitcher I know “Unpredictable recurrence is not a sign of languages ambiguity but is a fact: of language, as such, that there are words.”– Stanley Cavell, [] The post A Black Detective in the White House: The Residence first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Does writing have a future? This eerily prophetic question was posed by media theorist and phenomenologist Vilém Flusser back in 1987. Amidst the ever-expanding use of GenAI in scholarly writing, it is indeed a question that educators are confronted with today. On the one hand, GenAI offers visions of a hopeful future, as it is [] The post Writing Matters first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Several years ago, I took over teaching an interdisciplinary elective in the Management Department at Loyola’s Quinlan School of Business entitled “Ethics, Economics, and Entrepreneurship.” Loyola’s Jesuit Mission, especially the Ignatian Pedagogy Paradigm’s emphasis on cura personalis, care for the whole person, places a high emphasis on critical thinking. So I decided to try and [] The post Ethics in Business, James Murphy first appeared on Blog of the APA .

The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation “artificial intelligence” (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discussion of the large body of relevant work by Paul Churchland. (Full disclosure: he was my dissertation chair.) Paul is not ordinarily thought of as a philosopher [] The post Why We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now: Neurophilosophy and AI first appeared on Blog of the APA .

What is involved in seeing discrimination as systemic and structural, and how could such an approach help us identify injustices, or aspects of injustices, that might otherwise be invisible? We lack a robust conception of systemic discrimination, both within philosophy of law and within our legal institutions. This lack is partly explained by the fact [] The post Towards a Conception of Systemic Discrimination 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.

The American Academy of Arts Sciences has announced its latest class of members, and several philosophers are a part of it. They are: Julia Driver,  University of Texas at Austin Melissa S. Lane, ...

Last month it was reported that Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights...

The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP) has established the Bhimrao Ambedkar Prize in Global Pragmatism. It is the first prize from an American scholarly organization named in...

A professor writes in with some questions that arose during the recent season of graduate admissions. They write: How are departments putting up their prospective graduate students during visits? Are...

The Journal of Natural Law is a new peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing the best interdisciplinary research on natural law in philosophy, theology, and legal theory. The journal is edited...

In the Atacama Desert, scientists race to find novel cures for antibiotic-resistant infections, as mining interests encroach - by Aeon Video...

Aldo Leopold saw this in the eyes of a dying wolf: when we no longer fear nature, we are on the road to its destruction - by Shawn Simpson ...

Crafting each frame by hand, an animator paints the story of an Olympic swimmer’s return after surviving the Holocaust - by Aeon Video Watch...

Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return - by Likam Kyanzaire ...

How humans built beautiful, lasting structures without science or mathematics, using only engineering rules of thumb - by Aeon Video Watch...