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This entry is based on my “Paternalism and the Ethics of Suicide Prevention,” forthcoming in M. Cholbi and P. Stellino, eds., Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide. On its face, suicide prevention is the kind of phenomenon that lends support to paternalism. Suicide often seems prudentially ill-advised, a choice wherein a person ends up [] The post From Paternalism to Suicide Prevention: No Simple Path first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Ismail Kurun is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He works in social political philosophy, Islamic medieval philosophy, the philosophy of AI, and ethics. He is writing a dissertation on the epistemology of liberalism and the liberalization of nonliberal societies. For more, please visit www.ismailkurun.com. Link to your website: www.ismailkurun.com What [] The post APA Member Interview, Ismail Kurun first appeared on Blog of the APA .

On February 5, I delivered a presentation on China’s legal response system to domestic violence at Emory Law School, in which I introduced the concept of the state-family narrative in China. During the discussion, Professor Martha Fineman invited me to elaborate on this concept and, in particular, to consider what role the state should play [] The post The State-Family Narrative and the Responsive State first appeared on Blog of the APA .

A basic tenet of feminism is that women as a group face systematic and non-accidental forms of social injustice. Hence, feminism has typically been understood as the political movement to end the sexist and patriarchal oppression of women. One possible way to understand woman in this claim is to take it as a sex term: [] The post Humanist Feminism and Dehumanization first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Ximeng Chen is an associate professor from the Department of Philosophy at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. She was a CSTMS scholar at UC Berkeley from 2024–2025. Her research focuses on AI ethics, particularly value alignment in AI through human-in-the-loop methodologies. She holds degrees in both Computer Science and Philosophy. Personal Website: https://cstms.berkeley.edu/people/ximeng-chen/ What excites you [] The post APA Member Interview: Ximeng Chen 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.

New links “It is not uncommon to open an analytic philosophy paper written during the past century and find logical symbols and mathematical notation among the prose… Why do analytic philosophers do...

New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, and moreincluding, now, a section on recently published open access philosophy books (if...

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The Australian has published its Research Magazine, which includes a list of the top current researchers in Australia in 250 fields.  Two philosophers are on the list. The Australians top researcher...

In this mesmerising short from 1991, thousands of Japanese newspaper clippings form a prescient vision of our digital world - by Aeon Video ...

Who belongs to our moral community? The Greek philosopher Empedocles had an answer: all life, from humans to the laurel bush - by Tristan Moyle...

The gravest of all decisions, to go to war, happens without the consent of the people. This is a great flaw in democracy - by Vincenza Falletti...

What is love to you? An artist focuses on the hands and gestures of his subjects as they reflect on this boundless question - by Aeon Video ...

This life-giving element, stored in rock and organic material, moves around Earth in an ancient cycle we have just broken - by Jack Lohmann ...