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Under what conditions can your academic work be meaningful? De Beauvoir has an unsettling and extreme answer.

Mariana Gomez is a Ph.D. student at Georgetown University studying Latina feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, and decolonial philosophy. As a first-generation college student and daughter of Mexican immigrant parents, her philosophical interests stem from her political and social justice commitments. Her latest publication was for the APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy []

Last year it was announced that the gruesome cult classic, Faces of Death (1978), would be remade by the team responsible for the film Cam (2018). Although the original received generally negative reviews, for a generation that was raised on VHS tapes, viewing this film became a rite of passage. With a vivid cover showcasing []

I employ a segment from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart titled “From Russia with Gov” (2011 season) in my critical thinking class to illustrate validity, soundness, and enthymematic arguments. You can find the video clip here: FROM RUSSIA WITH GOV The clip begins with the former Alaska governor Sarah Palin making a cryptic critical []

This post is a part of an ongoing biweekly series on philosophical pessimism and related positions. You can find other posts in the series here. This introduction to (philosophical) pessimism could alternatively have been called “An idiot’s guide to pessimism,” but such a title would have played into the rivalries between optimists and pessimists. Optimists []

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.

David Builes, assistant professor of philosophy at Princeton University, and Michele Odisseas Impagnatiello, a graduate student in philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are the winners...

[This post originally appeared on June 6th, 2015.] A little while ago there was a discussion on Reddit about the most beautiful paragraph or sentence youve ever read. I dont know about you, but I could...

Individual philosophy instructors often post publicly available resources for students on their websites. Heres a place to share them. An earlier post collected links to various guides for students about...

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Academic freedom is not a defense to violation of law, and faculty or others in charge of classroom topics and discussion must themselves remain neutral on the topic and cannot conduct or engage in discussions...

Attaining and maintaining power lies at the heart of almost all animal societies. And it’s as devious as human politicking - by Lee Alan Dugatkin...

Metamorphosis or ruin? A poetic, up-close look at the hidden work of rot asks us to reconsider our relationship with decay - by Aeon Video ...

For children like me, growing up in an utopian community, life was a bewildering chaos of freedom and indoctrination - by Susanna Crossman ...

An animator’s ethical conundrum: how does he depict an Autistic person without reducing him to a caricature? - by Aeon Video Watch at Aeon...

Thousands of victims of political executions lie in anonymous graves. Forensics offers hope for the ‘forgotten’ ones - by Nicole Iturriaga ...