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Twelve years ago, I committed to a life in philosophy—knowing it meant poverty and prolonged adolescence. Years of it. Maybe forever, given the job market’s generosity toward philosophers!And my commitment hasn’t wavered. How could it? Philosophy does something almost nothing else can: whether I’m reading, writing, teaching, or lost in dialogue, it lifts me beyond [] The post The Feminine as Structural Problem  first appeared on Blog of the APA .

I came to philosophy somewhat by accident. I am from a bureaucratic, military-dominated area of Northern Virginia; almost everyone I went to high school with went into IT, the military, defense RD, or sales. When I was invited to an after-school seminar club, “The Dead Philosophers’ Society,” by a history-buff friend of mine, I initially [] The post Gratitude, Belonging, and Philosophy first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Recently, US classrooms have dealt with several forms of authoritarian and dystopian policies, ranging from Texas AM banning Plato to UNC Chapel Hill secretly filming faculty and students in the classroom. Now, they may be facing digital authoritarianism. Since 2023, students, faculty, and staff have integrated various Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) platforms into their day-to-day. [] The post The Risks of AI Recording Devices and Note-Taking Assistants in the Classroom first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Fantastical imaginings of a bleak and desolate end-state of mankind, characterized by environmental disasters, tyrannical governments, or some other cataclysmic decline, have been around for hundreds of years. And as the rapidly advancing capabilities of AI technologies have become increasingly apparent, so these visions of potential dystopian scenarios have proliferated. We have all come across [] The post Dystopian Futures: Anthropic and the Department of Defense first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Sam is fourteen years old. He spends hardly any time with friends or family. Every day, before or after school, or both, and every weekend, he trains and competes in matches. He rarely goes to social events; he doesn’t even walk home from school with friends. He keeps up with his schoolwork, but he has [] The post Let Kids Be Kids? The Ethics of Maximizing Children’s Talents 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.

Its April Fools Daya day of jokey trickery, of practical jokes. Unlike in years past (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022) I have no jokey post. Depending on how you feel about that Id like to say either Im sorry...

The 2026 “QS World University Rankings” have been published. These contain rankings by subject matter, including philosophy. The rankings are conducted by the London-based education data firm Quacquarelli...

Linda Radzik, professor of philosophy at Texas AM University, will be moving to Binghamton University (SUNY). Radzik works mainly in ethics and philosophy of law, writing about moral issues that arise...

Alan Musgrave, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Otago, died this past January. The following obituary is by Charles Pigden, professor of philosophy at the University of Otago. Alan...

This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more...

The rise and fall of the Medici’s ingeniously engineered ‘Garden of Wonders’: the Pratolino ‘proto-theme park’ in Tuscany - by Aeon Video ...

A centuries-old network of secret codes and shadowy brokers continues to outpace financial systems controlled by the state - by Miles Kellerman...

When Princeton University asked two directors to produce a marketing video, it became a work of art – and a time capsule - by Aeon Video Watch...

ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information - by Anne-Laure Le Cunff Read...

Americans love to gamble. But placing bets on wildfires, floods and storms comes with serious moral and social costs - by Jamie L Pietruska ...