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At the end of the twentieth century, the end of the Cold War suggested that freedom and democracy were the name of the game. The launch of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s promised a free flow of information and knowledge as well as borderless access to people across the connected world. Democracy [] The post Why We Need a Formal, Mandatory, and Remunerated “Citizen Lobby” first appeared on Blog of the APA .

While transparency has become the constant refrain of democratic politics, executive branch officials consistently seek to insulate their activities from public scrutiny. A recurrent rationale asserts the necessity of secrecy in governance. One narrative presents secrecy as ensuring the integrity of decision-making processes. Thus, when the UK government refused to disclose Cabinet minutes in which [] The post Secrecy, Democracy, Necessity first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Work, in the words of Karl Marx, is a “means of life” in two senses. It is, first of all, an instrument for human life. It is the activity by which we reproduce ourselves from day to day, from year to year, from generation to generation. But work also forms, so to speak, much of [] The post Good Work and Class Conflict first appeared on Blog of the APA .

The APA and other academic institutions have made efforts to gather and report demographic information about persons in philosophy. One motivation for doing so is to ensure that various voices and perspectives are not being shut out, and to invite perspectives to participate in doing “philosophy.” I wish to call your attention to a group [] The post Invisible Disabilities in Graduate School first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Iris Murdoch’s fiction is filled with the uncanny and the weird: drowned bodies, vampiric presences, telekinetic objects, angelic visitations, prophetic dreams, and adolescent “feyness.” Yet these phenomena are rarely reducible to her gothic atmosphere or the supernatural. Instead, Murdoch develops a psychology of haunting: a moral-psychological and ethical structure in which the spectral registers the [] The post Iris Murdoch’s Psychology of Haunting: Fantasy, Ethical Attention, and the Spectral Past 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 latest links “It is puzzling to many why enthusiasts of sports get so emotionally caught up and absorbed in the outcome of games in spite of the fact that those outcomes rarely if ever have any...

Susan Haack, professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami, has died. Professor Haack was well-known for her work in philosophy of logic, epistemology, pragmatism, and philosophy of law...

The editors of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS) have announced the winner of the 2025 Popper Prize. The Popper Prize is awarded annually for the best article appearing in the...

In its 2023 and 2025 surveys, Academic Philosophy Data Analysis (APDA) asked current PhD students to rate their satisfaction with their financial situation. In a post at the APDA site, co-director...

Conferences provide valuable opportunities to academics and can influence disciplinary agendas. But scholars have unequal access to conferences, often owing to where such conferences are held and the...

These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it - by Aeon Video Watch...

Technologies of preserving and reviving organisms are already redefining the meaning of life, death, and extinction itself - by Sadiah Qureshi...

Struggling to speak after an operation, one man sets out to build himself a new connection to the world: a radio antenna - by Aeon Video Watch...

Franz Boas helps us solve the puzzle of where our emotional lives originate: in our selves or in the cultures around us - by Noga Arikha Read...

This hand-painted stop motion animation recalls the textures of a family home demolished to make way for a widened road - by Aeon Video Watch...