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A few weeks ago, Las Vegas hosted my favorite show of the year: CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. Every January, I hatch elaborate plans with my sixteen-year-old, tech-obsessed son about how we might sneak in. Unfortunately, CES requires proof not only that you work in tech but also that you’reimportantin tech. I’ve tried. We are [] The post CES 2026: Wonders, Widgets, and a Few Red Flags first appeared on Blog of the APA .

When Gustav Klimt unveiled Philosophy at the Vienna Secession in 1900, the painting didn’t attempt to explain philosophy so much as to evoke the experience of engaging with it. A vertical procession of figures moves through shifting light, while a symbolic head occupies its own reflective register. The work gestures less toward tidy resolution than [] The post Why Reflections on Teaching Philosophy Matter: A Call for Contributions first appeared on Blog of the APA .

It’s common knowledge that we are awash in misinformation that can have severe negative consequences for society. When people hold false beliefs about the safety of vaccines, the outcomes of elections, or the causes of climate change, it is much more difficult for them to make responsible decisions on behalf of their families and communities. [] The post Threading the Needle: Can We Respect Local Knowledge While Resisting Misinformation? first appeared on Blog of the APA .

When a person or group of people lack a particular good, others will sometimes act in solidarity with them by depriving themselves of that good too. For example, while leading his army through the desert, Alexander the Great is fabled to have refused a helmet filled with water, preferring to undergo the soldiers’ suffering with [] The post Solidarity, Self-Deprivation, and Selflessness first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Manuel Almagro is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Valencia. He is the author of The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy, published with Routledge and shortlisted for the Nayef-Al Rodhan Book Prize 2025. In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Manuel discusses why prevailing accounts of affective polarization misunderstand the [] The post Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy 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.

David Humes tomb was one of a few sites at a cemetery in Edinburgh that have been vandalized with “disturbing occult-style paraphernalia,” according to The Guardian. The Guardian reports: A tour guide...

New links Why does philosophy have a history?  a lecture by Michael Rosen at the Royal Institute of Philosophy The inaugural addresses delivered by the first ten women Presidents of the Aristotelian...

Value capture is where your values are rich and subtle or in the process of developing that way. And you get put in a setting or near a technology or an institution that presents you with a simplified...

Bernhard Waldenfels, professor emeritus of Philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum and an influential figure in contemporary phenomenology, has died. Professor Waldenfels was known for his phenomenological...

Though philosophers are often (if not quite accurately) thought to have been asking the same questions for thousands of years, philosophers throughout history have responded in their work to the circumstances...

Where does the mind go in solitary confinement? An evocative animation exploring three individual experiences - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon...

Despite associations with the idle rich, the fact that inheritances are rising is a sign of a healthy, growing economy - by Daniel Waldenström...

Light is fundamental to the workings and laws of our Universe – but why does it exist in the first place? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) - by Toby Green Read...

For India’s travelling stunt drivers, who risk their lives for a living, freedom lies on the other side of fear - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon...