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I find myself bothered by the relationship between bioethics and public health ethics. Is it that the former focuses on individuals and the latter on communities? What is the relationship between the individual and their communities? Practically speaking, bioethics has been institutionalized in ways that emphasize individual (patient) integrity, while public health ethics has been [] The post Environmental Bioethics and the Problem of Interdependence first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Mark Coppenger (BA, Ouachita; PhD, Vanderbilt; MDiv, SWBTS) retired in 2019 as Professor of Christian Philosophy and Ethics at SBTS, having also taught full time at Wheaton (IL) and MBTS and as an adjunct at Elmhurst. He’s been a pastor and an infantry officer, and he posts at markcoppenger.com. How did you get into philosophy? [] The post APA Member Interview, Mark Coppenger first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, the owner of the Muskau Park (now in Germany and Poland), an aristocratic gardener and author of Hints on Landscape Gardening (Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei, 1834; translated into English for Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA, 1917) was strongly inspired by the English gardening tradition. It is not surprising, then, that he interpreted garden [] The post Garden as a Performance first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Economic democracy is most often defended by pointing to the so-called “firm-state analogy.” Hannes Kuch’s recent plea for economic democracy in an earlier post in this series is no exception, arguing that “if being subjected to state government requires democracy, so does being subjected to corporate government. This is the consequence from the analogy between [] The post Economic Democracy as the Redemption of Political Democracy first appeared on Blog of the APA .

The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a mini-series called “Why I Support the Virtual APA.” This post marks the fourth and final installment. The mini-series was organized by Colin Marshall, who serves as Program Chair for the 2026 Pacific APA. You probably don’t need me to rehearse all the benefits of virtual conferences, but [] The post Why I Support the Virtual APA: How I Hate Virtual Conferences and Why I Keep Attending Them 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.

I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX. Thats one student quoted in an article at Politico by Evan Mandery that describes how things have gone at the University...

Texas AM University (TAMU) administrators cancelled Ethics in Public Policy, a graduate course in the universitys Bush School of Government and Public Service, because they rejected as too vague its...

The Leverhulme Trust has announced the winners of its 2025 Major Research Fellowships, and three philosophy professors are among them. They are: Christoph Kelp (University of Glasgow), awarded £169...

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has been experimenting with holding one of its three major conferences entirely online. The organization has now announced that, after the second of these...

The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that the winner of its 2025 article prize is Joe Stratmann, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Professor...

In the 19th century, the linear idea of time became dominant – with profound implications for how we experience the world - by Emily Thomas ...

How do you capture something invisible? A blustery short revels in the sights and sounds of a windswept day on the coast - by Aeon Video Watch...

In 1752, David Hume discerned that wealth was becoming untethered from land. Here lies the origin of our political divisions - by Catherine Nichols...

Spinning imaginative tales, a father wrapped his daughter in a protective layer of love all the way from an island gulag - by Aeon Video Watch...

Many people today want to commit their remains to rejuvenating the planet. But are these green deaths just greenwashing? - by Hannah Gould &...