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Coming to know your neighbors is a patient, quiet, thoughtful work that can end up being domestic, fun, and comforting.  We are the stitchers of a collective quilt, the squares of which are patches of our contiguous living. The post Try Neighborhood Philosophy in a Summer Block Party first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Imagine a protest. What do you see? Perhaps you imagined a demonstration: people marching, carrying hand-painted signs, singing songs, or chanting slogans. (“We are the 99%!,” “No justice, no peace!,” “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?”) These kinds of large-scale public gatherings represent, for many, the archetype of political protest: a [] The post Radical Protest and Moral Justification first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Most philosophy teachers we know have adopted strikingly defensive positions on AI use in their classes. One faction—call them Luddites—rejects these novel “labor-saving” technologies altogether. After all, many students are just copy/pasting dubious-quality AI output without internalizing anything. In response, Luddites often end up reinstituting in-class essays for students who may never again write out [] The post Why should your students do the work? first appeared on Blog of the APA .

For the most part, The Wire (2002-2008) has been embraced by educators for its realism, for the way that it shows in almost journalistic detail the effects of the war on drugs on inner city life, deindustrialization on the working class, and underfunded schools on children growing up in the projects. These are all aspects [] The post Smart Ass Pawn: Ideology and Ideological Interpellation in The Wire first appeared on Blog of the APA .

In Fall 2023 and again in Spring 2025, I taught Texas State University’s graduate-level Social and Political Philosophy course. My aim was to design a syllabus that diverged from the typical political philosophy course, while nonetheless remaining steeped within the both the Western and the Eastern traditions of ideas. Drawing on critiques advanced by the [] The post Social and Political Philosophy, Idris Robinson 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.

Alasdair MacIntyre, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and Duke University, well-known for his work in moral and political philosophy, has died. Professor MacIntyre wrote...

Time magazine has included philosopher Peter Singer in its Time 100 Philanthropy 2025, its list of the 100 most influential people shaping the future of giving at a pivotal moment. In its comments on...

New links “Any sign of struggle on my part seemed to be taken as evidence that, perhaps, I was not cut out for intellectual life and did not care enough about philosophy”  an interview with Vanessa...

Derek Parfit: His Life and Thought, a collection of essays by people who knew him, edited by Jeff McMahan, was published a couple of days ago. There is an online (gated) version at Oxford Academic....

This project of re-envisaging, looking at past ideas, and developing new ones to deal with our difficult situation will take the work of many people The following is a guest post by Helen de Cruz, professor...

Smallpox went from a feared killer to a fading memory. Its eradication is one of humanity’s greatest collective triumphs - by Aeon Video Watch...

It’s a ‘failed painting’ that obscures the profound power of German Romanticism. Why do we love the ‘Wanderer’ so much? - by Gianluca Didino ...

An optical poem featuring audio of W H Auden’s ode to trees paired with art from the Met and outdoor footage of New York state - by Aeon Video...

You can believe in border control yet protect those fleeing to safety. So what is our ethical obligation to refugees? - by Bradley Hillier-Smith...

A captivating story from Aardman Animations about a ‘little thief’ turned career criminal who just can’t break the habit - by Aeon Video Watch...