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The police can either lie to Jane or they can be honest with her. If the police lie to Jane, it is probable that they will receive a crucial piece of information. If the police act honestly, they are unlikely to receive the information. What should the police do? Perhaps this sounds like an easy [] The post The Police Can Lie to You first appeared on Blog of the APA .

I’m going to start with an admission; I oppose the death penalty. There are several reasons for this. First, I consider it barbaric. Second, I am uneasy with the idea of the state wielding such irreversible power (especially given that most states are less competent than we, and they, would like to believe). Third, the [] The post Killing Cleanly: The Ethical Illusion of Humane Execution first appeared on Blog of the APA .

In this series on Philosophy and Technology, I have returned repeatedly to a question that refuses resolution: what is the purpose of human existence, and how does our most consequential creation—artificial intelligence—illuminate that purpose? The question has grown more urgent with each iteration. In exploring Philip Goffs cosmic teleology, Nietzsches natalism with Jennifer Banks, and the limits of [] The post Creation as Cosmic Revelation: AI and the Purpose of Human Existence first appeared on Blog of the APA .

In 2022, when Blake Lemoine shared his experience with LaMDA 2, he took the AIs responses seriously and claimed that artificial intelligence (AI) consciousness is real. Imagine the movie Her, in which a man falls in love with an operating system he converses with. With the growing sophistication of LLMs (large language models) and their [] The post Words Without Knowledge: Augustine and the Use of Language in the Age of LLMs first appeared on Blog of the APA .

I started noticing a pattern. Every Black woman I know who has given birth in the past decade delivered by cesarean. Some of those surgeries were scheduled in advance. Some followed hours of labor. Some were described as unavoidable emergencies. But the outcome was the same. At first, I treated it as coincidence. Childbirth is [] The post Race, Risk, and the VBAC Calculator: The Politics of Race Correction in Childbirth 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.

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A study by The Economist looked at how the employment prospects of college graduates have changed over the past few years as AI use by potential employers has increased. The concern is that firms will...

The Australian Political Studies Association has created a new prize in political theory and philosophy in memory of Peter Balint, a political theorist at the University of New South Wales, Canberra...

Economist Alex Tabarrok (GMU) recently wrote of ideas behind their time. He explains: We are all familiar with ideas said to be ahead of their time, Babbage’s analytical engine and da Vinci’s helicopter...

Philosopher David Boonin (University of Colorado Boulder) is inviting other Jewish philosophers to contribute to a collection of writings he’s putting together. The idea is to ask philosophers who are...

Why must humans die? According to an ancient Indian folktale, death first came to Earth through an ill-fated love affair - by Aeon Video Watch...

Sergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human invention - by Steve Nadis Read...

A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise - by Emily Herring Read...

‘We’re not sure what it means or how it started’ – the enigmatic ritual that has existed in Switzerland for centuries - by Aeon Video Watch...

Talk as much as you like about human rights, nothing will change until the architecture of global finance is reformed - by Attiya Waris Read...