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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 .

Who controls the future? The answer to this question concerns the role and politics of financial investment under capitalism. Through its mode of investment, capitalism distinctively values and creates our future. First, it does so by capitalizing the future, by means of economically valuing now certain goods and assets, while devaluing others, based on what [] The post Who Controls the Future? On Capitalism, Democracy, and Social Alienation first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Anyone who has visited the home of parents with a newborn baby can recognize from the outset a specific kind of atmosphere that seems to fill the space. It is often an atmosphere of anticipation, exhilaration, chaos, and apprehension that is tangible and felt “in the air.” The parents themselves seem to be expressions of [] The post Atmospheres of Parenthood first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Below is the audio recording of Allan Gibbard’s John Dewey Lecture, “The Question Is How to Live,” given at the 2022 Central Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR. The audio of the lecture is available here: “The Question Is How to [] The post 2022 Central Division Dewey Lecture: The Question Is How to Live first appeared on Blog of the APA .

When we think about irony, what comes to mind is often something like Socratic or dramatic irony. The first describes instances in which a speaker feigns ignorance in order to draw out another person’s claims and expose their inconsistencies, while the second refers to situations in which events unfold in a way that sharply diverges [] The post Unironically Good? Hegel, Irony, and Nicolas Cage 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 University at Buffalo Department of Philosophy is launching what will be the first PhD program in applied ontology. . It will be a fully online, asynchronous program, and it will enroll students...

The latest links A tendency to move from “disruptive innovation” to “novelty through recombining existing insights into new connective ideas”  a study of work by millions of scientists over six decades...

Administrators at the University of Hertfordshire are eliminating not just philosophy (as reported last week) from the school, but also undergraduate programs in English Language and Linguistics, English...

Why should a department hire some fresh PhD when it could instead hire Derek Parfit, Daniel Dennett, Judy Thomson, Hilary Putnam, Ruth Barcan Marcus, or David Lewis? You might say: How could a department...

A federal court judge ruled today that Texas State University must reinstate philosopher Idris Robinson, whom the university fired from his assistant professorship over a talk he gave about the Israeli...

How a public health initiative to reduce air pollution has created ‘full-time citizen complainants’ who patrol the city - by Aeon Video Watch...

We need a new imagination for the whole Earth, linking the power of the deep planet with the vitality of the surface - by James Dinneen Read...

In this award-winning short, inmates and college students explore the history of incarceration from inside a US prison - by Aeon Video Watch...

The emotional and practical skills of adulthood can only be learned from (appropriate) levels of discomfort and stress - by Niklas Serning &...

Things have jobs: pillows are made for comfort, scissors are sharp, and digital devices are made to track your every move - by Carissa Véliz...