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Paris, May 1968. Barricades rose in the Latin Quarter, tear gas filled the French boulevards, and students occupied the Sorbonne. What started as a campus protest quickly turned into a national uprising that shook France to its core. Already during the early spring of ’68, a new mood had begun to take hold. Rents were [] The post Sartre and Freedom: Teaching Responsibility in May 1968, Luis Maurin Hakala first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Brain Rot, Feedback Loops, and the Shared Costs of Social Media Optimization In last month’s post, I introduced the idea of linguistic feedback loops in large language models (LLMs) through small but telling examples—words like delve that appear with surprising frequency in AI-generated text. These indicators of generative AI use emerge because they are statistically overrepresented in [] The post Rot, Rinse, Repeat first appeared on Blog of the APA .

The city I live in has many green-billed toucans. Besides their stunning looks, toucans also produce a conspicuous cry. One day, after hearing one such cry, I tried to figure out how I would describe it to someone who never heard it. Here is what I came up with: Imagine you have a piece of [] The post I, Large Language Model: Could Large Language Models Really Be Conscious? first appeared on Blog of the APA .

As a philosopher working on interdisciplinary issues such as the polarization of public opinion, I’m often asked two things: what role philosophy plays in relation to this topic and what can be done to reduce polarization. In this post, I’ll address both of these points with the aim of showing that philosophy is crucial for [] The post Philosophy as Resistance: Polarization, Narratives and the Evaluative first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Zoë Johnson King is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She previously worked at the University of Southern California and New York University and studied at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and the University of Cambridge. She specializes in moral psychology, metaethics, ethics, epistemology, [] The post Recently Published Book Spotlight: Praiseworthiness 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.

Happy New Year to you all! I hope the year is off to a good start for you. While I wont be asking you about your new years resolutions, I thought it would be a good idea to hear from you about what...

The Hubert L. Dreyfus Foundation, a nonprofit, public benefit corporation founded by Hubert Dreyfuss family following the philosophers death in 2017, is raising funds to establish an audio archive....

Eduardo Mendieta, professor of philosophy at Penn State University, has died. Professor Mendieta, described by some as a giant in Latin American and Latinx philosophy, wrote on various topics in ethics...

The fundraising competition among departments of philosophy to raise funds to fight malaria, launched at the start of this month, has come to an end. Malte Hendrickx (Michigan), who organizes the annual...

New links “Some objects and properties that make up a body are too specific or small—too deep—to properly count as parts of the body in a morally significant sense”  Christopher Register on the ontological...

In a town park in Portugal, prizes dangle just out of reach up a greasy pole. How will the local teens manage to get them? - by Aeon Video ...

Politics today is driven by grievances that can never be assuaged. For democracy’s survival, we must grapple with this dynamic - by Paul Katsafanas...

In rare interviews, Russians speak candidly about their lives in the presence of war – animated to protect their identities - by Aeon Video ...

Medical error kills hundreds of thousands yearly. If AI is sophisticated enough to help, doctors must not stand in the way - by Charlotte Blease...

For Mandeville, humankind has a bottomless need to be liked: it is this perennial craving that forms the foundation of society - by Andrea Branchi...