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Many political philosophers argue that all people are entitled as a matter of justice to real access to good work: skilled work that affords workers opportunities for meaningful social cooperation and autonomous decision-making and is performed in decent conditions. In a recent article, I raise the question of how good work might actually be made [] The post Good Work and Economic Democracy first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Within popular culture, literature, television, and film, nostalgia is often (if not invariably) associated with childhood. From Proust to Tarkovsky up to modern outputs such as the Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things and J. J. Abrams’s Super 8, childhood is presented as the site of boundless adventure and infinite pleasure. But what does it mean to [] The post Nostalgic Longing for Childhood first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Caroline Wall is a Ph.D. candidate at Boston University who works in ethics, value theory, and 19th-century history of philosophy. She has published on Nietzsche’s account of value creation, and her current projects draw from figures such as Hegel, Scheler, and Cavell to respond to contemporary work in ethics. Link to your website: https://www.caroline-wall.com What [] The post APA Member Interview, Caroline Wall first appeared on Blog of the APA .

This series on Philosophy and Technology has construed technology broadly, often focusing on the relationship among faith, science, and philosophy. Several pieces have discussed Spinoza, and one of the original posts with Michael Della Rocca, on his book The Parmenidean Ascent, drew parallels between a strict form of Rationalism and modern physics. At the same time, the series leverages [] The post Recommendation: U.K. Spinoza Circle first appeared on Blog of the APA .

At the end of the twentieth century, the end of the Cold War suggested that freedom and democracy were the name of the game. The launch of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s promised a free flow of information and knowledge as well as borderless access to people across the connected world. Democracy [] The post Why We Need a Formal, Mandatory, and Remunerated “Citizen Lobby” 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.

To what extent has the development of AI over the past several years led to non-academic work for academically-trained philosophers? AI raises questions across various domains of philosophical expertise...

Philosophers of the past 100 years or so have tended to reach peak influence between their early 50s and late 60s, according to a new analysis from Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside). To determine this...

This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more...

Jürgen Habermas, well-known for his influential work in political philosophy and social theory, has died. Professor Habermas wrote extensively on critical social theory, and is often seen as a figure...

Should academics be more conservative? One way to characterize conservatism is as an appreciation of enduring institutions and widespread social practices, flawed as they may beand which are constituted...

Since living requires choosing, we will always feel regret about the paths not taken. But what matters is the future we forge - by Tasha Kleeman...

How do we develop our sense of space? Henri Bergson questioned the very fabric of our reality in his revolutionary work - by Aeon Video Watch...

In the early 20th century, Emmy Noether’s mathematics transcended the physical world. She longed to do the same herself - by Julia Ravanis ...

African philosophical values of harmony and vitality have much to offer our thinking about what we owe to ourselves - by Thaddeus Metz Read...

These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it - by Aeon Video Watch...