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Over the past two decades, we have watched the pillars of public knowledge gradually weaken. John Stuart Mill is probably turning in his grave at this. From social media platforms creating echo chambers and filter bubbles to the flood of user-generated content drowning out expertise to online hostility and ideological policing driving censorship (self-imposed or [] The post When Society Stops Knowing How to Know first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Megan Craig is an artist, essayist, and Associate Professor Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology and (with Edward S. Casey) Thinking in Transit: Explorations of Life in Motion. www.megancraig.com Instagram: @waterstreetprojects What is your favorite sound in the world? Rain, church bells, cicadas in [] The post APA Members Interview, Megan Craig first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Paul Schrader crafted his 2018 film First Reformed to be, among other things, an extended phenomenological argument that transcendence requires moving beyond the physical world. At the same time, First Reformed does something philosophically richer and stranger than what Schrader set out to do—and its most powerful moments point toward a very different account of [] The post Immanence All the Way Down (and Across): Horizontal Transcendence in First Reformed first appeared on Blog of the APA .

In my recent discussion sections for Philosophy of Science at UCLA, we’ve been working through Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn famously lays out the notion of a paradigm shift: a fundamental re-evaluation of the basic assumptions and methods that constitute normal scientific practice. In unpacking this concept with my students, I’ve felt an [] The post AI and Teaching: Inviting Reflections on Teaching in the Age of AI first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Nostalgia, “Again,” and Who Gets to Count The slogan: “Make America Great Again” works by inviting us to long for a past that was ordered, stable, and allegedly better than the present, without ever specifying for whom it was great or what made it so. When that nostalgia is cashed out in concrete proposals about [] The post Sisyphus in the Kitchen: The Tradwife Brand and the Closed Menu of Women’s Lives 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.

Mark Murphy, currently professor and chair of philosophy at Georgetown University, will be moving to the University of Notre Dame. Professor Murphy is known for his work in moral philosophy, philosophy...

Earlier this week, it was reported that Russian Philosopher Svetlana Mesyats was placed under house arrest and the offices and homes of several other employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the...

Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? Has your department considered an AI policy but held off on writing or implementing...

Russian Philosopher Svetlana Mesyats is under house arrest and the offices and homes of several other employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences were searched, according...

New virtual writing groups for people working on dissertations in philosophy are forming now. Joshua Smart (St. Bonaventure University), once again, is organizing them. He writes in with the following...

Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments - by Dorian Bandy Read...

In the early 1970s, genetic engineers launched the most controversial revolution in science since the atomic bomb - by Aeon Video Watch on...

Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique - by Eliane Glaser...

Selinna is 15 when she leaves her home in Nigeria, bound for Italy, a journey as perilous as it is transformative - by Aeon Video Watch on...

The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses - by Alvina Hoffmann...