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Around 42.5 million refugees worldwide have been forced to flee their own states and are unable to return because of severe threats to their lives, human rights, or basic needs. Having fled these threats, the vast majority have by no means found protection. Instead, most refugees live either in squalid refugee camps or face destitution [] The post The Ethics of Refugee Protection first appeared on Blog of the APA .

As announced earlier this year, the APA’s three divisions collectively decided to suspend the  2+1 experiment, returning to hosting only in-person divisional meetings beginning in 2027. In making this difficult decision, the divisional executive committees recognized the importance of values underlying the 2+1 experiment, especially accessibility, inclusion, and sustainability. We are now organizing a community [] The post Survey and Community Conversation about APA Online Programming first appeared on Blog of the APA .

For a philosopher whose ideas have rippled across logic, metaphysics, mathematics, and beyond, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz remains surprisingly under-translated. Descartes has his Cambridge edition; Spinoza has his Hackett and Princeton volumes; Kant has the Cambridge series. Leibniz, by contrast, has long been served by overlapping “best of” anthologies, many now outdated and based on unreliable [] The post A New Three Volume Edition of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers (1677–1686) first appeared on Blog of the APA .

The actors in Heated Rivalry don’t leave much to the imagination. While many viewers tuned in for the steamier shower, penthouse, or cabin scenes, some are starting to ask for more personal details. Surprisingly, they’re not asking about the characters Ilya Rozanov or Shane Hollander, but the actors that portray them, Connor Storrie and Hudson [] The post Why Casting Isn’t Coming Out: Heated Rivalry and Sexual Orientation first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Every Sunday for two years, from October 2023 to October 2025, protesters gathered in the center of Melbourne, Australia, to march against Israel’s war on Gaza. With numbers sometimes swelling to up to 25,000, the protests became a recurring moment for those horrified by the IDF’s actions to come together and share their anger and [] The post Protesting For Our Humanity 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.

Emily Rolfe Grosholz, professor emerita of philosophy, English, and African American studies at Penn State, has died. Professor Grosholzs philosophical work ranged across topics in philosophy of math...

A new website describes and tracks the interconnections between 222 theories of consciousness across various disciplines. The Map of Consciousness was developed by Ricardo Forcano, the chief technology...

Christy Mag Uidhir will be giving up his position as professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. Readers may recall that the administration at the University of Houston had adopted the indoctrination...

Some philosophy professors, realizing that many of their students are unfamiliar with writing philosophy papers, provide them with how-to guides to the task. [Originally posted on January 15, 2019....

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...

What if the tools for sustainable space exploration could be found in cellular life on Earth? A NASA astrobiologist explains - by Aeon Video...

Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture - by Kiran Kumbhar Read...

In rural Iran, Sahar faces a stark choice: stay at home to look after her father, or go to the city to pursue her education - by Aeon Video ...

Brilliance and kindness shine brightest when far from the comfortable centre. Even nature is more generative there too - by Charles Foster ...

Ancient Athenians chose leaders by lottery rather than elections. Could this solve the problems facing democracy today? - by Aeon Video Watch...