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Philosophy continues to rely on a particular fiction of the knower. Serious thought is still imagined to require a subject who appears autonomous, self-regulating, and detached from experience. Credibility within the discipline depends less on the quality of inquiry than on the performance of maturity. Detachment functions as an index of reason, and adulthood operates [] The post Philosophy as Children: Rethinking Adulthood as the Measure of Reason first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Over the last decade, a novel method of organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) known as normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) has come into widespread use in various European countries. Although DCD is well established in the U.S., NRP has generated significant controversy, and the American College of Physicians (ACP) has issued a statement recommending a [] The post Normothermic Regional Perfusion, the Dead Donor Rule, and the Metaphysics of Causation first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Stacy S. Chen is a PhD candidate and SSHRC doctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Her research interests are in clinical ethics and global health ethics, informed by her background in international relations and bioethics. Professional Website: www.stacyschen.com What are you working on right [] The post APA Member Interview, Stacy S. Chen first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Recently, I was coming home from a conference, and I had just gotten through TSA at an airport that I had been to before. I noticed something that I had noticed the previous time I was there, which is a startlingly long line. The line that I had noticed previously is the line to the [] The post When Gender Policing Backfires first appeared on Blog of the APA .

Below we find a clip from The Cruise, a 1998 documentary by Bennett Miller that follows the now-infamous New York City tour bus guide Timothy “Speed” Levitch on some of his untraditional excursions into the “total cacophony” that is New York. In the clip, Levitch recalls a conversation wherein he denounces the city grid plan, [] The post Combating “Opinion”: Gilles Deleuze Meets Timothy “Speed” Levitch 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.

Are all happy classrooms alike? Probably not. But perhaps theres some qualities common to many of them. In the following guest post, Daniel Story, assistant professor of philosophy at California Polytechnic...

Malcolm Budd, emeritus professor of philosophy at University College London, has died. Professor Budd was especially well-known for his work in the philosophy of art and music and on the philosophy...

Michelle Beer, professor of philosophy at Florida International University, has died. Professor Beer taught at FIU from 1982 until her retirement in December 2025. A specialist in metaphysics and the...

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With measures borrowed from historys totalitarian regimes, political leaders in Florida are taking unprecedented steps to indoctrinate students and prevent them from learning about the world in ways...

From art to religion to sex, instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value. But life is about more than material benefits - by Julian...

We may know Pompeii for its destruction, but this intricate 3D rendering brings to life what a bustling city it once was - by Aeon Video Watch...

Ecology is pervaded by a nativist dogma against invasive species that distorts the science and undermines wildness - by Carlos Santana Read...

If our ethical beliefs come from our social environment, how do some people find the moral courage to defy convention? - by Dane Leigh Gogoshin...

Amid growing cultural panic about the use of AI in writing, we’re missing the most important point: AI cannot write - by Aeon Video Watch...