“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
- Rebecca Millsop & Eugene Chislenko founded Philosophers for Sustainability in order to change the profession. With 150 members in 17 countries in its first two years, PfS is going strong. […]
- Spencer Case is an international research fellow at Wuhan University in China. He finished his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018. He is a US Army veteran […]
- The Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs has been jointly sponsored by the APA and the PDC since 1999. It recognizes philosophy departments, research centers, institutes, societies, publishers, […]
- As part of the Blog of the APA‘s partnership with Exact Editions, we are offering one new book by Broadview Press in its entirety for readers to enjoy until February […]
- 1:40 PM CST. I am writing this on January 6, 2021, the day of the Electoral College vote certification, while watching ABC News through Hulu after receiving an urgent text […]
- I teach an upper level General Philosophy of Science course every other year. My institution is a mid-sized R2 that primarily serves the local, urban region. The course is available […]
- The American Philosophical Association has made four new appointments to the Graduate Student Council (GSC). Congratulations to the new appointees, who will begin their two-year terms on July 1, 2021: […]
- By James Cantres Steve McQueen’s five-part film anthology Small Axe portrays various strains of Black British life from the 1960s through 1980s. Each film gives ample opportunity to explore a […]
- One of the many controversies precipitated by the January 6th unrest at the Capitol has been a terminological controversy around words like ‘sedition’, ‘insurrection’, ‘coup’, and even ‘civil war’. Of […]
- The APA is pleased to announce that Heather Spradley (Harvard University) has been awarded the 2021 William James Prize for her paper, “Inquiring While Believing.” The Eastern Division awards the […]
- The exhaustion – and perhaps the sadness – comes from saying goodbye to our old lifeI’m sure everyone after their first plague year feels totally knackered.You can just imagine them […]
- My time in Europe transformed my outlook; those who think Brexit is all about trade deals ignore what else was at stakeThe prime minister offered the country a “feast” this […]
- He laid out his rules for a free and fair society 50 years ago. In a polarised age, his bestselling book is again stirring debateIn the extraordinary aftermath of the […]
- Ironically, rightwing politicians have invented a zombie ‘postmodernism’ that cannot be killed by factsAcademics in the UK have been known, in moments of weakness, to look wistfully across the Channel […]
- We will never find satisfactory proof that things are going to turn out all right, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. The trick is to look for something elseI’ve been an […]
- 'I could make a little difference in the world but it seems like a lot of work. Is it worth trying?'The point of this sort of effort isn’t success, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. It’s to engage with something bigger than ourselvesI’ve found a perfect way to make a little […]
- The philosopher’s new book attacks the idea that any ideology has the answers to life’s questions – but advice from cats might be his exception… What’s it like to be […]
- Every day, people leave their quandaries on the Reddit website – asking others to judge whether they were in the wrong. As religion wanes, are we crowdsourcing our ethics?First of […]
- In his mid-30s, the actor was living the dream, but was far from happy. As he publishes his memoir Out of My Mind, he talks about turning his life around […]
- How one magic word became a way of justifying Silicon Valley’s unconstrained power. By Adrian Daub Continue reading…
- Ideological rifts widen as Catholic bishops ponder endangered forests and married priests
- Islam’s followers are not so much firebrands as nomads in search of a home
- Conflicts within Slavic Orthodoxy are having some strange side effects
- Why Islamic debates over slavery matter to everyone
- Despite the abolition of outdated laws, a culture of freedom is failing to take hold
- A cherished tradition of independence can lead to abuses and poor management
- Church leaders in central and eastern Europe remain surprisingly loth to condemn their old adversaryThe extraordinary events of 1989 are half-forgotten as clerics look elsewhere
- It offers a fixed point in a transitory world
- From the Roman to the Abrahamic, the prime minister’s spiritual history is a mess
- Building bridges between an anti-racist movement and a conservative faith
- The glittering city-states of the Persian Gulf fit the classicist Moses Finley’s criteria of genuine slave societiesBy Bernard FreamonRead at Aeon
- With fewer than 70 wolves left in Norway, the debate over their protection is dividing communitiesBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon
- A pang of hunger, a stab of pain, a sense of dread – these experiences emerge on the shore where biology and culture meetBy Mallory Feldman & Kristen LindquistRead at Aeon
- Free like a street dog: cynicism evolved from ‘dog philosophers’ such as Diogenes who rejected materialism and mannersBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon
- ‘Natural’ remedies are metaphysically inconsistent and unscientific. Yet they offer something that modern medicine cannotBy Alan Jay LevinovitzRead at Aeon
- The immersive exhibition populating London with surreal digital sculptures by Olafur Eliasson, KAWS, Cao Fei and moreBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon
- Samuel Beckett turned an obscure 17th-century Christian heresy into an artistic vision and an unusual personal philosophyBy Andy WimbushRead at Aeon
- The skilled manipulator casts a shadow of doubt over everything that you feel or think. Therapy can bring the daylight inBy Ramani DurvasulaRead at Aeon
- How do ants that can’t chew their own food survive? They kidnap other ant species and commit them to a life of servitudeBy Aeon VideoWatch at Aeon
- The exclusion of poorer people from their own neighbourhoods is not just a social problem but a philosophical oneBy Daniel PutnamRead at Aeon
- It's thought that Newton's Principia was such a monster of technical detail that few read it. That's a myth, it turns out
- Robert Gottlieb on Harold Bloom: "It is a tremendous pity that the final statement from a critic of such significance…should be this disjointed effort"
- 19th-century science supposedly elevated the disinterested mind over human vitality. But Alexander von Humboldt’s story challenges that narrative
- Oligarchs stepped in to bolster the arts in post-Soviet Russia. But is the work they have bankrolled any good?
- What are dreams? A kind of theater of the unconscious? Random neural firings? A Darwinian adaptation?
- Derrida and Foucault are often categorized by their critics as like-minded thinkers. In fact, they spent most of their lives disagreeing
- Should artificial intelligence model the brain or the mind? The debate has led to a fractious split in the field
- Young people rush to join the creative class of artists and academics. But beware the sacrifices that come with doing what you love
- Conspiracy theories have always existed and always will. The problem isn’t with the theories, but with our susceptibility to them
- Darwin in space. If there is life on other planets, it will have evolved along the same lines as life on earth
- by editor Anne Schult The post Epidemic Empire: An Interview with Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb (Part II) appeared first on JHI Blog.
- by editor Anne Schult The post Epidemic Empire: An Interview with Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb (Part I) appeared first on JHI Blog.
- Goings-on in intellectual history for mid-late January. The post Intellectual History News and Events appeared first on JHI Blog.
- The JHI annual Graduate Student Symposium on "Irrational Ideas: Thinking Against Conventions" The post CfP: The JHI 2021 Graduate Symposium appeared first on JHI Blog.
- by guest contributor Yanara Schmacks The post The Woman as “Work-Machine”: Gender and Anticommunism in Postwar Germany appeared first on JHI Blog.
- by guest contributor Christopher Porzenheim The post Emerson on Kant: A Metaphysician Not Worth Reading appeared first on JHI Blog.
