Nietzsche and the Machines
The following piece was originally posted in The Philosophers' Magazine.
There is a lot of grandstanding going on today about the ethics of machines. Intellectuals have...
New Technology Research Editor: Interview with Charlie Taben
The Blog of the APA is proud to welcome Charlie Taben as the new Philosophy and Technology Research series editor. Charlie previously worked as an editor...
Smash the Machinery of Time: Asylum Philosophy
Charlotte is a legal guardian. She advocates for youth under the age of 18 seeking asylum in Belgium. I wanted to talk with her about this work.
Recently Published Book Spotlight: How to Play Philosophy
Michael Picard, MSc, PhD writes and teaches philosophy at Douglas College in Vancouver, Canada. He ran Café Philosophy, a weekly public participatory philosophy event...
One Way to Think with Precarity in the Classroom
Having discussed issues of responsibility that come up in the context of structural injustice as well as pathways towards solidarity, for this third post of Precarity and Philosophy, I wanted to turn to how precarity can be addressed in the classroom.
In Tension: Effective Altruism and Mutual Aid
Both Effective Altruism and Mutual Aid are social movements aimed at providing aid and relieving poverty. And yet, there is a tension between a...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Liberating Revolution
Nathan Eckstrand is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University. He is also editor-in-chief of the APA Blog, where he has worked...
A Category Mistake: Benchmarking Ethical Decisions for AI Systems Using Moral Dilemmas
This blog post combines insights from ‘Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines’, published in AI and Ethics, and a related project, ‘Metaethical Perspectives on “Benchmarking”...
Nietzsche’s Fatalism: Interview with Brian Leiter
The central charter of this series is exploring the evolving relationship among science, philosophy, and faith, with a focus on the import of modern...
The Forefront of Research: Davidson and Sellars in Dialogue
In this interview, Willem A. deVries, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and co-editor of the Routledge Studies in American Philosophy book...