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Ahimsic Communication: An Alternative to Civility
When it comes to contentious conversations, the call for civility is commonplace. Rarely do we hear a call for nonviolence in communication. This is unfortunate, since nonviolence is a better standard than civility (which I critiqued in part one of this three-part series). Part of the problem is that...
APA announces Fall 2024 prize winners
The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 16 prizes for the second half of 2024. APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophy research by philosophers at various career stages, as well as the teaching of philosophy and public philosophy. For more details about the winners and...
What (else) do Students Want from Medical Ethics?
One way to teach Medical Ethics courses is to start with theory and then work through a series of pro/con pieces on abortion, euthanasia, using non-human animals in research, organ markets, etc. It’s a standard approach and for good reason: it introduces students to the moral aspects of these...
How to Save Honesty in Human Subject Research
In human subject research, we often face an ethical question: is it ever justifiable to deceive participants? After all, deception can be effective in getting unbiased data in studies where the awareness of the experiment’s purpose is likely to change how participants behave. Yet, there is a deeper ethical...
APA Member Interview: Rami El Ali
Bio: Rami El Ali works on the philosophy of perception, technology, and phenomenology. He is currently pursuing a second PhD focusing on virtual reality at the University of Arizona’s School of Information. He was previously associate professor and head of the philosophy program at the Lebanese American University, and...
AI Can’t Replace Teachers (Entirely)
Alpha School in Austin, Texas has no teachers. Students instead spend two hours a day studying core subjects “taught” by an AI-powered software program. True to Silicon Valley’s educational ideals, the school argues this approach gives students time to practice “life-skills” like coding, entrepreneurship, and public speaking.
The school claims...
Letting Go of the Prime Mover: Interpreting Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Studying ancient philosophical works might seem to many students like an antiquated endeavor, akin to reading Euclid’s Elements or Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy when compared to the empirical sciences. However, in philosophy, especially metaphysics, I’ve realized this is not the case. Metaphysics, which inherently involves thinking beyond,...
Introduction to Ethics, Steph Butera
Most students at the University of Memphis come from within the state, and most of those students come from high schools in the same county as the University. According to a 2022 report, less than a quarter of K-12 students in Memphis-Shelby County tested at grade level for English...
Loneliness and Philosophy: On Loneliness and Obligation
Disclaimer: Huw Davies is an editor for the APA Blog. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of the American Philosophical Association or the Blog of the APA.
Over seventy years ago, Hannah Arendt sought to find the...
Donald Trump and The Specter of Kurt Gödel’s Contradiction
Some might wonder what if any relationship exists between the Austrian born mathematician, logician, and philosopher Kurt Gödel, best known for his contributions to mathematics and logic in the twentieth century, and the New York-born President-elect Donald Trump, a real estate mogul turned politician. Probably few people outside the...
