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How Much Room Can We Make for Moral Innocence in Medicine?
We like innocent patients. You know, the ones who take care of their health and suffer from bad luck, not bad judgment. This type...
APA Member Interview: Paul Butterfield
Paul Butterfield is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Alfred University in New York. His primary area of research is interpersonal ethics, and particularly the...
What Can You Be Medically Gaslit About?
The term “gaslighting” can be traced back to Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gas Light (adapted into films in 1940 and 1944), in which a...
Illustrating Buddhist Challenges to Western Substance Metaphysics with I <3 Huckabees’s “The Blanket Thing”
David O. Russell’s I <3 Huckabees (2004), inspired in part by the scholar of Tibetan Buddhism Robert Thurman (father of Uma Thurman), explores a...
Class, Status, and Aesthetics, Clotilde Torregrossa
In 2021, the Diversity Reading List (DRL) conducted research on the teaching provision of the top 10 UK departments. It showed that very little...
Why Is Reducing the Stigma of Psychiatric Disorder(s) So Difficult?
Psychiatric disorders, variously conceptualized, have always been a part of human life. They typically, but not always, are judged as negative differences from so-called...
The Universe May Be Fundamentally Absurd
Absurdism is a philosophy—largely attributed to Albert Camus—who wrote such works as The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus. In his work, Camus challenged...
Beyond “Cute”: Classroom Chicks and the Aims of Education
In the final weeks of the summer term, my five-year-old daughter came home each day with updates on the eggs that they had at...
Trust the System: Democratic Capacities in the Algorithmic Workplace (Part I)
Like all institutions, workplaces socialize those of us within them. They provide a kind of informal education, promoting the development of some skills, habits,...
2024 Eastern Division Presidential Address: Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really...
Below is the audio recording of Lisa Tessman’s presidential address, “Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matter,” given at the 2024...
