Monthly Archives: February, 2025

Falling in Love with Machines – Do AI Systems Deserve Rights?

This essay originally appeared in Time in March of 2024 “Do you think people will ever fall in love with machines?” I asked the 12-year-old...

From Human to Cyborg: Art, Technology, and the Redefinition of Human Identity

Throughout the past century, technology's integration into the human body has redefined our understanding of identity, autonomy, and what it means to be human....

Democracy and Future Generations: A Philosophical Minefield

Democracy and future generations have a thorny relationship. On the one hand, democratic countries provide better for the well-being of future generations than autocracies...

Philosophy of Language, Landon D. C.Elkind

This syllabus is designed for a course that introduces students to some issues in the philosophy of language. There are seven-ish units to the...

Making a Club for Everyone

In good ol’ philosophy fashion, we may ask, what is a club and what should a club be like? The following is merely a...

Reconciling the Manifest and Scientific Images of Addiction

Addiction can be studied empirically from a dizzying number of angles. Scientists study how it is realized in the brain, its costs to society,...

The Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2025 Award Winners

The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the Frantz Fanon, Nicolas Guillén, Stuart Hall, Claudia Jones, and Anna Julia Cooper...

Community Service in Graduate School

During my undergraduate years, I was a youth soccer coach. I became involved in coaching, oddly enough, in the same way that a lot...

Collective Final Projects or: Who’s Actually in This Class?, Ryan Johnson

Shockingly Simple RealizationsI used to dread grading. In-class discussion thrilled me, but the grading was terrible. Or at least until I realized something shockingly...

The APA Now and Then

I have been in APA administration for 25 years. In January of 2000, I began an 18–month term as acting executive director. Shortly after...

A Graduate Student’s Nightmare

Those who supervise or assess dissertations should recognize that the power they exercise is easily abused and can result in the destruction of careers....

Philosophy Goes Digital: Inside the APA’s Virtual Meeting Experiment

This February, the APA is embarking on an experiment, and we need your help. In response to a petition, backed up by a survey of...

The Process of Dying: Physiology and Philosophy of The End of Life

This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with Filosofía...

Origami and the Beauty of Harmony

As most philosophers, I am a nervous wreck. And as a nervous wreck, I have struggled in the past to find ways to unwind...