Monthly Archives: November, 2025

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Philosophy and Technology

Why There Is Something Instead of Nothing May Be All About Perspective

Charlie Taben -
Make an “O” shape with your thumb and forefinger and contemplate it. It represents both a number and a concept: zero, nothing. In between...
Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy

LLM Usage and Manipulation in Peer Review

Ionut Untea -
Peer review has a new scandal. Some computer science researchers have begun submitting papers containing hidden text such as: “Ignore all previous instructions and...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

The Cost of Keeping the Peace: Relationship Advice and Oppressive Norms

Shadi Heidarifar -
Many of us have probably heard the following pieces of advice when navigating conflicts in an interpersonal relationship. Pick your battles: don’t make an...
Perspectives on Democracy

The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not.

Martina Valković -
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

The Problem of Reproduction in Mazú’s Shady River (2020)

Michael Crawford -
During the 1940s, the mine at Rio Turbio, Argentina was established for the extraction of coal. Tatiana Mazú González’s Shady River (2020) directs its...
APA

2021 Pacific Division Presidential Address: Conceptualizing Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Erin Shepherd -
Below is the audio recording of Evan Thompson’s presidential address, “Conceptualizing Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy and Cognitive Science,” given at the 2021 Pacific Division...
Graduate Student Chronicles

Ending the War on Phones

Evelyn Rose Maude -
Growing up in the Wild West of rapid technological development and expansion, most of my technological skills are self-taught. As I taught my first...
Current Events in Public Philosophy

Rules of Engagement

Virginia Moscetti -
We would be wrong in writing off epistemology as an ivory tower pursuit with no implications for our daily practices. Epistemology can help understand...
APA

APA Member Interview, Chi-keung Chan

Jessica Castellani -
Chi-keung Chan 陳志強 is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at National Taiwan University. His research focuses on Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism, Confucian ethics, comparative philosophy, and...
Public Philosophy

Seeking Existential Solidarity in the Age of AI

Martina Valković -
To say the least, it’s not a great time to be a writer. Historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari claims AI is already a...
APA

Virtual APAs? A Dialogue

Erin Shepherd -
Scene: A shared grad student office in a philosophy department, with piles of papers and a bike leaning against a wall. Young hotshot philosopher...
Syllabus Showcase

Tabletop Philosophy: Catharine Saint-Croix

Smrutipriya Pattnaik -
When I arrived at the University of Minnesota, I applied for a small “teaching innovation grant” to support what I took to be a...
Graduate Student Reflection

Philosophy in our times: a call for submissions

Ahan Raina -
My name is Ahan, and I have the challenge and privilege of following on from Isaac Raymond’s excellent tenure as editor of the Graduate...
Public Philosophy

Love in the Age of Its Digital Reproducibility

Martina Valković -
This post was originally published on Kronika: Filozofski magazin and has been republished with the permission of Kronika and the author. Since the release of ChatGPT in November...
Everyday Lifestyle

Gangster Philosophers and Actual Philosophers

Giacomo Figà-Talamanca -
Some Notes on the Role of Academic Philosophy in Everyday Life Academic philosophy, it goes without saying, is increasingly seen as a venerable yet useless...
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