Monthly Archives: February, 2026

Normothermic Regional Perfusion, the Dead Donor Rule, and the Metaphysics of Causation

Over the last decade, a novel method of organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) known as normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) has come into widespread...

APA Member Interview, Stacy S. Chen

Stacy S. Chen is a PhD candidate and SSHRC doctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University...

When Gender Policing Backfires

Recently, I was coming home from a conference, and I had just gotten through TSA at an airport that I had been to before....

Combating “Opinion”: Gilles Deleuze Meets Timothy “Speed” Levitch

Below we find a clip from The Cruise, a 1998 documentary by Bennett Miller that follows the now-infamous New York City tour bus guide...

2022 Eastern Division Dewey Lecture: “Thinking in Good Company”

Below is the audio recording of Christine M. Korsgaard’s John Dewey Lecture, “Thinking in Good Company,” given at the 2022 Eastern Division Meeting. The...

‘Totalitarian’ Technologies and the Transformation of the Political World: A Radical Cold War Critique

“The world in which we live today and which surrounds us, is a technological one,” wrote Günther Anders in 1979. The Cold War world,...

What’s Love Got to Do With It: Chatbot Wives and Lonely Hearts

As if stealing our data, copyrighted material including books, music, and films, and quite possibly many of our jobs, was not enough, AI seems...

APA Member Interview, Emanuele Costa

Emanuele Costa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His work is at the intersection of early modern philosophy and...

Why We Should Stop “Networking”: On the Intrinsic Value of Connection

The term networking has become ubiquitous today. From networking platforms such as LinkedIn to networking events at conferences, the practice of networking has become...

Democratizing the Economy through Community Wealth Building: Recent Lessons from the UK and Poland

In a recent post in this series, Hannes Kuch presented the case for economic democracy. Just as we balk at the thought of being...

The Best Available Parent

Few things are more mundane than becoming a parent. One, or one’s partner, gives birth to a child; one takes the baby home, if...

“Philosophical Projects: Bringing Everyday Life into Intro to Philosophy,” Mateo Duque

I have been teaching Introduction to Philosophy at least once a year since 2012, beginning in my second year of graduate school at the...

What May We Hope for After Thirty Years of Failed Climate Summits?

In his 1795 essay Towards Perpetual Peace, Immanuel Kant prophesied that the “spirit of commerce” would drive countries to unite in perpetual peace, not...

APA Member Interview, Phil Corkum

Phil Corkum is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta; he previously taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He works on ancient...

Philosophy, Technology, and Mortality

This APA Blog series has broadly explored philosophy and technology with a throughline on the influence of technology and AI on well-being. This month’s post...