Yearly Archives: 2026

Environmental Bioethics and the Problem of Interdependence

I find myself bothered by the relationship between bioethics and public health ethics. Is it that the former focuses on individuals and the latter...

APA Member Interview, Mark Coppenger

Mark Coppenger (BA, Ouachita; PhD, Vanderbilt; MDiv, SWBTS) retired in 2019 as Professor of Christian Philosophy and Ethics at SBTS, having also taught full...

Garden as a Performance

Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, the owner of the Muskau Park (now in Germany and Poland), an aristocratic gardener and author of Hints on Landscape...

Economic Democracy as the Redemption of Political Democracy

Economic democracy is most often defended by pointing to the so-called “firm-state analogy.” Hannes Kuch’s recent plea for economic democracy in an earlier post...

Why I Support the Virtual APA: How I Hate Virtual Conferences and Why I Keep Attending Them

The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a mini-series called “Why I Support the Virtual APA.” This post marks the fourth and final installment....

2022 Eastern Division Presidential Address: How Is Forgiveness Always a Gift?

Below is the audio recording of Miranda Fricker’s presidential address, “How Is Forgiveness Always a Gift?” given at the 2022 Eastern Division Meeting. The...

The Perceptual World of Danger

Ludwig Wittgenstein claimed, “The world of a happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.” This is definitely true at least...

How to Handle the Death of the Essay

During our section on Existentialism and the meaning of life in the Introduction to Philosophy course that I just finished TA-ing this Fall, we...

Loving Attention and Aesthetic Appreciation

Might my love of Picasso make me a better partner? Can appreciating artworks improve my capacity for loving attention in my relationships? Philosophers of...

Teaching Normative and Applied Ethics: How, and to What End? Stephen Scher

My new book, Revitalizing Health Care Ethics: The Clinician’s Voice (2025)—co-authored with the psychiatrist Kasia Kozlowska of the University of Sydney Medical School—begins in...

The Moral Life of Organs in an Age of Technological Innovation

Introduction In medicine, technology can refer to anything from antibiotics like penicillin used to treat everyday infections and antivirals that suppress HIV, to dialysis circuits...

Of AI, Unreality and Our Planetary Reality

A few weeks ago, when it was still summer, my partner’s mother was worrying over the arrangements for her 70th birthday party, due to...

The Limits of “Indoctrination” Talk

Many recent debates about education have focused on the idea of indoctrination. The following dialectic is by now familiar: someone points to a concept,...

Not Yet: A Graduate Student’s First Publication

I sat across from my supervisors at the University of New England, discussing what I hoped would become my first peer-reviewed publication. The paper...

Why We Should Doubt that Academic Philosophy Benefits the Broader Public

This post was originally published on Kronika: filozofski magazin and has been republished with the permission of Kronika and the author. I. There are good reasons...