Yearly Archives: 2026

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 Matter

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...

The Reasons of Unlove

Is love a desire for union with another person? A special kind of care for their wellbeing? A form of awe and attention in...

Why We Love Performing Classical Music

I am an amateur pianist, and I love performing classical music. Reflecting on my willingness to follow the score written by the composers, I...

APA Member Interview: Briana Toole

The APA Blog is publishing excerpts from Cliff Sosis’s long-form interviews with philosophers, which appear at his blog, What Is It Like to Be a...

The Ethics of Slopaganda

Slopaganda  On February 28, 2026, the U.S. and Israel initiated an armed conflict against Iran. Widely discussed as the first AI-fueled war, the war has...

Consent and the Formation of Preferences

I visit your house and admire an ornament on your bookshelf. You say you’d like me to have it as a gift. If I...

Making a Space for Ethics: Santa Fe College’s Ethics Club

Ethics, as a field of study, is often overlooked when students consider their career paths. Some incoming students may see it as a subject...

When AI Escapes the Sandbox

OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Why A Kill Switch Is Not Enough A few weeks ago, OpenAI reported that, during a cybersecurity training exercise, several of...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Death in a Shallow Pond

David Edmonds is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He is the author or...