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AI Rights Revisited
Eric Schwitzgebel, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and University of California MacArthur Foundation Chair, has been a long-term friend of the APA Blog. Most recently, he...
Can Philosophical Practice Be a Profession Without Becoming Self-Help?
Not long ago, a colleague who teaches at a university told me that they had considered training in philosophical counselling, but were warned that...
Women in Academia: Will We Ever Get a Fair Chance?
In May 2026, in Vienna, there was a four-day conference organized by Langer Circle, a group promoting the work of Susanne Langer (1895-1985), one...
From Plan Choice to Rule Choice: Rethinking Democratic Economic Planning
Amidst widening inequality, stagnating living standards, and a fossil-fuel-driven climate crisis, a vital question has reemerged: can we establish a better economic system? In...
2024 Pacific Division Presidential Address: Collective Belief: Kinds, Contexts, and Consequences
Below is the audio recording of Margaret Gilbert’s presidential address, “Collective Belief: Kinds, Contexts, and Consequences,” given at the 2024 Pacific Division Meeting. The...
I Do Analytic Jurisprudence. This Is Why It Matters
This August, law professor Lawrence B. Solum published a blog directed to law students entitled, “Why Read The Concept of Law by Hart?” The Concept...
Forgiveness Has Left the Chat
Earlier this year, Anthropic announced an update to its usage policy prohibiting “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its AI models. The...
Do We Have a Moral Duty to Make the Future Go Best?
Imagine that a government has £1 billion to spend. They can either spend it on improving schools and hospitals now, or, instead, they can...
The Stubborn Psychologization of Pain (Part 2)
The Issues in Philosophy Series is running a two-part mini-series entitled “The Stubborn Psychologization of Pain.” This mini-series is authored by Tiina Rosenqvist, who...
Yes, ‘science does not think.’ What’s the problem?
In his lecture Was heißt Denken? (What Is Called Thinking?), delivered as part of his 1951-52 university lecture courses in Freiburg, Martin Heidegger uttered...
