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...
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...
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...
How Widow’s Bay Supports a Mystic Epistemology
Nathan Eckstrand is an editor at the Blog of the APA. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not...
When Are Your Feelings Really Yours?
Until the fall of 2008, I would have said I wasn’t afraid of mice. But then, in that fateful autumn, I went to my...
How to Partition Alberta
On October 19, 2026, Albertans will vote on whether their province should secede from Canada. Except that isn’t quite right. Albertans will vote on...
Incongruity, Humor, and Morality in Song
In the 1940s and 1950s, as part of a federal pest and rodent control program, pigeons in Boston were fed corn that had been...
Slacktivism in Academia: Why Strongly Worded Letters and Micro-Protests Rarely Work
Academics reason through problems, create innovative solutions, and often make the world a better place. However, sometimes, they are not the best at fashioning...
Citizens’ Accountability and Epistemic Constraints on Voting
When we think about the ideal democratic citizen, we think about someone who is not only a valuable member of the political community, but...
How Changeable Are the Concepts We Teach?
Recently, there have been some high-profile cases of teachers in schools and universities being asked to stop teaching certain concepts. Race and gender are...