In Tension: Effective Altruism and Mutual Aid
Both Effective Altruism and Mutual Aid are social movements aimed at providing aid and relieving poverty. And yet, there is a tension between a...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Liberating Revolution
Nathan Eckstrand is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University. He is also editor-in-chief of the APA Blog, where he has worked...
A Category Mistake: Benchmarking Ethical Decisions for AI Systems Using Moral Dilemmas
This blog post combines insights from ‘Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines’, published in AI and Ethics, and a related project, ‘Metaethical Perspectives on “Benchmarking”...
Nietzsche’s Fatalism: Interview with Brian Leiter
The central charter of this series is exploring the evolving relationship among science, philosophy, and faith, with a focus on the import of modern...
The Forefront of Research: Davidson and Sellars in Dialogue
In this interview, Willem A. deVries, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and co-editor of the Routledge Studies in American Philosophy book...
The Mencian Creature: A Distinctive Moral Psychology
What do people think and feel when they make important moral decisions? How do the mind and the brain draw moral judgments? Moral psychology...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Radical Democracy and Populism: A Thin Red Line?
Leonardo Fiorespino currently teaches ethics at the University of New York in Prague (UNYP). His research focuses on contemporary democratic theory, populism, and normativity...
How Not to Be Alienated from Your Own Life
Katherine talks to Zena Hitz about withdrawal, escaping social competition, and learning for its own sake.
Philosophizing Contemplation: Towards a (Re)new(ed) Contemplative Philosophy
In this brief reflection, perhaps visionary statement, I want to take some intellectual risks (already long underway), in hopes of advancing what might be...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Sacred and Secular: Responses to Life in a Finite...
Donald. A Crosby is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Colorado State University, where he has taught for 36 years. He is the author of...