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Michael Della Rocca is a Professor of Philosophy at Yale University who has written extensively on early modern philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. He spoke...

The Blog of the APA is happy to announce “Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology”, a series of authored articles and interviews about the impact of...

What constitutes a moral relationship to knowledge? And what do our institutions have to be like to create the grounds for such a relationship?

Trivia question: which country was the first to pass a public smoking ban? Answer: Nazi Germany. Indeed, German scientists were among the first to...

As part of the Blog of the APA‘s partnership with Exact Editions, we are offering one new book in its entirety for readers to...

Steven M. Cahn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he served for nearly a decade...

With each year, I find my students increasingly concerned about climate change.  A decade ago, their concerns seemed fairly general and abstract.  These days, they are...

Matthew Owen teaches philosophy at Yakima Valley College in Washington State. He talked with Heidi Schmidt about his new book Measuring the Immeasurable Mind: Where...

Stoicism seems to be the philosophical hobby horse of Silicon Valley and a whole host of life-hackers who otherwise wouldn’t be caught dead in...

Something was bugging them, and it wasn't just Headgear (the 90s spellcheck-correction for "Heidegger" on Word). Why do we typically feel that the intellectual position of philosophers - and the work that embodies it - need not represent who they are?