Against the Odds: Defending Defensive Wars
Introduction
Peace is better than war. It takes two to fight. These are truisms: they’re true, but so obvious that they’re not usually worth stating....
The End of the Universe
I have been thinking about time inversion and looked more carefully into arrow of time reversal experiments like the one published in Nature in...
Thinking About Freedom in Wartime Ukraine
In this article, Timothy Snyder recounts his meeting with President Zelensky shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Snyder explores the...
Thinking in Dark Times: Life, Death, and Social Solidarity
In this article, Volodymyr Yermolenko examines the power of ideas to shape social and political events. He is particularly interested in the way misguided...
Philosophy and Current Affairs: The Russia-Ukraine War
According to one founding myth, philosophy begins in ancient Greece with Socrates abstracting from concrete examples of just activity in order to determine the...
Hannah Arendt’s conception of responsibility
This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with Filosofía...
The Irrational Status of the Natural
One of the great antagonisms of the 21st century is that, as culture accelerates into increasingly artificial and commodified forms, manufacturing simulacral financial institutions...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Inquiry Under Bounds
David Thorstad is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, Senior Research Affiliate at the Global Priorities Institute, Oxford, and Research Affiliate at the...
Are You Anthropomorphizing AI?
People frequently anthropomorphize or personify technology, ascribing characteristically human or personal features, states, or abilities to technological artifacts. These might include properties falling under...
Defining and Determining Human Death
Since a groundbreaking 1968 report, vigorous debate has ensued regarding how we ought to conceptually define and clinically determine when a human being has...