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Welcome to our Associate Editor: Nathan Oseroff

I’m pleased to announce the addition of a new member of the editorial team, Nathan Oseroff, as associate editor.  Nathan is a graduate student...
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Lynne Rudder Baker to Give the 2018–2019 Romanell Lecture on Philosophical Naturalism

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Professor Lynne Rudder Baker (University of Massachusetts Amherst) will give the 2018–2019 Romanell Lecture at...
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Black Issues in Philosophy: An Interview with Cornel West

In 2009, I interviewed a group of black intellectuals in the United States while I was researching for my doctoral degree on a study...

APA joins 30+ organizations to issue statement opposing US proposal to tax tuition waivers

Today the American Philosophical Association, along with more than 30 other learned societies, issued a joint statement in opposition to the proposal to tax...
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The Agony and the Ecstasy

We take it for granted that eradicating pain is desirable. And since De Quincey remarked that a quarter of human misery was toothache, remarkable...
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After the End of Evidence

In this week's talk on IAI Player, we consider whether modern physics has paradoxically outgrown the need for evidence. We think science is based on...

Welcome to our new Associate Editor: Jennifer Baker

I'm pleased to announce the addition of a new member of the editorial team, Jennifer Baker, as associate editor.  Jennifer joins us from the...

What Are You Reading…On Friendship

This will be the last column I will write from Fond Du Lac, WI. In a couple days I will move my belongings into...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Sounds of Silence, or Are We Responsible for What...

Recent testimony by James Comey and Jeff Sessions before the Senate Intelligence Committee offers fertile terrain for anyone interested in the nuances of verbal...
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Is it moral to respect the wishes of the dead, above the living?

Imagine what a country would be like if every person could secure a vote in elections that happened after their death. If you stated...