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2025/07/05

My father spent at least 40 years of his life working to develop an internally-driven perpetual motion machine. And I was a true believer, at least up until college.My father held no stock in supposed refutations by mathematicians and physicists of the possibility of such a perpetual motion machine. He disagreed that such a machine would violate one or more of the laws of motion and thermodynamics, and firmly held that in the early 1700s Johann Bessler (better known under the pseudonym “Orffyreus”)

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The Free Rider Problem

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2025/07/05

[New Entry by Garrett Cullity on July 4, 2025.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Garrett Cullity replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.] In many contexts, the efficient production of a good by a group is… The post The Free Rider Problem appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Feminist Philosophy of Language

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2025/07/04

[Revised entry by Jennifer Saul, Esa Diaz-Leon, and Samia Hesni on July 4, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Feminist philosophy of language has come a long way in a very short time period. Initially, most work in the area was critical, calling for changes either to language itself or to philosophy of language. More […] The post Feminist Philosophy of Language appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Nyāya Sūtra—On Philosophical Method: Sanskrit Text,...

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2025/07/04

2025.07.1 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Victor A. van Bijlert, Nyāya Sūtra—On Philosophical Method: Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary, Routledge, 2024, 251pp., $180.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781032758381. Reviewed by Stephen H. Phillips, Professor Emeritus, The University of Texas at Austin Within ancient and classical Indian literature, sūtra texts are comprised of […] The post Nyāya Sūtra—On Philosophical Method: Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary appeared

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APA Announces the Milton K. Munitz Prize and Lenore...

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2025/07/03

The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Milton K. Munitz Prize in Metaphysics, Ontology, and Cosmology and the Lenore Bloom Munitz Prize in Value Theory, Social Philosophy, and Civic Virtue. The Munitz Prizes are established with the APA by the Milton K. Munitz Society in honor of Milton K. […] The post APA Announces the Milton K. Munitz Prize and Lenore Bloom Munitz Prize first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post APA Announces the Milton K

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Isaac Albalag

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2025/07/02

[Revised entry by Bakinaz Abdalla on July 2, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Isaac Albalag stands out as one of the most rigorous representatives of the Jewish Averroism school which flourished in Western Europe in the thirteenth century and continued until the Renaissance. This school contained notable figures such as Ibn Kaspi, Shem […] The post Isaac Albalag appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Leadership, Elevators, and Missing Car Payments: A...

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2025/07/02

On the wall of the bookshelf in my office is a poem, “If” the Most Powerful Word in the English Language. The poem reads as a stream of aphorisms all beginning with ‘If.’ It is unpublished, written by a middle-aged man who successfully made it through a 2-week substance abuse early recovery program. I was […] The post Leadership, Elevators, and Missing Car Payments: A Reflection on Aphorisms in Recovery first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Leadership, Elevators, and Missing Car Payments: A

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The Precautionary Approach to AI: Less Human, More...

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2025/07/01

Have you ever caught yourself thanking Siri or saying please to ChatGPT? If so, you’re not alone. Evolutionary forces, social norms, and design features all make us naturally inclined to treat these technologies like people. Since bots that look, sound, and act like us are already pervasive, where is the technology heading? The most likely […] The post The Precautionary Approach to AI: Less Human, More Honest first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post The Precautionary Approach to AI: Less Human,

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Some Thoughts on the Indian Freedom Struggle in Light...

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2025/07/01

Kama Maclean and Benjamin Zachariah write that the humiliation of colonial rule necessitates violence, citing Fanon’s assertion that violence “frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect” (80). Maclean and Zachariah propose that M. K. Gandhi’s path of nonviolent civil disobedience and […] The post Some Thoughts on the Indian Freedom Struggle in Light of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and M. K. Gandhi’s

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Personal Identity and Ethics

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2025/06/30

[New Entry by Annette Dufner and David Shoemaker on June 30, 2025.] We think of ourselves as temporally extended beings. We do not just exist in the moment. Most of us have been around for a few years and will, hopefully, continue to exist in the future. We also believe that we are individuals whose […] The post Personal Identity and Ethics appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Arabic and Islamic Metaphysics

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2025/06/30

[Revised entry by Amos Bertolacci on June 30, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Among the Greek philosophical disciplines transmitted to the Arabic and Islamic world, metaphysics was of paramount importance, as its pivotal role in the overall history of the transmission of Greek thought into Arabic culture makes evident. The beginnings of Arabic philosophy […]The post Arabic and Islamic Metaphysics appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Fear

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2025/06/28

Being a featured background actor on Gotham (Fox), I spend a lot of time thinking about the fictional Gotham City of DC Comics. Years ago, I pitched a female version of the supervillain Scarecrow (named Hayley Fever) to DC editors. They didn’t respond. Notwithstanding my yet-to-be-published comic book debut, the Scarecrow is one of the most interesting graphic novel characters. Unlike other Gothamites who are based on humor, wealth, brute strength, immortality and fire, the slender man in the potato

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Recently Published Book Spotlight: Biotechnology,...

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2025/06/27

Elizabeth Chloe Romanis is an Associate Professor in Biolaw at Durham Law School, University of Durham in the U.K. Chloe does research in healthcare law and bioethics with a particular interest in reproduction and the body (abortion, gestation, pregnancy, and birth). Chloe’s principal publications concern artificial placenta/womb technology. While writing this book, Chloe was a […] The post Recently Published Book Spotlight: Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law first appeared on Blog of the

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Truth

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2025/06/27

[Revised entry by Michael Glanzberg on June 27, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a topic of discussion in its own right for thousands of years. Moreover, a huge variety of issues in philosophy relate to […] The post Truth appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Epistemic Foundations of Game Theory

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2025/06/27

[Revised entry by Eric Pacuit and Olivier Roy on June 27, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html, supplement.html] Non-cooperative game theory studies how individual players, or agents, make decisions in situations involving strategic interaction. In these situations, each player’s outcome depends not only on their own choices but also on the choices of the […] The post Epistemic Foundations of Game Theory appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Regret

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2025/06/27

2025.06.15 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Paddy McQueen, Regret, Oxford University Press, 2024, 294pp., $90.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780197651384. Reviewed by Max Lewis, Yale University If to err is human, then so too is to regret. At least if we follow Paddy McQueen in his recent book about the nature, normativity, […] The post Regret appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Intuition in Kant: The Boundlessness of Sense

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2025/06/27

2025.06.14 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Daniel Smyth, Intuition in Kant: The Boundlessness of Sense, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 260pp., $110.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781009330312. Reviewed by Rosalind Chaplin, UNC Chapel Hill In the opening sentences of the Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant writes that intuition is that through which cognition relates immediately […] The post Intuition in Kant: The Boundlessness of Sense appeared first on Philosophy News.

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APA Member Interview: Ryan S. Bingham

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2025/06/27

Ryan S. Bingham is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he studies the work of Jacques Derrida at the intersections of the philosophy of religion and the study of religion, culture, and politics. His dissertation is entitled “A Materialism without Substance: Jacques Derrida and Questions of Responsibility at the Closure […] The post APA Member Interview: Ryan S. Bingham first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post APA Member Interview: Ryan S. Bingham appeared

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Incommensurable Values

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2025/06/26

[Revised entry by Henrik Andersson and Nien-hê Hsieh on June 26, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Things are sometimes said to be incommensurable. The meaning of the term can take many different interpretations. Central to all interpretations, however, is the difficulty of making comparisons, often raising profound questions about practical reason and rational choice. […] The post Incommensurable Values appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Work Shirts to the Opera

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2025/06/26

The only good academic is as good as the trash collector. The post Work Shirts to the Opera first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Work Shirts to the Opera appeared first on Philosophy News.

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