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A Supportive Partner Is Not What You Need

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2025/06/21

Support can come in many forms. Whatever shape it comes in, it is one of the desired characteristics in selecting a good partner. However, an all-supportive partner should not be desired because it can potentially keep the subject from growing as a person. In this paper, I will show why this is the case. In particular, I will argue that if the partner supports the partner when she should not, the outcome would be nothing more than making an objectively bad decision. Therefore, I propose a four-step

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APA Member Interview, Vikas Beniwal

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2025/06/20

Vikas Beniwal is currently pursuing an M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Mississippi. Prior to this, he earned an M.A. in Philosophy and B.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai. His research interests include moral and political philosophy, and he cares about animal welfare and environmental issues. PhilPeople: vikas-beniwal What excites you […]The post APA Member Interview, Vikas Beniwal first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post APA Member Interview, Vikas Beniwal

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Consciousness, the brain, and our chimeric selves

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2025/06/20

This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA’s partnership with the Institute. The genetic code that goes on to create our brains, our selves, and our consciousness, is not only hereditary. Anna M. Hennessey argues that microchimerism, where non-hereditary DNA is introduced […] The post Consciousness, the brain, and our chimeric selves first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Consciousness, the brain, and

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Nationalism

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2025/06/19

[New Entry by David Miller on June 19, 2025.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by David Miller replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.]… The post Nationalism appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Legal but Not Protected: The Precarious Space of H-1B...

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2025/06/19

Earlier this year, a heated debate over the H-1B visa program erupted among key supporters of President Trump and soon sparked reactions across the political spectrum. The H-1B visa is a temporary, employer-sponsored work authorization granted to foreign nationals in “specialty occupations,” typically requiring a bachelor’s degree or higher. It imposes an annual cap of […] The post Legal but Not Protected: The Precarious Space of H-1B Workers first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Legal but Not

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Transparency and Reflection: A Study of...

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2025/06/19

2025.06.11 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Matthew Boyle, Transparency and Reflection: A Study of Self-Knowledge and the Nature of Mind, Oxford University Press, 2024, 304pp., $90.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199926299. Reviewed by K. T. Falvey, University of California, Santa Barbara The transparency referred to in the title of Matthew Boyle’s book […] The post Transparency and Reflection: A Study of Self-Knowledge and the Nature of Mind appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Ignorance and Moral Responsibility

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2025/06/19

2025.06.10 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Michael J. Zimmerman, Ignorance and Moral Responsibility, Oxford University Press, 2022, 392pp., $115.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192859570. Reviewed by Philip Robichaud, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Over the past 25 years, philosophers have begun to address the long-standing neglect of the epistemic condition of moral responsibility. Several […] The post Ignorance and Moral Responsibility appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Abduction

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2025/06/18

[Revised entry by Igor Douven on June 18, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] In the philosophical literature, the term “abduction” is used in two related but different senses. In both senses, the term refers to some form of explanatory reasoning. However, in the historically first sense, it refers to the place of explanatory reasoning […] The post Abduction appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Iran Is the Enemy the West Created

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2025/06/18

War with the West needs a theocracy This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA’s partnership with the Institute. The Middle East is ablaze with conflict. From Israel and Palestine, to Yemen and the recent collapse of the Syrian government, when there […] The post Iran Is the Enemy the West Created first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Iran Is the Enemy the West Created appeared first on Philosophy

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Conservation Biology

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2025/06/18

[Revised entry by Jay Odenbaugh on June 18, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] One way of conceptualizing the structure of a science is that at any time it contains ontologies, theories, and values (Kuhn 1962; Lakatos 1976; Laudan 1978, 1986). In this entry, we explore questions regarding the ontology, theories, and values central to […] The post Conservation Biology appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Sex Metamorphosis

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2025/06/14

I’d like to propose a thought experiment. Suppose the sciences of biology and medicine advanced to the stage where it became possible to change the sex of an animal (including, of course, human animals) completely. Let me make a few more stipulations. The change would be complete at every level. A woman transitioning to become a man would grow a penis and testicles; a man transitioning to become a woman would grow a vagina, clitoris, ovaries and breasts. These organs would be fully functional. The

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Moral Non-Naturalism

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2025/06/14

[Revised entry by Michael Ridge on June 14, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] There may be as much philosophical controversy about how to distinguish naturalism from non-naturalism as there is about which view is correct. In spite of this widespread disagreement about the content of naturalism and non-naturalism there is considerable agreement about the […]The post Moral Non-Naturalism appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Defeasible Reasoning

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2025/06/13

[Revised entry by Robert Koons on June 13, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, suppl7.html] Reasoning is defeasible when the corresponding argument is rationally compelling but not deductively valid. The truth of the premises of a good defeasible argument provide support for the conclusion, even though it is possible for the premises to be true […] The post Defeasible Reasoning appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Copycat Covers

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2025/06/13

Taylor Swift is a hugely successful businesswoman. She’s also an artist. A large part of her “Taylor’s Versions” project is (or was) the replication of her first six albums by painstakingly re-recording them. With very few exceptions, the new versions are, as Swift intended, aurally indistinguishable from the originals to all but the most dedicated […] The post Copycat Covers first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Copycat Covers appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy

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2025/06/13

2025.06.7 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Patrick Hassan (ed.), Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy, Routledge, 2022, 206pp., $54.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780367548704. Reviewed by Sean T. Murphy, Southern Utah University Consider just one of Nietzsche’s many veiled critical assessments of Schopenhauer’s—his great educator’s—ethics of compassion: Let us reflect seriously upon this question: why […] The post Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy appeared first on Philosophy News.

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APA Member Interview, Kristin Borgwald

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2025/06/13

Kristin Borgwald recently joined the faculty of St. Louis Community College, Meramec. She was previously a professor at Miami Dade College for 14 years, and while she misses the Miami sunshine, she is excited to return home to St. Louis where she grew up. Her interests include normative and applied ethics, epistemology, and interdisciplinary work. […] The post APA Member Interview, Kristin Borgwald first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post APA Member Interview, Kristin Borgwald appeared first on

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Kant and the Transformation of Natural History

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2025/06/13

2025.06.6 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Andrew Cooper, Kant and the Transformation of Natural History, Oxford University Press, 2023, 268pp., $80.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192869784. Reviewed by Steve Naragon, Manchester University Natural history (naturalis historia, Naturgeschichte, histoire naturelle) in the western world began in earnest with Aristotle as an exercise in […] The post Kant and the Transformation of Natural History appeared first on Philosophy News.

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What is the inner life of an atom?

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2025/06/12

Panpsychism is the belief that mind is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world. Panpsychism resolves a dilemma within realism: mind is itself elemental or else mind arises from non-mental elements. If you opt for the latter, you must explain how mind arises. If you opt for the former, you have to explain why there […] The post What is the inner life of an atom? first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post What is the inner life of an atom? appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Accounting for Institutional Limitations on Agency...

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2025/06/12

When I started investigating civil servants’ responses to the first Trump administration in 2017, I presumed civil servants were likely to face ethical dilemmas. During his campaign and early presidency, Trump criticized what he called the “deep state.” Historic mass protests in support of women, science, climate change, and asylum seekers proliferated in response to […] The post Accounting for Institutional Limitations on Agency under Trump: Civil Servants’ Loyalty Traps first appeared on Blog of

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Perfect Goodness

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2025/06/11

[Revised entry by Mark Murphy on June 11, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Reflection on perfect goodness is most commonly carried out as part of the project of philosophical theology. One prominent methodological strand of philosophical theology is perfect being theology, in which the nature of God is made more explicit by identifying God […] The post Perfect Goodness appeared first on Philosophy News.

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