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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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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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2025/05/31

[Revised entry by Paul Redding on May 31, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Along with J.G. Fichte and, at least in his early work, F.W.J. von Schelling, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831) belongs to the period of German idealism in the decades following Kant. The most systematic of the idealists, Hegel attempted, […]The post Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Deliver Us from Evil – Part 2

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2025/05/31

This is the second and final part of a two-part article. Find the first part here. It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures. (Simone Weil)1 Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into

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The Cost of Rotten Speech: Knowledge, Reason & Democracy

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2025/05/30

The previous post in this series looked at how Elon Musk’s attempt to transform X (formerly Twitter) into a digital town square—grounded in absolute free speech—ironically undermined the very epistemic foundations his vision depended on. The nature of today’s digital platforms, combined with Musk’s abandonment of content moderation, doesn’t allow for the epistemic friction necessary to engage critical thinking. […] The post The Cost of Rotten Speech: Knowledge, Reason & Democracy first appeared

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Distributive Justice and Empirical Moral Psychology

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2025/05/30

[Revised entry by Christian B. Miller on May 30, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Whether and to what extent people are motivated by considerations of justice is a central topic in a number of fields including economics, psychology, and business. The implications of this topic extend broadly, from the psychology of negotiations, to the […] The post Distributive Justice and Empirical Moral Psychology appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Francisco Sanches

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2025/05/30

[Revised entry by Rolando Pérez on May 30, 2025. Changes to: Bibliography] Francisco Sanches (1551 – 1623) was an important figure in the history of philosophical scepticism, and most specifically in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Sanches gained notoriety through his controversial text, That Nothing is Known. His skeptical ideas concerning what could […] The post Francisco Sanches appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction, Second...

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2025/05/29

2025.05.12 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Dale Jamieson, Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 290pp., $39.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781108994392. Reviewed by Nicolas Delon, College of Charleston Every version of Environmental Ethics I teach has featured Dale Jamieson’s Ethics and the Environment (first edition, 2008), so […] The post Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction, Second Edition appeared first on

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A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite To Fight

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2025/05/29

2025.05.11 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Derrick Darby, A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite To Fight, Oxford University Press, 2022, 320pp., $39.99 (hbk), ISBN 9780197622124. Reviewed by Vanessa Wills, The George Washington University Reviewed by Vanessa Wills, The George Washington University Derrick Darby’s urgent and important book, A Realistic […] The post A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite To Fight appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Adam Smith’s Moral and Political Philosophy

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2025/05/29

[Revised entry by Samuel Fleischacker on May 29, 2025. Changes to: Bibliography] Adam Smith developed a comprehensive and unusual version of moral sentimentalism in his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759, TMS). He did not expressly lay out a political philosophy in similar detail, but a distinctive set of views on politics can be extrapolated from […] The post Adam Smith’s Moral and Political Philosophy appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Intensional Transitive Verbs

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2025/05/29

[Revised entry by Graeme Forbes on May 29, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] A verb is transitive only if it can occur with a direct object, and in such occurrences it is said to occur transitively. Thus ‘ate’ and ‘left’ occur transitively in ‘I ate the meat and left the vegetables’, but not […] The post Intensional Transitive Verbs appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Mary Midgley and The Necessity of Philosophy

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2025/05/29

Mary Midgley has become an increasingly prominent name in recent years. This could be attributed to her passing in 2018, which, along with the rise in Midgley and “Wartime Quartet” scholarship, has drawn attention to her significant philosophical output and contributions. Yet, for all the well-deserved attention, Midgley has long held a reputation for nuanced […] The post Mary Midgley and The Necessity of Philosophy first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Mary Midgley and The Necessity of

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