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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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Essays on Relativism: 2001–2021

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2025/05/24

2025.05.9 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Crispin Wright, Essays on Relativism: 2001–2021, Oxford University Press, 2023, 272pp., $80.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780192845993. Reviewed by Derek Ball, University of St Andrews This volume collects Crispin Wright’s work on relativism. It consists of 10 essays, all previously published (though one, ‘Alethic Pluralism, Deflationism, […]The post Essays on Relativism: 2001–2021 appeared first on Philosophy News.

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An Instrumentalist Theory of Political Legitimacy

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2025/05/24

2025.05.10 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Matthias Brinkmann, An Instrumentalist Theory of Political Legitimacy, Oxford University Press, 2024, 301pp., $105.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198901143. Reviewed by Fabian Wendt, Virginia Tech According to the mainstream view, political institutions are legitimate if and only if they have political authority, the “right to rule”. […] The post An Instrumentalist Theory of Political Legitimacy appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Four Realms of...

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2025/05/23

Joseph LeDoux has worked on emotion, memory, and consciousness in the brain since the mid-1970s. He is a Professor of Neural Science at New York University and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received numerous awards for his work and is the […] The post Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Four Realms of Existence first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Four Realms of Existence

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Free Speech and the Philosophy Classroom: The Wrong...

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2025/05/23

Welcome to the APA Mini-Series Blog organized by the APA Committee on Professional Rights and Academic Freedom, formerly, the Committee on the Professional Rights of Philosophers. We changed our name last year in order to highlight the centrality of Academic Freedom to our charge. Given recent events, it was not a moment too soon. It is a stressful time […] The post Free Speech and the Philosophy Classroom: The Wrong Question first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Free Speech and the Philosophy

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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2025/05/23

Magic in Ancient Greek Culture and Philosophy Deadline: January 15, 2026 Magic has often been deeply misunderstood in the philosophical tradition—it has been dismissed as primitive, derided as ‘mystical,’ and stigmatized as unphilosophical by influential figures such as Aristotle and later Christian thinkers. Traditions of magical practice in Ancient Greek culture and thought often reveal deep understanding of the natural, physical world and the forces at work within it. In this volume, the term

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APA Member Interview: Samuel Berrettini

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2025/05/23

Sam is a first-year PhD candidate in Boston University’s joint program in Philosophy and Classical Studies. He works primarily on Plato’s moral psychology, but is also interested in Presocratic philosophy, early modern moral psychology and meta-ethics, and contemporary meta-ontology. What is your favorite book of all time? (Or top 3). Why? To whom would you recommend […] The post APA Member Interview: Samuel Berrettini first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post APA Member Interview: Samuel

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Deliver Us from Evil

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2025/05/23

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 temptation; but deliver us from evil (Luke 11:2–4)2 The Lord’s Prayer is a very, very

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Try Neighborhood Philosophy in a Summer Block Party

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2025/05/22

Coming to know your neighbors is a patient, quiet, thoughtful work that can end up being domestic, fun, and comforting. We are the stitchers of a collective quilt, the squares of which are patches of our contiguous living. The post Try Neighborhood Philosophy in a Summer Block Party first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Try Neighborhood Philosophy in a Summer Block Party appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Radical Protest and Moral Justification

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2025/05/22

Imagine a protest. What do you see? Perhaps you imagined a demonstration: people marching, carrying hand-painted signs, singing songs, or chanting slogans. (“We are the 99%!,” “No justice, no peace!,” “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?”) These kinds of large-scale public gatherings represent, for many, the archetype of political protest: a […] The post Radical Protest and Moral Justification first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Radical Protest and Moral Justification appeared

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Turing Machines

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2025/05/21

[Revised entry by Liesbeth De Mol on May 21, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Turing machines, first described by Alan Turing in Turing 1936 – 7, are simple abstract computational devices intended to help investigate the extent and limitations of what can be computed. Turing’s ‘automatic machines’, as he termed them in 1936, were […] The post Turing Machines appeared first on Philosophy News.

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