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Heaven and Hell in Christian Thought

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2025/05/10

[Revised entry by Thomas Talbott on May 10, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Behind the various Christian ideas about heaven and hell lies the more basic belief that our lives extend beyond the grave (see the entry on afterlife). For suppose that our lives do not extend beyond the grave. In addition to excluding […]The post Heaven and Hell in Christian Thought appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Omniscience

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2025/05/10

[Revised entry by Edward Wierenga on May 10, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Omniscience is the property of having complete or maximal knowledge. Along with omnipotence and perfect goodness, it is usually taken to be one of the central divine attributes. One source of the attribution of omniscience to God derives from the numerous […] The post Omniscience appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How...

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2025/05/10

2025.05.4 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Serene J. Khader, Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop, Penguin Random House, 2025, 248pp., $18.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780807021385. Reviewed by Ege Yumusak, University of Pennsylvania Serene Khader’s first book for a public audience packs philosophical rigor into […] The post Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Academic Freedom, Including Free Discussion for Students

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2025/05/09

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. Much of the discourse […] The post Academic Freedom, Including Free Discussion for Students first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Academic Freedom, Including Free

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APA Member Interview: Calvin Roosevelt Bell III

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2025/05/09

Calvin Bell III is a first-year Ph.D. student in Philosophy at Northwestern University as a Beinecke Scholar. Calvin’s intellectual interests are deeply rooted in political theory and social philosophy. His research seeks to explore the Black aesthetic tradition, Black intellectual and political thought, critical theory, legal theory, and ideas of resistance and utopianism. What excites […] The post APA Member Interview: Calvin Roosevelt Bell III first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post APA

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Bridging Kant and Hijab

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2025/05/09

To my father, my mother, and my brother — whose steadfast presence and principled lives have exemplified the very essence of moral strength. In a world often clouded by compromise, they have remained beacons of conviction and integrity. This article is, in no small measure, shaped by their unwavering encouragement and the ethical clarity they inspire in me every day. The rational will, towards dignity and ethical presence Morality comes from autonomous, rational will — we must choose moral

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The Philosophy of Space: The Value of Private Space...

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2025/05/08

I can’t believe the Neanderthals weren’t intrigued by the stars. I’d go further and assume this about everyone before and since the Neanderthals, too! Not just the powerful people we might find records about, but every single person who’s had the capacity to look up, see, and reflect. It’s hard to think of a simpler […] The post The Philosophy of Space: The Value of Private Space Activity first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post The Philosophy of Space: The Value of Private Space Activity

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Wikipedia in the Classroom

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2025/05/08

Academics and Wikipedia Among many academics, Wikipedia has a poor reputation. It’s not uncommon for college professors to discourage students from using the site or penalize them for quoting, citing, or referencing it in their written work. Usually left unstated, the assumption behind this attitude is that, since it does not go through the channels […] The post Wikipedia in the Classroom first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Wikipedia in the Classroom appeared first on Philosophy News.

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The Machiavellian Moment, Weak Covenantal Politics,...

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2025/05/08

The unpredictable character of contemporary history has become increasingly overwhelming, to the point that, when waking up in the morning, I experience the anxiety of the very real possibility of learning of some shocking event that might have happened while I was sleeping. I even considered stopping reading the news and going about my day […] The post The Machiavellian Moment, Weak Covenantal Politics, and Co-existential Anxiety in the American Republic first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post

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Grounding in Medieval Philosophy

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2025/05/08

2025.05.2 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Calvin G. Normore and Stephan Schmid (eds.), Grounding in Medieval Philosophy, Springer, 2024, 333pp., $159.99 (hbk), ISBN 9783031536656. Reviewed by Han Thomas Adriaenssen, University of Groningen In contemporary metaphysics, the term grounding has come to be used to pick out a certain kind of […] The post Grounding in Medieval Philosophy appeared first on Philosophy News.

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CfP: Conference on Plato’s Theory of Forms (Czech...

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2025/05/04

The Czech Plato Society has issued call for papers for the conference on Plato's Theory of Forms which will take place in October 2025 in Prague: https://www.platonskaspolecnost.cz/en/cfa-platos-theory-of-forms/The post CfP: Conference on Plato’s Theory of Forms (Czech Plato Society) appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons:...

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2025/05/03

2025.05.1 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Tuomo Tiisala, Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism, Routledge, 2024, 148pp., $152.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781032671376. Reviewed by Colin Koopman, University of Oregon Tuomo Tiisala’s Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism (PFSR) is a book […] The post Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism appeared first on Philosophy

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The Billiard Match

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2025/05/03

Some weeks ago, whilst sat quietly scrutinising some scientific correspondence in the midnight hour, I was interrupted by the most singular experience of my life. My scribbling must be excused, for the quill trembles in my hand as I hunch over that very same desk at Down House to write of how nefarious tricks were played on my senses that night. I still beg to comprehend these happenings, & so wish to put to paper what occurred, perhaps in a fool’s attempt to exorcise myself of the quakes. I

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Dai Zhen

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2025/05/02

[New Entry by Frank Y. C. Chong and Chris Fraser on May 2, 2025.] Dai Zhen 戴震 (1724 – 1777), also known by his courtesy name Dai Dongyuan 戴東原, was a highly accomplished scholar of the Qianlong-Jiaqing era of the Qing dynasty. His expertise encompassed a wide range of fields, including philology, phonology, mathematics, astronomy, […] The post Dai Zhen appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Infinity

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2025/05/02

[Revised entry by Kenny Easwaran, Alan Hájek, Paolo Mancosu, and Graham Oppy on May 2, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, al-ghazali.html, rational-ordering.png] Infinity is a big topic. Most people have some conception of things that have no bound, no boundary, no limit, no end. The rigorous study of infinity began in mathematics and philosophy, […] The post Infinity appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Ontological Dependence

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2025/05/01

[Revised entry by Tuomas E. Tahko and E. Jonathan Lowe on May 1, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Ontological dependence is a relation – or, more accurately, a family of relations – between entities or beings (onta in Greek, whence ontological). For there are various ways in which one being may be said to […] The post Ontological Dependence appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Reflections on Service, the Profession, and the...

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2025/05/01

“Service” is a tricky category in a grad student’s career planning. The general advice one gets usually says to keep it to a minimum and focus on your dissertation. This is not all bad advice, but it assumes that time is the only main factor affecting one’s research progress. Now, don’t get me wrong, graduate […] The post Reflections on Service, the Profession, and the Graduate Student Council first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Reflections on Service, the Profession, and the Graduate

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Musk’s Town Square Is Built on Sand

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2025/04/30

“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.” –Elon Musk When Elon Musk acquired Twitter, he positioned himself as a “free speech absolutist,” arguing that unrestricted expression is vital for democracy. Critical of the way Twitter’s management team […] The post Musk’s Town Square Is Built on Sand first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Musk’s Town Square Is Built on Sand appeared first

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Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic

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2025/04/30

[Revised entry by Andrea Cantini and Riccardo Bruni on April 30, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] By “paradox” one usually means a statement claiming something which goes beyond (or even against) ‘common opinion’ (what is usually believed or held). Paradoxes form a natural object of philosophical investigation ever since the origins of rational thought; […] The post Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Song-Ming Confucianism

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2025/04/30

[Revised entry by Justin Tiwald on April 30, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Confucian thought in China’s Song (960 – 1279 CE), Yuan (1279 – 1368 CE), and Ming (1368 – 1644 CE) dynasties is marked by concerted efforts to weave the ideas expressed in traditional Confucian texts into more coherent and theoretical worldviews, […] The post Song-Ming Confucianism appeared first on Philosophy News.

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