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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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African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice

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2025/04/26

2025.04.10 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Pascah Mungwini, African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 213pp., $49.50 (hbk), ISBN 9781350196490. Reviewed by Munamato Chemhuru, Great Zimbabwe University / University of Johannesburg In African philosophy: Emancipation and practice, Pascah Mungwini offers some thoughtful insights into “the emancipative thrust in the […]The post African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice appeared first

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Classical Liberalism

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2025/04/26

The English political theorist Leonard Hobhouse, in his book Liberalism (1911), makes the following observation: “The modern State accordingly starts from the basis of an authoritarian order, and the protest against that order, a protest religious, political, economic, social, and ethical, is the historic beginning of Liberalism.” The point Hobhouse is making here is that nation states, and the monarchies and empires that preceded them, were not configured to provide their citizens with the

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Recently Published Book Spotlight: Trans Philosophy

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2025/04/25

Perry Zurn is an associate professor of philosophy at American University and a visiting associate professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Cornell University, and is the author of, among other books, How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University. Andrea J. Pitts is an associate professor of comparative […] The post Recently Published Book Spotlight: Trans Philosophy first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Recently Published Book Spotlight: Trans Philosophy

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Introducing APA mini series: Professional Rights and...

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2025/04/25

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. In order to […] The post Introducing APA mini series: Professional Rights and Academic Freedom first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Introducing APA mini series:

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APA Member Interview, Peter Alward

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2025/04/25

Peter Alward is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, he received his doctorate from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1998. He works primarily on issues in the Philosophy of Art and Literature. What are you working on right now? Right now, I’m working on […] The post APA Member Interview, Peter Alward first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post APA Member Interview, Peter Alward appeared first on Philosophy News.

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The Restoration of Language and the Possibility of Peace

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2025/04/24

If a bridge is burning, it may not be the moment to cross it. Stay on your island—preferably with friends, with people you care for and trust. And keep up the work that gives language life. Talk to your close ones. Read books, especially those that keep alive the memory of a past you cherish. And write: a diary, poems, stories, philosophy; write a letter to a friend. The post The Restoration of Language and the Possibility of Peace first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post The Restoration of

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Science and the Public

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2025/04/24

I was awarded my Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2007. Early in my Ph.D. program, I mentioned to a more senior graduate student that I was interested in how science relates to society. This student explained to me that, while some philosophers of science consider the social structure of science, it simply is outside the scope […] The post Science and the Public first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Science and the Public appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory

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2025/04/23

2025.04.9 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Bernard Harcourt, Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory, Columbia University Press, 2024, 312pp., $35.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780231209540. Reviewed by Albert W. Dzur, Bowling Green State University Cooperation is a big-hearted, finely researched work of criticism and reconstruction. Bernard Harcourt’s critical diagnosis of contemporary […] The post Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory appeared first

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Four Views on Free Will (2nd edition)

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2025/04/23

2025.04.8 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, Manuel Vargas, Four Views on Free Will (2nd edition), Wiley Blackwell, 2024, 260pp., $49.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781394161966. Reviewed by Daniel Speak, Loyola Marymount University The first edition of Four Views on Free Will appeared some seventeen years […] The post Four Views on Free Will (2nd edition) appeared first on Philosophy News.

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The Cultural Case for Saving Endangered Languages

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2025/04/23

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 idea of linguistic purism, or of resisting the excessive encroachment of foreign words in local languages, is often immediately disparaged as ignorant nationalism and stultifying to change. […] The post The Cultural Case for Saving Endangered Languages first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post The Cultural Case for Saving

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