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Economics of enshittification. A great product at a...

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2025/07/28

Economics of enshittification. A great product at a low price tends to become a worse product at a high price. Why?The post Economics of enshittification. A great product at a low price tends to become a worse product at a high price. Why? appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Who was Leopold Stokowski? The most elusive and...

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2025/07/28

Who was Leopold Stokowski? The most elusive and controversial conductor in America The post Who was Leopold Stokowski? The most elusive and controversial conductor in America appeared first on Philosophy News.

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In poetry, the liminal is a tired, vague, and often...

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2025/07/28

In poetry, the liminal is a tired, vague, and often meaningless signifier. Not for Laura Gilpin The post In poetry, the liminal is a tired, vague, and often meaningless signifier. Not for Laura Gilpin appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Moral Circle

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2025/07/25

Jeff Sebo is associate professor of environmental studies; affiliated professor of bioethics, medical ethics, philosophy, and law; director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection; and director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy at New York University. In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Jeff talks about what it means to matter morally, balancing […] The post Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Moral Circle first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Recently

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Giambattista della Porta

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2025/07/25

[Revised entry by Sergius Kodera on July 25, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] To most modern readers, it would stretch definitions to include someone like Giovan Battista Della Porta (1535 – 1615) in an encyclopedia of philosophy. Yet philosophy in Porta’s time encompassed a far wider range of topics than it does today, including […] The post Giambattista della Porta appeared first on Philosophy News.

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As facial-recognition technology advances via AI,...

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2025/07/25

As facial-recognition technology advances via AI, Michael Clune asks: How much should we value our privacy? The post As facial-recognition technology advances via AI, Michael Clune asks: How much should we value our privacy? appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Early photography, the domain of “the clever, the...

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2025/07/25

Early photography, the domain of “the clever, the wealthy, and the obsessed,” could be a death-defying pursuit The post Early photography, the domain of “the clever, the wealthy, and the obsessed,” could be a death-defying pursuit appeared first on Philosophy News.

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It’s tempting to blame social media for our epistemic...

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2025/07/25

It’s tempting to blame social media for our epistemic crisis. The truth is more complicated, and more uncomfortable The post It’s tempting to blame social media for our epistemic crisis. The truth is more complicated, and more uncomfortable appeared first on Philosophy News.

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The uses of anthropomorphism. We often misinterpret...

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2025/07/25

The uses of anthropomorphism. We often misinterpret animal emotion, but denying their emotions is also a category error The post The uses of anthropomorphism. We often misinterpret animal emotion, but denying their emotions is also a category error appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Geoff Dyer has made a literary career out of humorous...

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2025/07/25

Geoff Dyer has made a literary career out of humorous high jinks and stylistic experimentation. His latest work departs from all that The post Geoff Dyer has made a literary career out of humorous high jinks and stylistic experimentation. His latest work departs from all that appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Can We Save Morality’s Reputation?

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2025/07/19

I have a friend who is queer, vegetarian and one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Some would describe her as quite the good moral example too… Yet she wouldn’t like that at all, because she associates ethics with religious prejudice. Though partly inspired by Nietzsche’s work, she often points to something even more important: how ‘morality’ was used by empires of the past to erase native cultures.Another friend was sharing his thoughts on a piece of mine about animal ethics. But out of a

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Conservatism

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2025/07/18

[Revised entry by Andy Hamilton on July 18, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Conservatism and its modernising, anti-traditionalist rivals, liberalism and socialism, are the most influential political philosophies and ideologies of the post-Enlightenment era. Conservatives criticise their rivals for making a utopian exaggeration of the power of theoretical reason, and of human perfectibility. Conservative […] The post Conservatism appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Alcmaeon

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2025/07/18

[Revised entry by Carl Huffman on July 18, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Alcmaeon of Croton was an early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist. His exact date, his relationship to other early Greek philosopher-scientists, and whether he was primarily a medical writer/physician or a Presocratic cosmologist, are all matters of controversy. He is likely […] The post Alcmaeon appeared first on Philosophy News.

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APA Member Interview, Kjell Fostervold

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2025/07/18

Kjell Fostervold is a PhD candidate at Indiana University, Bloomington. His work focuses on meaning in life, especially on the structure of meaningful lives, the notions of purpose & belonging, and philosophical methodology. Personal Website: https://www.kjellfostervold.com What topic do you think is underexplored in philosophy? So, so many things, but connected to my own work […] The post APA Member Interview, Kjell Fostervold first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post APA Member Interview,

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Can Legal Obligations Arise From Mere Social Facts?

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2025/07/17

What makes norms like paying taxes, wearing a seat-belt, or being forbidden from committing murder legally valid, obligatory, or binding? On one hand, natural lawyers claim that it is justice, fairness, or some other moral standard that make them so. On the other, legal positivists claim that it is certain social facts, such as the […] The post Can Legal Obligations Arise From Mere Social Facts? first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Can Legal Obligations Arise From Mere Social Facts? appeared

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Challenges to Metaphysical Realism

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2025/07/16

[Revised entry by Drew Khlentzos on July 16, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] According to metaphysical realism, the world is as it is independent of how humans or other inquiring agents take it to be. The objects the world contains, together with their properties and the relations they enter into, fix the world’s […] The post Challenges to Metaphysical Realism appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Engineers, Expertise, and Organizations: The...

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2025/07/16

A central component of my Engineering Ethics course, which you can read more about in the Blog of the APA’s Syllabus Showcase series, is the use of case studies to illustrate certain concepts. I supplement some of the case studies from the book with videos that add information and give a personal account of the […] The post Engineers, Expertise, and Organizations: The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Engineers, Expertise, and Organizations: The Challenger

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The Phenomenology of the Munich and Göttingen Circles

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2025/07/16

[Revised entry by Alessandro Salice on July 16, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] In the first decades of the twentieth century, members of the so-called “Munich and Gottingen circles” of phenomenology made important contributions to various areas of philosophical research, including philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of action, epistemology, social philosophy, axiology, […] The post The Phenomenology of the Munich and Göttingen Circles appeared first

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Epictetus

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2025/07/16

[Revised entry by Margaret Graver on July 16, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] A Greek philosopher of 1st and early 2nd centuries C.E., and an exponent of Stoic ethics notable for the consistency and power of his ethical thought and for effective methods of teaching. Epictetus’s chief concerns are with integrity, self-management, and personal […] The post Epictetus appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science

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2025/07/15

2025.07.6 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Joshua May, Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science, Oxford University Press, 2023, 344pp., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780197648094. Reviewed by Andrea Lavazza, Pegaso University Reviewed by Andrea Lavazza, Pegaso University Neuroethics is a young discipline with still-blurred boundaries, situated at the crossroads […] The post Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science appeared first on Philosophy News.

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