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Singularities and Black Holes

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2025/07/13

[Revised entry by Erik Curiel, Manus Visser, and Juliusz Doboszewski on July 13, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, holes-in-spacetime.html, non-standard-singularities.html, notes.html] A spacetime singularity is a breakdown in spacetime, either in its geometry or in some other basic physical structure. It is a topic of ongoing physical and philosophical research to clarify both the […]The post Singularities and Black Holes appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Seventeenth-Century Theories of Consciousness

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2025/07/12

[Revised entry by Larry M. Jorgensen on July 12, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] In the seventeenth century, “consciousness” began to take on a uniquely modern sense. This transition was sparked by new theories of mind and ideas, and it connected with other important issues of debate during the seventeenth century, including debates over […] The post Seventeenth-Century Theories of Consciousness appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Should You Choose to Live Forever?

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2025/07/11

2025.07.4 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Stephen Cave and John Martin Fischer, Should You Choose to Live Forever? Routledge, 2024, 224pp., $38.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780367615406. Reviewed by Travis Timmerman, Seton Hall University Should You Choose to Live Forever? is one of the newest entries in Routledge’s excellent “Little Debates about […] The post Should You Choose to Live Forever? appeared first on Philosophy News.

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APA Member Interview: Keegan Brady

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2025/07/11

Keegan Brady is a student of mathematics and philosophy at UMass Lowell. He has interned under the mentorship of Dr. Alison McConwell, as well as at the American Philosophical Association. Brady has co-authored a poster presented at the 2024 New Orleans Philosophy of Science conference and is attending the University of Pittsburgh’s Philosophy of Science […] The post APA Member Interview: Keegan Brady first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post APA Member Interview: Keegan Brady appeared first on

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Intelligence is Always Artificial

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2025/07/10

For Hegel, intelligence is always artificial. Indeed, there is nothing “natural” about understanding, consciousness, nor intelligence itself. We say certain behaviors come naturally to us. Most of us breathe when we are born. Our first breaths are often a cry. And while we might call these acts “natural,” surely we would not call them “intelligent.” Can intelligence […] The post Intelligence is Always Artificial first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Intelligence is Always Artificial appeared

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The Single-Minded Animal: Shared Intentionality,...

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2025/07/10

2025.07.3 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Preston Stovall, The Single-Minded Animal: Shared Intentionality, Normativity, and the Foundations of Discursive Cognition, Routledge, 2023, 398pp., $54.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780367724061. Reviewed by Tuomo Tiisala, University of Vienna What makes a human being a rational animal? How did we become rational as a species? […] The post The Single-Minded Animal: Shared Intentionality, Normativity, and the Foundations of Discursive

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Blooming in the Ruins: How Mexican Philosophy Can...

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2025/07/10

2025.07.2 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Carlos Alberto Sánchez, Blooming in the Ruins: How Mexican Philosophy Can Guide Us toward the Good Life, Oxford University Press, 2024, 328pp., $19.99 (hbk), ISBN 9780197691007. Reviewed by José Jorge Mendoza, University of Washington There are few introductions to Latin American philosophy and even fewer […] The post Blooming in the Ruins: How Mexican Philosophy Can Guide Us toward the Good Life appeared first on Philosophy

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Two 3-yr PhD Positions FWF-Project “The Ethics of...

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2025/07/10

Job List: Europe Name of institution: University of Vienna Town: Vienna Country: Austria Job Description: Job: Two 3-yr PhD Positions FWF-Project “The Ethics of Blaming and Praising Group Agents” University of Vienna The post Two 3-yr PhD Positions FWF-Project “The Ethics of Blaming and Praising Group Agents” University of Vienna appeared first on Philosophy News.

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The Weight and Limits of Academic Titles

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2025/07/10

On April 6, 1980, Le Monde published an interview with a French intellectual, whose name was not disclosed at the time. It was later revealed to be Michel Foucault. Foucault chose anonymity not to launch a critique but because he believed that knowing an author’s identity held little value. As he would later suggest in […] The post The Weight and Limits of Academic Titles first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post The Weight and Limits of Academic Titles appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Marsilius of Inghen

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2025/07/09

[Revised entry by Maarten Hoenen on July 9, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Marsilius of Inghen, master at the Universities of Paris (1362 – 1378) and Heidelberg (1386 – 1396), wrote a number of treatises on logic, natural philosophy and theology popular at many late medieval and early modern universities. He adopted the […] The post Marsilius of Inghen appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Project X

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2025/07/05

My father spent at least 40 years of his life working to develop an internally-driven perpetual motion machine. And I was a true believer, at least up until college.My father held no stock in supposed refutations by mathematicians and physicists of the possibility of such a perpetual motion machine. He disagreed that such a machine would violate one or more of the laws of motion and thermodynamics, and firmly held that in the early 1700s Johann Bessler (better known under the pseudonym “Orffyreus”)

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The Free Rider Problem

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2025/07/05

[New Entry by Garrett Cullity on July 4, 2025.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Garrett Cullity replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.] In many contexts, the efficient production of a good by a group is… The post The Free Rider Problem appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Feminist Philosophy of Language

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2025/07/04

[Revised entry by Jennifer Saul, Esa Diaz-Leon, and Samia Hesni on July 4, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Feminist philosophy of language has come a long way in a very short time period. Initially, most work in the area was critical, calling for changes either to language itself or to philosophy of language. More […] The post Feminist Philosophy of Language appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Nyāya Sūtra—On Philosophical Method: Sanskrit Text,...

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2025/07/04

2025.07.1 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Victor A. van Bijlert, Nyāya Sūtra—On Philosophical Method: Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary, Routledge, 2024, 251pp., $180.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781032758381. Reviewed by Stephen H. Phillips, Professor Emeritus, The University of Texas at Austin Within ancient and classical Indian literature, sūtra texts are comprised of […] The post Nyāya Sūtra—On Philosophical Method: Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary appeared

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APA Announces the Milton K. Munitz Prize and Lenore...

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2025/07/03

The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Milton K. Munitz Prize in Metaphysics, Ontology, and Cosmology and the Lenore Bloom Munitz Prize in Value Theory, Social Philosophy, and Civic Virtue. The Munitz Prizes are established with the APA by the Milton K. Munitz Society in honor of Milton K. […] The post APA Announces the Milton K. Munitz Prize and Lenore Bloom Munitz Prize first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post APA Announces the Milton K

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Isaac Albalag

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2025/07/02

[Revised entry by Bakinaz Abdalla on July 2, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] Isaac Albalag stands out as one of the most rigorous representatives of the Jewish Averroism school which flourished in Western Europe in the thirteenth century and continued until the Renaissance. This school contained notable figures such as Ibn Kaspi, Shem […] The post Isaac Albalag appeared first on Philosophy News.

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Leadership, Elevators, and Missing Car Payments: A...

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2025/07/02

On the wall of the bookshelf in my office is a poem, “If” the Most Powerful Word in the English Language. The poem reads as a stream of aphorisms all beginning with ‘If.’ It is unpublished, written by a middle-aged man who successfully made it through a 2-week substance abuse early recovery program. I was […] The post Leadership, Elevators, and Missing Car Payments: A Reflection on Aphorisms in Recovery first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post Leadership, Elevators, and Missing Car Payments: A

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The Precautionary Approach to AI: Less Human, More...

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2025/07/01

Have you ever caught yourself thanking Siri or saying please to ChatGPT? If so, you’re not alone. Evolutionary forces, social norms, and design features all make us naturally inclined to treat these technologies like people. Since bots that look, sound, and act like us are already pervasive, where is the technology heading? The most likely […] The post The Precautionary Approach to AI: Less Human, More Honest first appeared on Blog of the APA. The post The Precautionary Approach to AI: Less Human,

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Some Thoughts on the Indian Freedom Struggle in Light...

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2025/07/01

Kama Maclean and Benjamin Zachariah write that the humiliation of colonial rule necessitates violence, citing Fanon’s assertion that violence “frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect” (80). Maclean and Zachariah propose that M. K. Gandhi’s path of nonviolent civil disobedience and […] The post Some Thoughts on the Indian Freedom Struggle in Light of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and M. K. Gandhi’s

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Personal Identity and Ethics

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2025/06/30

[New Entry by Annette Dufner and David Shoemaker on June 30, 2025.] We think of ourselves as temporally extended beings. We do not just exist in the moment. Most of us have been around for a few years and will, hopefully, continue to exist in the future. We also believe that we are individuals whose […] The post Personal Identity and Ethics appeared first on Philosophy News.

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