📘 📘 Atlas 哲学与思想日报 - 2026年09月09日

Which areas of specialization have been correlated with higher placement into “permanent” (typically tenure-track or tenured) positions over the past few years? “The broad finding is that those in Value Theory and History & Traditions (n=1125) have a higher proportion in permanent academic placement… than those in LEMM or Science, Logic, & Math (n=864),” according to Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced), who analyzed data gathered by Academic Philosophy Dat...

This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. (If we missed something, please let us know.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy New: ∅ Revised: Mysticism by Richard Jones and Jerome Gellman. Chauncey Wright by Jean De Groot. Indexicals by David Braun and Alexandru Radulescu. Locke on Real Essence by Jan-Erik Jones. Isaac Israeli by Leonard Le...

“But is this actually philosophy?” Ethan Landes (Eindhoven University of Technology) is tired of experimental philosophers being asked The Question. And he’s tired of experimental philosophers “appeasing” those who ask it by “dressing up experimental scholarship up as relevant to armchair analytic philosophy.” He writes: Every experimental philosopher has tons of practice doing this. It is how we answer The Question in Q&As. It is how we write gra...

New links in the Heap… “There are just so many other things you could be doing” — Daniel Groll wrote something for his students about the role of phones in their lives. (Perhaps it would work better as a TikTok?) “I can now keep walking and say things like ‘Find the relevant sections of the papers I mentioned, add them to the notes for Chapter 3, and update the references accordingly’” — Gus Skorburg shares how he uses AI in his work Improve your philosophy teaching wi...

“Philosophical work would be better with adversaries collaborating to keep each other honest.” Why is that? What would it look like? In the following guest post, members of the Mind and Morality Lab at Boston University—Victor Kumar (Boston University), Derek Anderson (Boston University), Emilia Lacy (Boston University), Josh May (University of Alabama, Birmingham), Rachel McKinney (Suffolk University), Tino Themelis (Boston University), and Velana Valdez (Boston University)...

Below is the audio recording of Lisa Tessman’s presidential address, “Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matter,” given at the 2024 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required).  The audio of the lecture is available here: “Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters […]

Is love a desire for union with another person? A special kind of care for their wellbeing? A form of awe and attention in front of another person’s moral presence? A shared project of agency and affect? Or, maybe, love is not a “thing” that allows for a (single) definition or theory. Countless philosophical discussions […]

I am an amateur pianist, and I love performing classical music. Reflecting on my willingness to follow the score written by the composers, I found it bizarre: I follow the score to such an extreme extent that I am willing to take the risk of ruining a public performance. Sometimes, the instructions on the score […]

The APA Blog is publishing excerpts from Cliff Sosis’s long-form interviews with philosophers, which appear at his blog, What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? The excerpts below are from an interview originally published on August 20, 2026 and are reprinted with permission from Cliff Sosis. In this interview, Briana Toole, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy […]

Slopaganda  On February 28, 2026, the U.S. and Israel initiated an armed conflict against Iran. Widely discussed as the first AI-fueled war, the war has engendered many debates on the moral complexity of modern warfare and AI’s role. One of the most interesting progressions is the use of AI to generate propaganda called slopaganda. Throughout […]

Iranian cinema’s struggle for freedom of expression; policing women’s right to choose in Russia; Israel’s murderous method of censorship; the suffocation of political theatre in the UK.

Why working-class Valencians are being priced out of their own language; whether or not to write in dialect; Catalonia’s golden age; comparing genocides.

From resistance heroization and victim denigration to justification for military action, perceptions of what the Holocaust means in Israel have shifted over the decades. Historian Avinoam Patt talks to Eurozine about his research on Holocaust memorialization and Israeli national identity, discussing political and cultural turning points.

Cryonics promises to preserve patients’ brains, if not entire bodies, until they can be given a ‘second life’. But now there is another route to immortality: digital brain emulation. A transhumanist fantasy?

In inflicting overwhelming force on Gaza’s civilian population with the intention of expelling it abroad, Israel’s devastating response to the Hamas massacre on 7 October 2023 was consonant with, and rooted in, decades of state practice and ideology.