📘 📘 Atlas 哲学与思想日报 - 2026年11月10日

“We are frankly stunned to find a focus… on intemperate social media posts, papers that didn’t after all get retracted, and books being published by […]

David Lyons, emeritus professor of philosophy and law at Boston University, has died. The following memorial notice is by Aaron Garret (Boston University). David Lyons […]

New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more… . […]

Mark Oppenheimer, a lawyer in South Africa whom readers may know as the co-host of the popular Brain in a Vat philosophy podcast, is facing […]

Five years ago, Andrew Shen created a browser extension, SEP+, that improved the experience of using the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy in various ways. He […]

Earlier this year, Anthropic announced an update to its usage policy prohibiting “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its AI models. The rule, which takes effect on November 12, forms part of a broader effort to mitigate possible risks to model welfare. Since August 2025, Anthropic has also allowed some versions of Claude […]

Imagine that a government has £1 billion to spend. They can either spend it on improving schools and hospitals now, or, instead, they can invest the money in reducing a small risk of a terrible catastrophe occurring centuries from now. If the future contains many more people than the present, then—we might imagine—the second option […]

The Issues in Philosophy Series is running a two-part mini-series entitled “The Stubborn Psychologization of Pain.” This mini-series is authored by Tiina Rosenqvist, who has previously written for the blog. This post is the second and final installment. My own pain started out mild and then gradually got worse. A few years in, I started […]

In his lecture Was heißt Denken? (What Is Called Thinking?), delivered as part of his 1951-52 university lecture courses in Freiburg, Martin Heidegger uttered the (in)famous sentence, “Science does not think” (“Die Wissenschaft denkt nicht”). Heidegger himself, to be sure, acknowledges that this might strike as a “shocking statement” (“anstößiger Satz”), but immediately goes on, […]

For the last year, my workday routine has looked largely the same: I arrive at my desk, clumsily unload my comically precarious armful of daily provisions, put my food in the office refrigerator, put my backpack away, and set my coffee and oversized Hydro Flask to the left of my dual monitors. I log in […]

Sociologen Richard Sennett reflekterar i denna essä, utifrån de personliga erfarenheter hans föräldrar gjorde under McCarthyeran, över hur olika former av förföljelse och totalitärt styre lämnar olika arv efter sig. Som enskild människa måste man leva igenom även mycket dåliga tider. Strategierna kan vara många. Kanske måste, menar Sennett, socialismen sätta det sociala tillbaka på agendan, för att förbereda sig för en tid efter Trump.

'An all-consuming adversarial relationship to power is not enough to make a full life.’ As former communists, Richard Sennett’s mother, father and uncle were harassed during McCarthyism. The sociologist recalls the different ways they resisted this 'Neronist' form of persecution.

Nejznámější stereotyp o Sudetech říká, že po vyhnání Němců nově příchozí obyvatelstvo k těmto regionům nic nepoutalo, což je hlavní důvod jejich kolapsu. Zapomíná se přitom nejen na roli, kterou v tom sehrál bývalý režim, ale i na propad, jenž přišel v devadesátých letech. Jaký sociální obsah se skrývá za zeměpisným pojmem Sudety?

The decline of the region historically known as Sudetenland is often blamed on the post-war settlers, as if things would have been different had the German population remained. This nostalgic account ignores the role of communist misgovernment and the economic collapse after 1990.

Chronicling 15 years of social and political change in Eastern Europe; value-based fault lines; an existential moment for Moldova’s statehood; preparing for reconciliation in Belarus.