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Dehumanization
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William Godwin
 [Revised entry by Mark Philp on March 24, 2025. Changes to: Bibliography] William Godwin (1756 - 1836) was the founder of philosophical anarchism. In his An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) he argued that government is a corrupting force in society, perpetuating dependence and ignorance, but that it will be rendered increasingly unnecessary and powerless […]
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Teleology
 2025.03.13 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Matthew Tugby Teleology, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 75pp., $22.00 (pbk), ISBN 9781009257398. Reviewed by Alexander Bird, University of Cambridge In this short, but wide ranging and readable book, Matthew Tugby addresses teleology and the related notions of function and goal-directedness. He commences by contrasting […]
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Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human: Piety and Politics in the “Nicomachean Ethics”
 2025.03.14 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Mary P. Nichols, Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human: Piety and Politics in the “Nicomachean Ethics”, University of Notre Dame Press, 2023, 356pp., $65.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780268205454. Reviewed by Mor Segev, University of South Florida This book explores piety and its relation to politics in […]
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Aesthetics in Critical Theory
 [New Entry by Owen Hulatt on March 25, 2025.] Critical theory arose as a response to perceived inadequacies in Marxist theory, and perceived changes in modern capitalism. Critical theorists emphasized the ability of capitalism to shape the thought and experience of individuals: it distorts how modern society and its products appear to us, and how […]
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Considering Black Intelligibility and Generosity Through Mills and Wilderson
 In his 2017 conversations with Tiffany Lethabo King, published in the collection Otherwise Worlds as “Staying Ready for Black Study,” Frank Wilderson sets a standard for dialogue between his Afropessimist position and others looking to engage with it, implying a potential for a communication he believes has yet to occur: “When it comes down to […]
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Prioritarianism as a Theory of Value
 [New Entry by Matthew Adler and Nils Holtug on March 24, 2025.] Prioritarianism is generally understood as a kind of moral axiology. An axiology provides an account of what makes items, in this case outcomes, good or bad, better or worse. A moral axiology focuses on moral value: on what makes outcomes morally good or […]
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2019 Eastern Division Presidential Address: The Philosophy of Privacy and Digital Life
Below is the audio recording of Anita L. Allen’s presidential address, “The Philosophy of Privacy and Digital Life,” given at the 2019 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR. The audio of the lecture is available here: “The Philosophy of Privacy […]
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George Santos and the Cunning of Reason
When reproached for explicitly identifying as Jewish in front of the Republican Jewish Coalition, at a campaign event in Florida, and on his campaign website, former U.S. congressman and pathological liar George Santos explained: “I said I was Jew-ish.” When I heard about this episode in 2022, I couldn’t get it out of my head, […]
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The Birth of a Journal
The idea that the APA should have a journal had been around for some time, but it came to fruition in 2012, when the Board of Officers created a committee charged with advancing a plan for a new journal. The committee—Julia Annas, Robert Audi (chair), David Rasmussen, T. M. Scanlon, Sally Scholz, Ernest Sosa, and […]
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