ethics

philosophybits: “One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by something better, which is as free and original as if they had not been.” — Henry David Thoreau, Journals The post philosophybits: “One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is… appeared firs…

This transdisciplinary paper formalizes a framework for problem-solving that replaces force, pressure, and coercion with root-cause structural innovation. Rather than treating non-violence as a moral ideal, it establishes non-coercion as a strict engineering constraint. The core method relies on a three-step cycle: identify the problem, solve the problem, and strictly avoid pressure or force. By …

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Generative AI can convert uncertainty into authoritative-seeming verdicts, displacing the justificatory work on which democratic epistemic agency depends. As a corrective, I propose a Brouwer-inspired assertibility constraint for responsible AI: in high-stakes domains, systems may assert or deny claims only if they can provide a publicly inspectable and contestable certificate of entitlement; oth…

_Social Science and Medicine_ 383 (October 2025). 2025Data-intensive healthcare has an equity problem. As data-intensive healthcare expands, historical injustices embedded in existing datasets limit its benefits for marginalized groups. While national and international Precision Medicine Research (PMR) initiatives - like All of Us (US) and the 100k Genome Project (UK) - aim to address these gaps …

“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…

Berry’s belief that humans have a responsibility to care for God’s creation traces back to the Book of Genesis. So does an opposing argument for environmental exploitation.

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 […] The post APA Member…