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I’m a lifelong APA member with APA emeritus status. I see many reasons for the online conference, and perhaps the…
Thanks for this, Matt – a good point. In scheduling the Pacific APA, Alex Sager and I did what I…
“But, on the other hand, a virtual APA is in principle available to philosophers around the world” This is often…
Just a quick note to say that I thought these points were really well-taken. I registered for this year’s APA…
You’re right, that’s my mistake. Because the two incidents occurred a couple of months apart, I guess they often get…
This is incorrect. The incident involving Petrov occured on September 26, 1983. Petrov judged that the Oko early warning system’s…
This is an awful loss, I’m crushed by it. Dale was one of my most important mentors, philosophical interlocutors, and…
Nilanjan Das (Sanskrit philosophy, epistemology), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at Cornell University, where he will start in January 2026. This will put Cornell on the map as one of the small number of strong Anglophone departments where students can study Indian philosophy.
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