Hiking and philosophy go together like a pair of comfortable trail shoes and moisture-wicking socks. Whether one prefers all-day wilderness treks like Henry David Thoreau, or thoughtful urban strolls à la Hannah Arendt, hiking can deepen one’s habits of attention, resilience, and care. Empirical studies now affirm what these figures intuited, that walking improves one’s […] The post Walking toward Wisdom: the Aporetics of Hiking first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
Traffic is trivial. Rules of the road are a basic necessity for a well-functioning society, but their design is largely a technical matter of logistics and optimization best left to technocratic policymaking, not a major topic for public moral or philosophical discussion. This, I think, roughly describes a tacit assumption behind the way many of…| Blog of the APA
The Tangier smoke cat catches a piece of meat in his front paws like a monkey…my little monkey beast. The white cat rubs his way towards me, tentative, hoping. William S. Borroughs, The Cat Inside (93). I used to live in Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and commute to work to Aachen (Germany), where I would stay…| Blog of the APA
When I was thirty, I told some coworkers about my plan to enter grad school to become a psychotherapist. We were technical writers for a large insurance company. “We used to have such dreams,” one of them sighed as the others nodded. “But you have to pay the bills and keep to what you know.”…| Blog of the APA
“The benign prerogative of pardoning” At the birth of the United States, Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 74 that “Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed.” Yet, long before Trump and Biden’s recent pardons, the pardoning power has been controversial…| Blog of the APA