Monthly Archives: December, 2016

Welcome to Our New Copy Editor

Happy Holidays, blog readers. I am pleased to offer a (belated) welcome to Michaela Maxwell as the new copy editor for the blog of the...

APA Member Interview: Eric Schwitzgebel

Eric Schwitzgebel is Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Riverside. He works on philosophy of mind, moral psychology, Chinese philosophy, skepticism, and science...

MARGY: Managing Academic Recommendations Gratis Yay

There has been a lot of discussion over the past few years of the unfortunate state of the application system for jobs in philosophy...

When Time Stands Still (Video)

Why do we remember the past, and not the future? —Stephen Hawking We structure our lives on the flow of time. Yet physicists since Einstein have...

Stoicism Now: Conversation with Massimo Pigliucci

Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He studies the nature of evolutionary theory, the relationship...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: The Moral Imperative to Assume the Worst—Philosophy’s Response to Donald Trump

With this post, the Blog of the APA is beginning a new ongoing series. Philosophy in the Contemporary World is aimed at exploring the...

What Are You Reading…On Vacations

At the vast majority of schools around the country, the semester is either ending or has ended. For me personally, all my teaching duties...

APA Member Interview: David Livingstone Smith

David Livingstone Smith is a professor of philosophy at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. His research focuses on dehumanization, ideology, race,...

The Teaching Workshop: Failure on the Value of Historical Views

One of the best things we can do to improve our pedagogy is share and think seriously about our teaching failures--our missteps, our lost...

PLATO Essay Contest

The PLATO High School Essay Contest gives students the opportunity to engage with timely and timeless philosophical issues and improve their academic writing.  It’s...

Has physics made philosophy obsolete? (Video)

Philosophy is dead...Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.  —Stephen Hawking From neuroscience to cosmology, Hawking to Dawkins,...

The Teaching Hub at the 2017 Eastern APA Meeting

What is The Teaching Hub? The Teaching Hub is a new collaborative meeting space, co-sponsored by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP)...

Philosophy in Dark Times: Conversation with Sandy Grant

Sandy Grant is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge and at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.  I spoke with Dr. Grant about philosophy's role in the...

What Burton’s ‘Anatomy of Melancholy’ tells us about modern day mood disorders

This post originally appeared on OUPblog and appears here as part of our partnership with them. Coming to us through the great illustrative tradition, as...

What Are You Reading…On the Misuse of Philosophy

This evening I visited some Alt-Right blogs in preparation for a paper I plan to work on over the Break. Much of the ideology...