Monthly Archives: July, 2017

The Story of Romance

From love at first sight to falling head over heels, it seems love isn’t something we do but something that happens to us. Yet...

APA Good Practices Guide Public Discussion Series, Part 4: Interviewing

This post is part of a series of posts soliciting public comment on the APA’s new Good Practices Guide. In the first post in...

Fiction as Experimental Philosophy: Interview with Bryony Pierce

Bryony Pierce attended the Fiction Writing for Philosophers Workshop that was held at Oxford Brookes University on June 1-2, 2017 and here she reflects on...

APA Good Practices Guide Public Discussion Series, Part 3: Professional development and placement

This post is part of a series of posts soliciting public comment on the APA’s new Good Practices Guide. In the first post in...

What Are You Reading…On Friendship

This will be the last column I will write from Fond Du Lac, WI. In a couple days I will move my belongings into...

APA Member Interview: Quassim Cassam

Quassim Cassam was born in Mombasa, Kenya, and lived the early part of his life there, though he lived most of his adult life in the UK....

APA Good Practices Guide Public Discussion Series, Part 2: Teaching, supervising, and mentoring

This post is part of a series of posts soliciting public comment on the APA’s new Good Practices Guide. In the first post in...

Philosophy and Wonder Woman

When I saw the Wonder Woman (2017) film, I felt ambivalent. I have had the opportunity to apply different philosophical lenses to analyze superheroes...

Ethics and Contemporary Politics: Trump Junior’s Emails and the Rule of Law

With the release last week of Donald Trump Junior’s emails, from which the public learned that he enthusiastically embraced the offer of a Kremlin...

APA Good Practices Guide Public Discussion Series: About the Guide and how to use It

This post is the first in a series of eight posts that will appear on the blog over the next few weeks. The posts...

Jonathan Parry Awarded the APA’s 2017 Frank Chapman Sharp Prize

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Jonathan Parry (University of Birmingham) has been awarded the 2017 Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Hipsters and Imaginative Resistance

Hipsters are all around us: drinking their underroasted coffee, sporting funny facial hair and wearing knitted hats. I’m not a hipster myself. But some...

APA Member Interview: Leif Wenar

Leif Wenar holds the Chair of Philosophy and Law at King’s College London. Stuart Hampshire was his thesis advisor at Stanford, and after graduation...

Milona and Stoner Win the 2017 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Milona (Cornell University) and Dr. Ian Stoner (University of Minnesota) have been awarded...

Can Effective Altruism Create a World of Wellbeing?

Global development has struggled to live up to expectations and has failed to meet the needs of millions of people living in poverty.  Economic...