Socrates Talks Tennis
With the U.S. Open Tennis Championships (August 27-Sept. 9) on the horizon, it’s time to think about tennis and philosophy. The problem is that...
The Ethics of Defense Lawyers
In 1993 the American Bar Association conducted a nationwide survey of all their members to gauge personality types. They concluded that 78% of lawyers...
Poster Presentations at Philosophy Conferences
By Mike Morris
The presentation of papers at the divisional meetings of the APA has been fundamental to the association since its inception, and the...
Beyond Plato’s Cave
I often discuss philosophy with my eight-year-old son. Although he can’t yet grasp the full complexities of my work, he’s deeply interested in thinking...
Living for Others: What Monasticism Can Tell Us About Ourselves
This May I did something uncommon. I spent five days at the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery near Louisville, Kentucky. On my fourth...
Fuzzy Sets: Intellectual Dark Web, New Atheism, Logical Positivism and Behaviourism
Introduction
Philosophical analysis, if done carefully, can reveal the manufacturing of a social narrative that is designed to instigate public attention. In this article I...
Trans Women/Men and Adoptive Parents: An Analogy
Maybe we should think of it like this: Trans women/men are to women/men as adoptive parents are to parents. There are disanalogies of course,...
Stoics Should be Vegetarian
Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy by utilitarian Peter Singer, with his...
What Is It Like to Be A Philosopher? An Interview With Joel Sati
The APA blog will be working with Cliff Sosis of What it is Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff's long-form...
Fat Female Philosophers
by Anonymous
How many fat female philosophers do you know?
One day as I scrolled through my Instagram, my major path into the body positive...