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Remarks Upon Receiving the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award
Note from the editors: These remarks were composed by Dr. Marcos in Spanish and delivered at the awards ceremony of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s annual meeting in Quintana Roo, Mexico, in June 2024, where Dr. Marcos received the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award. The original can be found on...
Notes for a phenomenology of heartbreak
This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with Filosofía en la Red. The APA Blog is committed to amplifying underrepresented voices in philosophy. If you or someone you know has research that the APA community...
“I Can See Your Gender”: Givenness at the Paris Olympics
Something catches the eye—no, not something, somebody—but the passage from something to somebody takes a fraction of an instant. The familiarity of the person’s outline, and how they move through space, makes my inference to their personhood all but guaranteed. Yet, I have no grasp of the particularities of...
Designing the Grade as a Target to Strive For
At the end of the semester, I calculate each of my students’ final grades. Soon, prospective employers or admissions officers will consult these grades in deciding whether to offer my students opportunities. Transcript readers presumably interpret grades as evidence of students’ academic proficiency. Yet we as professors have a...
On and Off in Life and Death
Less than a year after the American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett put out his latest collection of quality ruminations on his life, titled I've Been Thinking (2023), he died of interstitial lung disease in a bed at Maine Medical Center in Portland on April 19, 2024. He surely had...
APA Member Interview: Ding
Ding works in feminist political philosophy, social metaphysics, and philosophy of law. They are currently finishing their PhD at the University of Arizona. Their dissertation explores the often-unexpected ways in which transgender equality not only poses difficult challenges to, but sheds constructive light on, our understanding of the meaning...
Meet the APA: Thom Brooks
Thom Brooks is Professor of Law and Government at Durham University’s Law School where he was Dean for five long years. His background is political and legal philosophy, including a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sheffield under Bob Stern and Leif Wenar.
What do you do at the...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Nietzsche as Metaphysician
Justin Remhof is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University and the author of Nietzsche’s Constructivism: A Metaphysics of Material Objects. His new book, Nietzsche as Metaphysician, examines aspects of Nietzsche’s thought that have received little attention in the literature, including his view of what makes metaphysics...
Philosophers Can Be Awesome At Political Phone Banking
As I write, the 2024 U.S. federal election is in its final stretch, and it’s a nail-biter. A few thousand swing voters may well decide the future of the country when it comes to climate change, social injustice, abortion access, international war, free speech, and even the basic structure...
The Adult Talk Test: Love Ordinary Democracy when Living Philosophically
The adult talk test asks whether a politician could conceivably have an adult conversation with you. If they could, they are serious contenders for a democratic office, and if they could not, they are disqualified from democratic office. Obviously a lot hangs on the "could" and "could not," as well as on the meaning of "adult conversation."
