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APA Member Interview, Dr. Kelly Ann Cunningham
Dr. Kelly Ann Cunningham is currently a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Bentley University and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She received her PhD...
The Honesty Crisis
Honesty is under a lot of pressure today in areas of society ranging from politics to religion to celebrity culture to education. But honesty...
Backcasting: Why and How the Past and Present Drive the Future
Backcasting is one of several methods futurists use to understand possible futures. Futurists, of course, cannot “tell the future,” but they work hard to...
Can the Historical Materialist Be a Woman? On the Woman Question in Walter Benjamin
This year I agreed to be a part of a translation project: alongside two fellow academics, the aim was to translate the fifty-something page...
Who Defends Democracy and On What Grounds?
Democracies have been in decline, and many scholars are now rightly asking how this process can be halted. Much of the research on democratic...
2022 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy as Personal Quest and Collective Enterprise
Below is the audio recording of Margaret Gilbert’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy as Personal Quest and Collective Enterprise,” given at the 2022 Pacific Division...
Democratic Law in the State of Nature: A Kantian Reconstruction
A familiar puzzle sits at the heart of contemporary legal and political philosophy. On the one hand, rights are taken to exist prior to...
Depression as a Philosophical Problem: Rethinking the Meaning of Suffering in the Era of...
When I was sixteen, I was hospitalized for depression for six weeks and put on Prozac. At the time, I was taught that depression...
Evil in Narrative Fiction
Imagine you read Kant. You may disagree with him, you may be bored by his style, but you will persevere, for after all, he...
Socrates Would’ve Absolutely Adored ChatGPT
Go on, admit it—you use ChatGPT (or something like it) more than you are willing to admit. You use it for all sorts of...
