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Why We Blame the Dead
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
—Shakespeare, Cymbeline
A common saying...
Building Online Community and Mutual Membership, Part 2: Pushing the Peanut Forward; Why Our...
The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a two-part mini-series titled "Building Online Community and Mutual Mentorship." This mini-series is co-authored by Cheryl Frazier...
Who Is Building the Wall?
Magnifica Humanitas, Anthropic, and the Future of AI
Unable to escape the stream of media commentary surrounding Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical on safeguarding humanity...
Camus and Confronting the Horror of the Everyday Absurd
Albert Camus (1913–1960) has been one of my favorite philosophical writers writing about existence since my undergraduate days long ago. Camus was a playwright,...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist
David Bather Woods is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, particularly philosophical...
APA Member Interview, Brant Entrekin
Brant Entrekin is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who works in social/political philosophy, applied ethics, and feminist philosophy. He...
Jedda and the Racial Logic of Cinema’s Platonic Cave
Charles Chauvel’s Jedda (1955) holds an important place in the history of Australian cinema. Long considered a classic, it tells the tale of a...
The Politics and Ethics of Autocratic Elections
Why do many autocrats hold at least somewhat competitive elections? And how should democrats engage, if at all, in such elections? Assuming that the...
Asking What Philosophers are Asking: A Question-Focused Reading Strategy
In this blog post, I describe a new assignment and reading strategy I am developing for upper-level classes. The pedagogy is a question-focused pedagogy...
2023 Eastern Division Presidential Address: Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to...
Below is the audio recording of David Chalmers’s presidential address, “Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to Large Language Models,” given at...
