Monthly Archives: June, 2016

Early Career Research Spotlight: Conor Mayo-Wilson

This installment of the early-career research spotlight series looks at the work of Conor Mayo-Wilson. He is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department...

Short Story Competition: Philosophy Through Fiction

We are inviting submissions for the short story competition “Philosophy Through Fiction”, organized by Helen De Cruz (Oxford Brookes University), with editorial board members...

Welcome To Our Blog Interns!

The APA hosts an internship program permitting interested applicants to learn about the operations of the APA and help with its mission to promote philosophy....

Inside the APA: Secrets of the Pacific Division Revealed!

by Dominic McIver Lopes In a few days I step down as secretary–treasurer of the APA’s Pacific Division, and I’ve been asked to write a blog...

What Are You Reading…On Brexit

Though it only happened a few days ago, it is already a bit of a cliché to say that the Brexit vote represents the...

APA Member Interview: Cherie Braden

Cherie Braden is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder and an affiliated scholar in philosophy at Kenyon College. Tell me about...

The Inclusion Problem in Epistemology: The Case of the Gettier Cases (3 of 3)

Post Three of Three (Post 1 / Post 2) Shaw’s Nyāya and Mou’s Mohism are contemporary theories of epistemology deriving from historical sources in classical...

The Inclusion Problem in Epistemology: The Case of the Gettier Cases (2 of 3)

Post Two of Three (Post 1) The contemporary engagement with Gettier’s counterexamples builds off of Gettier’s actual discussion. So, it will be useful to rehearse...

The Inclusion Problem in Epistemology: The Case of the Gettier Cases (1 of 3)

Post One of Three In my prior posts on philosophy of mind, and critical thinking, I have used the phrase “the inclusion problem” to refer...

“Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands,” an 18-minute, bilingual documentary funded by an APA grant, is now online.

University of Texas at El Paso Assistant Professor Amy Reed-Sandoval is executive producer of the documentary funded by the American Philosophical Association through a Diversity...

What Are You Reading…On Identity and Violence

The Orlando shooting is a national tragedy. In its wake it has raised issues of civil rights, national security, gun control, and anti-LGBT sentiment,...

APA Member Interview: Allen Wood

Allen Wood was born in Seattle, studied at Reed College (Portland, Oregon) and Yale University, taught at Cornell University, Yale University, Stanford University and Indiana...

How to be an Effective Chair

Chairing a conference session isn’t glamorous and doesn’t pay well (or at all). Few give it much thought. This might lead one to think...

Philosophers on the (Green) Market

A slight, gray-haired woman walked up to the table, smiled, and got straight to business. She took out a piece of paper on which...

Awards Roundup: May 2016

APA Awards John Brunero, University of Nebraska Lincoln Winner of the 2016 Article Prize William Lane, Assistant General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...