Monthly Archives: October, 2016

D’Alessandro, Phillips, and Rimell win the 2016 Sanders Graduate Student Awards

The APA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Sanders Graduate Student Awards: William D’Alessandro (University of Illinois at...

What Are You Reading…On Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy

I was recently in Salt Lake City, Utah for the Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy’s (SPEP) annual meeting. There were many interesting sessions,...

APA Member Interview: Manuel Vargas

Manuel Vargas is an incoming Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego and an outgoing Professor of Philosophy and Law at...

The Teaching Workshop: The Point of Philosophy

Welcome again to The Teaching Workshop, where your questions related to pedagogy are answered. Each post features questions submitted by readers with answers from...

Showing off is seen as insincere, but is it always bad?

Albert Einstein once said: ‘I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.’ In that quip is the claim that virtue does not parade itself. The virtuous...

What’s Critical about Psychoanalysis?

This post is the third in a series on the work of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique. The Critical Theory Workshop is...

In Search of the Self (Video)

There is no self, no 'I', only a flickering illusion.  So claim many neuroscientists and philosophers.  Yet for the rest of us, the denial...

Developing the Virtues

This post originally appeared on OUPblog and appears here as part of our partnership with them. Helicopter parenting is denounced by onlookers (e.g., David Brooks) as...

Accessible and Inaccessible Disciplines: why philosophy and science are similar but are treated differently

This post originally appeared on OUPblog and appears here as part of our partnership with them. Amongst my books is a late nineteenth century edition...

What Are You Reading…On Sustainability and Change (Part 2)

Last week I compiled a list of books that inspired participants at a conference I attended to pursue unconventional career paths. As is often...

APA Member Interview: Amy Cools

Creator and editor of Ordinary Philosophy blog, podcast, and history of ideas travel series, Amy Cools holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy with an emphasis...

Course Spotlight: Philosophy & Time Travel

This is the inaugural post in a Course Spotlight series. In this post, Lucas Dunlap presents Philosophy & Time Travel. Basics The course is called “Philosophy...

Fascism in America: Donald Trump, America’s Hitler of the 21st Century?

Over the recent months the voices warning of seeing in Trump a new fascism rising in America have waxed and waned. With great urgency...

Matter and Mind: Is consciousness inexplicable? (Video)

Neuroscience has enabled us to explain how the brain affects the body. Yet there is no theory to explain how the matter of the...

The Job Market: Hiring at Hunter College and the Graduate School, CUNY

I have two departments--Hunter College and the Graduate School, CUNY--and they are quite distinct.  Hunter College is a four-year urban college with a highly diverse, economically...