Yearly Archives: 2016

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...

The Critical Theory Workshop: The Mo(ve)ment of Contemporary Philosophy

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

What Are You Reading…On Sustainability and Change (Part 1)

I spent the past week in the company of an inspiring group of individuals who are committed to building a sustainable world. Organized by...

#IdeasMatter: Interview with Nicolas Berggruen

Charles Taylor has been awarded the first $1 million Berggruen Philosophy Prize. According to the Berggruen Institute’s website, “The Berggruen Prize is awarded annually...

APA Member Interview: Sandy Grant

Sandy Grant is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge and at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. She tweets at @TheSandyGrant. What excites you about philosophy? It is...

The Teaching Workshop: Responding to Plagiarism

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

The Critical Theory Workshop at the Sorbonne: A Trojan Horse in the Academy

The APA Blog is beginning with this post a series on the work of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique. The Critical Theory...

After the End of Truth (Video)

A generation raised on Foucault and Derrida has learned to distrust claims to objective truth. Yet the mantra that 'there is no truth' is...

What Are You Reading…On Buddhism and Meditation

This past week I have been rereading parts of a book on spirituality that helped me when I was younger. The book, Radical Acceptance:...

APA Member Interview: Helga Varden

Helga Varden is an associate professor of philosophy and of women and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has a...

A Journal Editor’s Wish List

On any given day, it’s not uncommon for me to check my e-mail and have over 25 new messages regarding editorial matters. Some are...