Yearly Archives: 2016

What Are You Reading…On Politics and Epistemology

What counts as true within the field of politics is influenced by many factors. The presence of a multitude of people, the power that...

APA Member Interview: Amia Srinivasan

Amia Srinivasan is a lecturer in philosophy at University College London and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She mostly thinks about topics...

Trans Experience in Philosophy

In our contemporary moment, there is a clash between the increased political and cultural legibility of trans people (signaled by the visibility of people...

The Sound of Silence: Where are the Community Stakeholders in the Building of the Big U?

An article in the July 2016 issue of Rolling Stone magazine strikes at the zenith of environmental and public philosophy. Indeed, this magazine is...

What Are You Reading…On Environmental Ethics

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just put out its annual “State of the Climate” report. After collating data from hundreds of scientists around...

APA Member Interview: Chris Barker

Chris Barker teaches political thought at Southwestern College. His most recent articles can be found at Contemporary Political Theory (forthcoming); History of European Ideas; American Political Thought; and Law, Culture...

Seven Ways You Can Support Academics in Turkey

The situation for academics in Turkey has dramatically worsened since the failed coup on July 15, a matter of increasing importance given the investigations,...

APA signs on to MESA statement about Turkey

In a unanimous vote, the board of officers of the American Philosophical Association (APA) has joined the statement by the Middle East Studies Association...

Discussion: Finding the time and space to write

The summer break is drawing to an end, summer writing deadlines are looming, and we're looking for tips on what time and space helps...

Survey: What Matters to Philosophers?

As chair of a philosophy department at a large state institution (University of Minnesota), I’ve frequently been called upon to defend philosophy and to...

What Are You Reading…On Political Rhetoric

//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js The Democratic and Republican national conventions have now come and gone, taking with them the pomp and circumstance that accompanied both. While a lot...

APA Member Interview: Mark D. White

Mark D. White is chair and professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY in New York City, where he...

The Ethics of Gauging PhD Applicants’ Interest Before Offering Admission or Financial Support

Here's one way philosophy PhD admissions could go: Your program offers admissions to the N top-rated applicants, figuring that X% will accept.  If the...

Tweeting Philosophy: Interview with TrueSciPhi’s Kelly Truelove

Kelly Truelove is a technologist with a Ph.D. in physics and long-running interests in philosophy and online communities. On TrueSciPhi.org, he publishes lists and analytics...

What Are You Reading…On Rawls

This past week I attended the North American Society for Social Philosophy's (NASSP) annual conference, where I presented a paper on Rawls' theory of...