Monthly Archives: April, 2017

Philosophy Through Fiction Winner!

Our Philosophy Through Fiction contest had 704 submissions, more than 10 times the number we expected. A dedicated team of readers at Sci Phi...

APA Member Interview: Chad Kidd

Chad Kidd is assistant professor of philosophy at the City College of New York. He lives in the neighborhood of Harlem in New York...

How playing Wittgensteinian language-games can set us free

We live out our lives amid a world of language, in which we use words to do things. Ordinarily we don’t notice this; we...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: The State of Exception, Fifteen Years After 9/11

This series, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, is aimed at exploring the various ways philosophy can be used to discuss issues of relevance to...

Joshua Glasgow Wins the 2017 Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Professor Joshua Glasgow (Sonoma State University) has been selected by the APA committee on international...

There’s a Green Card-holder at the heart of Greek philosophy

When it comes to immigration, not all foreigners are the same. The treatment of non-citizen legal residents, for example, raises very different moral and...

What Are You Reading…On Featured Books at the Pacific APA, Part 2

Here is the second of three posts on featured books at the latest Pacific APA. Teresa Morgan, Roman Faith and Christian...

APA Member Interview: Eric Brown

Born and raised in Ohio, Eric Brown studied philosophy and classics at the University of Chicago, with brief but fruitful sojourns at the Universities of...

The Teaching Workshop: Why Philosophy is a Good Introduction to Science

Another thing we can do to improve our pedagogy, along with reflecting on our failures, is to experiment. For this week, we have an...

Teaching About the Existence of God

Relatively few philosophers specialize in the philosophy of religion, but many teach an introductory problems course in which one usual topic is the existence...

Authenticity, Reality and Being

In a transient world, we're in love with the real. 'Real' experience, finding our 'real' self, even Coca Cola was in on the act...

Inside the APA: An Update on the Journal of the APA

by Amy Ferrer, John Heil, and Sally Hoffmann Most learned societies in the US have had journals for decades, but not the APA! Though the...

What Are You Reading… On Featured Books at the Pacific APA, Part 1

With the 2017 Pacific APA having just ended, this column will, for the next 3 weeks, highlight books that were featured in “Book Symposium”...

Mentoring the Mentors at Central APA with Will Fleisher

Will Fleisher took part in this year’s Central APA Workshop “Mentoring the Mentors.” Here, Will shares his thoughts on the workshop, and his tips...

APA Member Interview: Lawrence Becker

Lawrence C. Becker is a Fellow of Hollins University, where he taught philosophy from 1965-1989, and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus from the College of...