Monthly Archives: April, 2017

Is Morality Dependent on Outcome?

We all want a better world and most see morality as helping to choose the right actions. Yet we can't know for sure the...

Introducing the APA Blog’s Journal Survey Project

Many of us understand all too well what a toilsome experience submitting to journals can be. Journals can take what feels like eons to get...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Campus Illiberalism as Moral Fundamentalism

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

The Impossible Demands of Morality

In an ‘Author Meets Critics’ session at the APA’s 2017 Central Division Meeting, author Lisa Tessman of Binghamton University met with critics Nomy Arpaly, Nicolas Comell,...

Committee-Sponsored Sessions at the APA 2017 Pacific Division Meeting

The 2017 Pacific Division Meeting will take place April 12–15 at the Westin Seattle. For those able to attend the meeting, the sessions sponsored...

The Well-Being of Philosophy

by Valerie Tiberius Note: The following is a draft of Valerie Tiberius's Presidential Address at the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association on March 3, 2017, in...

Major Sessions at the APA 2017 Pacific Division Meeting

The 2017 Pacific Division Meeting will take place April 12–15 at the Westin Seattle. For those able to attend the meeting, some of the...

What Are You Reading…On Giorgio Agamben

Before the What Are You Reading posts from the Central APA, this feature was looking at work done on specific philosophers. Now that those...

APA Member Interview: Katie Stockdale

Katie Stockdale is a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at Dalhousie University and Residential Dissertation Fellow at Cornell University. She works in moral psychology and...

Beyond Knowledge (IAI Video)

The quest for knowledge has driven progress and led us from the savannah to the stars. Yet knowledge is limited by culture, language, and...

How Metaphors Can Illuminate Neuroscience

In this interview, John Kaag speaks with Mark Johnson about how the philosophy of metaphors threatens the foundations of analytical philosophy and has made waves far beyond it, the link between Mark's...

Nietzsche in Shapes and Colors: A Book for Philosophers of the Future

Theresa Vishnevetskaya is the author of a new children's book on Nietzsche, called Nietzsche in Shapes and Colors. Described on Amazon as a "book...

How Philosophy is Almost Nothing or Everything

Mériam Korichi is a philosopher, theatre stage director, and the creator of the wildly popular Nights of Philosophy, which are all-night philosophy and art...

Making Medical Knowledge at Central APA

Miriam Solomon’s Author-Meets-Critics session was one of the last events at the APA's 2017 Central Division meeting. While the session faced a couple of setbacks...

What Are You Reading…On Organ Donation

As we are now in the month of April, I wanted to write this week’s post on a topic chosen from the list of...