Monthly Archives: September, 2017

The Strangeness of Things

We assume that the world is made up of individual ‘things’. Yet from Heraclitus to high-energy physics, the search for what these might be...

APA Member Interview: Martin Shuster

Martin Shuster teaches at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD, where he is a member of the Center for Geographies of Justice and where he...

Writing for the Ten Percent

The following is adapted from my advice to aspiring writers of philosophical fiction at the Philosophy Through Fiction workshop at Oxford Brookes last June. I...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Reflections on Charlottesville

The following text is a revised transcript of a talk Lewis Gordon gave to the Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) as part of...

Plot as argument, argument as plot (Part 3)

This is Part 3 of a 3-part series "Plot as argument, argument as plot".  Part 1: How I Came to Write a Philosophical Novel is available here....

Plot as argument, argument as plot (Part 2)

This is Part 2 of a 3-part series "Plot as argument, argument as plot".  Part 1: How I Came to Write a Philosophical Novel is available...

Plot as argument, argument as plot (Part 1)

At the Fiction Writing for Philosophers Workshop at Oxford Brookes University in June 2017, Dr. Sara L. Uckelman, the published speculative fiction writer and...

What Are You Reading…On Cosmopolitanism

Since my last “What Are You Reading” column, I have traveled halfway around the world to China, where I am beginning a position teaching...

APA Member Interview: Stephanie Heckman

Stephanie Heckman obtained a Master of Arts in Philosophy and Psychology and a Master of Sciences in International and European Politics from the University of Edinburgh....