Monthly Archives: October, 2017

Featured Philosopher: Donna-Dale Marcano

What is black feminist philosophy? To raise this question, argues Donna-Dale Marcano, an associate professor of philosophy and Director of the Human Rights Center...

What Are You Reading…On Children

At the place where I’m living—the International Teachers Apartments at SIAS University—children hold a prominent place. Many who teach here are raising families, and...

APA Member Interview: Maria daVenza Tillmanns

Maria daVenza Tillmanns teaches a program that does philosophy with children in underserved San Diego schools in partnership with the University of California, San Diego.  In...

After the End of Evidence

In this week's talk on IAI Player, we consider whether modern physics has paradoxically outgrown the need for evidence. We think science is based on...

Early Career Research Spotlight: Katie Stockdale

This edition of the Early Career Research Spotlight focuses on the work of Katie Stockdale. Katie is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sam...

Why Stoicism Is Being Updated

In a previous interview with the APA Blog, Lawrence Becker spoke about what sparked his interest in academic philosophy, what he is currently doing,...

What Are You Reading…On Music

The experience of music is, at its best, a transcendental one. Music takes you beyond your everyday experience into a world that you may...

‘Know thyself’ is not just silly advice: it’s actively dangerous

by Bence Nanay There is a phrase you are as likely to find in a serious philosophy text as you are in the wackiest self-help...

How Do We Separate Truth From Rhetoric?

We assume that the truth of what we say is independent of the way we say it. Yet how we express something plays a...

Cinematic Nihilism

Cultural critics commonly warn against the dangers of nihilism. Associated with the decline and decay of our highest values, nihilism traditionally has been treated...

Practical and Impractical Advice for Philosophers Writing Fiction

Eric Schwitzgebel has a pleasingly liberal view of what constitutes philosophy. A philosopher is anyone wrestling with the “biggest picture framing issues” of… well,...

Black Issues in Philosophy: Introduction

Dear Readers: We here introduce Black Issues in Philosophy: Blog of the APA Committee on the Status of Black Philosophers. The purpose of this series is...

What Are You Reading…On Eastern Thought

Since arriving in China, I’ve had the chance to see up close what multiple books I read to prepare for coming told me: that...

APA Member Interview: Sarah Donovan

Sarah K. Donovan is an associate professor of philosophy and the interim dean of integrated learning at Wagner College. Her teaching and research interests...

Everything and Nothing

Some claim it created the universe. Sartre argued it was central to our Being. Yet Nothing turns out to be strangely elusive. Scientists can't...