Monthly Archives: December, 2017

2017 Eastern Division Presidential Address

Continuing our series of posting public lectures from past APA meetings, we have the 2017 Eastern Division Presidential Address by Eva Kittay.  The talk...

2016 Pacific Divison Dewey Lecture

Continuing our series of posting public lectures from past APA meetings, we have the 2016 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture by Linda Zagzebski.  The talk is...

APA Newsletters, Fall 2017 Edition – Part Three

The latest edition of the APA newsletters—fall 2017—is now available. This brief series provides a synopsis of the contents of each newsletter. The APA newsletters...

2016 Pacific Division APA Presidential Address

Continuing our series of posting public lectures from past APA meetings, we have the 2016 Pacific Division Presidential Address by Leslie Francis.  The talk...

Black Issues in Philosophy: Australian Continental Philosophy

By Bryan Mukandi I suspect that just about every Shona child who grew up in the Zimbabwe of the 1980s through to the mid-1990s grew...

Could the force really be with us?

Why materialists are wrong and the Jedi right, and how panpsychism might revolutionize science. How can we explain the ongoing mass appeal of Star Wars?...

2016 Central Division APA Dewey Lecture

Continuing our series of posting public lectures from past APA meetings, we have the 2016 Central Division Dewey Lecture by Charles Mills.  The talk...

APA Member Interview: Susan Levin

Susan B. Levin is Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Smith College. Her current scholarship focuses on the debate over...

2016 Central Division APA Presidential Address

Over the next couple of weeks, we're going to be posting audio (and text) of some public addresses from the previous two years APA...

APA Newsletters, Fall 2017 Edition – Part Two

The latest edition of the APA newsletters—fall 2017—is now available. This brief series provides a synopsis of the contents of each newsletter. The APA newsletters...

Negativity and Democracy: Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition

Vasilis Grollios, Negativity and Democracy: Marxism and the Critical Theory Tradition, Routledge, 2017. (Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory Series) Despite the crisis and the fact...

From Awe to Awesome

Have you heard the word “awesome” lately? It’s in our films, newsfeeds, and songs; it’s on our t-shirts, menus, and products. “Awesome sells” must...

What Are You Reading…On David Hume

David Hume has had a profound impact on many intellectuals. My first encounter with him came at the end of an undergraduate class entitled...

APA Newsletters, Fall 2017 Edition – Part One

The latest edition of the APA newsletters—fall 2017—is now available. This brief series provides a synopsis of the contents of each newsletter. The APA newsletters...

APA Member Interview: Aaron James

Aaron James is a Professor of Philosophy at UC Irvine.  He studied with T. M. Scanlon and Christine Korsgaard at Harvard for his PhD,...