Yearly Archives: 2017

2017
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What Are You Reading…On Friendship

Nathan Eckstrand -
This will be the last column I will write from Fond Du Lac, WI. In a couple days I will move my belongings into...
Work/Life Balance

APA Member Interview: Quassim Cassam

Skye Cleary -
Quassim Cassam was born in Mombasa, Kenya, and lived the early part of his life there, though he lived most of his adult life in the UK....
APA

APA Good Practices Guide Public Discussion Series, Part 2: Teaching, supervising, and mentoring

Blog Contributor -
This post is part of a series of posts soliciting public comment on the APA’s new Good Practices Guide. In the first post in...
Issues in Philosophy

Philosophy and Wonder Woman

Blog Contributor -
When I saw the Wonder Woman (2017) film, I felt ambivalent. I have had the opportunity to apply different philosophical lenses to analyze superheroes...
Caring for Democracy

Ethics and Contemporary Politics: Trump Junior’s Emails and the Rule of Law

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With the release last week of Donald Trump Junior’s emails, from which the public learned that he enthusiastically embraced the offer of a Kremlin...
APA

APA Good Practices Guide Public Discussion Series: About the Guide and how to use It

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This post is the first in a series of eight posts that will appear on the blog over the next few weeks. The posts...
APA

Jonathan Parry Awarded the APA’s 2017 Frank Chapman Sharp Prize

APA Communications -
The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Jonathan Parry (University of Birmingham) has been awarded the 2017 Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize...
Research

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Hipsters and Imaginative Resistance

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Hipsters are all around us: drinking their underroasted coffee, sporting funny facial hair and wearing knitted hats. I’m not a hipster myself. But some...
Work/Life Balance

APA Member Interview: Leif Wenar

Skye Cleary -
Leif Wenar holds the Chair of Philosophy and Law at King’s College London. Stuart Hampshire was his thesis advisor at Stanford, and after graduation...
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Milona and Stoner Win the 2017 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize

APA Communications -
The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Milona (Cornell University) and Dr. Ian Stoner (University of Minnesota) have been awarded...
Issues in Philosophy

Can Effective Altruism Create a World of Wellbeing?

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Global development has struggled to live up to expectations and has failed to meet the needs of millions of people living in poverty.  Economic...
APA

Alberto Urquidez Awarded the APA’s 2017 Journal of Value Inquiry Prize

APA Communications -
The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Alberto Urquidez has been awarded the 2017 Journal of Value Inquiry Prize (formerly the Rockefeller...
Research

What Are You Reading…On Mystery

Nathan Eckstrand -
Over the last month I’ve read two of Kate Ross’s Julien Kestrel mysteries. For those of you not aware, Julien Kestrel is a fictional...
Work/Life Balance

APA Member Interview: Carlos Alberto Sánchez

Skye Cleary -
Carlos Alberto Sánchez obtained a PhD from the University of New Mexico in 2006 and is currently Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State...
Research

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Do Antifascist Protests Help the Far Right?

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Proper societal organization relies on effective decision making processes. These processes influence our places of work, local communities, education, health services, and political institutions....