Yearly Archives: 2017

Simone de Beauvoir’s political philosophy resonates today

Simone de Beauvoir is rightly best known for declaring: ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.’ A less well-known facet of her philosophy,...

APA Member Interview: Tom Digby

Tom Digby is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Springfield College in Massachusetts. He says he was born with a desperate need for philosophy and that...

Edward Zalta Wins the 2016 Barwise Prize

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Edward Zalta (Stanford University) has been selected by the APA committee on philosophy and computers...

A Tribal World (IAI video)

We see community and society as good. Yet communities are also fortresses of privilege and conformity, as migrants know only too well. Is the...

Early Career Research Spotlight: Ryan Muldoon

This installment of the early-career research spotlight series looks at the work of Ryan Muldoon. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SUNY...

Philosophy with School Teachers

Beginning in 2010, I have led a number of Summer Seminars for School Teachers on Existentialism sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities....

Philosophy Is Not Advice

In these dark times, perhaps philosophy can help us. Perhaps. But what kind of philosophy do we need? It must be one that permits...

What Are You Reading…On Albert Einstein

Starting next week this column will feature books from the “Author Meets Critics” sessions of the Central APA 2017. But until then I am...

APA Member Interview: Antonella Mallozzi

Antonella Mallozzi is a Ph.D. student at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is writing her dissertation on modal epistemology under the supervision of David...

Love Story: Can love ever be eternal? (IAI video)

We want 'I love you' to mean forever. But neuroscientists claim that by three years into a relationship romantic activity in the brain has...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Dialogue and Demons–Plato on the Dangers of Normalization

“What? Can the devil speak true?” Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, sc3. There is a great deal of talk of ‘normalization’ in the numerous, and righteous, political...

Philosophical Podcasting

Barry Lam is the producer of the Hi-Phi Nation, the first story-driven philosophy podcast.  I spoke with Barry about his approach to philosophical story-telling, his...

Committee-Sponsored Sessions at the APA 2017 Central Division Meeting

The 2017 Central Division Meeting will take place March 1–4 at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center in Kansas City. For those...

What Are You Reading…On Michel de Montaigne

During this week in 1533, Michel de Montaigne was born in Guyenne, France. One of the great Renaissance thinkers of his day, Montaigne’s work...

APA Member Interview: Keith Dromm

Keith Dromm is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Louisiana Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University. He specializes in epistemology, Wittgenstein, applied ethics,...