Monthly Archives: March, 2018

APA Member Interview: Desheng Zong

Desheng Zong is a professor of Philosophy at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics as well as the East China Normal University.  He became interested in...

Comment on “Grounding Physicalism and the Explanatory Gap”

Editors note: Because of a major snowfall in Savannah, GA during the recent Eastern APA, the Blog of the APA will be hosting papers...

Comment on “Grounding, Physicalism, and the Explanatory Gap”

Editors note: Because of a major snowfall in Savannah, GA during the recent Eastern APA, the Blog of the APA will be hosting papers...

Grounding Physicalism and the Explanatory Gap

Editors note: Because of a major snowfall in Savannah, GA during the recent Eastern APA, the Blog of the APA will be hosting papers...

Tell Us How to Fix the Lack of Diversity in Philosophy Journals

Philosophy departments in the U.S. and Britain are famously homogenous.  You already know that.  What you might not know is that mainstream Anglophone philosophy...

Provincializing Europe in a World Philosophy Course

Most philosophers in the United States today teach their philosophy courses as if places outside of Europe and North America simply never existed.  This...

What Are You Reading…On Violence

Violence has many definitions, and there are many types of violence. For some, violence is physical harm; others include psychological harm as well. At...

Black Issues in Philosophy: The African Decolonial Thought of Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí

By Lewis Gordon As the history of philosophy shows, its major developments often come from thinkers who were not formally trained as philosophers.  Among the...

Epistemic Insouciance

The following is based on a paper called 'Epistemic Insouciance' that is due to be published in the Journal of Philosophical Research. The Washington Post recently reported...

APA Member Interview: W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz on the Mystery of Existence

W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz received his doctorate at the University of Oxford and is currently professor at Zayed University in Dubai. In the early 1980s,...

Humanities Advocacy Day ’18: An interview with Stephen Kidd and Beatrice Gurwitz

National Humanities Advocacy Day (HAD) took place on Tuesday, March 13 after a stimulating meeting of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) the day before....

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Totalitarianism in Our Time

By Nathan Eckstrand Several dystopian classics became bestsellers—1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and The Handmaid’s Tale—following Donald Trump’s election, presumably by people who wished...

New APA Blog Series: Women in Philosophy

The APA is excited to announce a new series of the APA Blog called “Women in Philosophy,” which will operate under the auspices of...

Teaching Outside the Classroom: Dena Shottenkirk on Think Olio

Think Olio is a New York-based interdisciplinary lecture series founded by CUNY students Chris Zumtobel and David Kurfirst in March 2015, who started with...

Committee on the Status of Women Sponsored Panels at Pacific APA

The Committee on the Status of Women is pleased to announce two panels that it is co-sponsoring at the Pacific APA. Saturday, March 31, 2018,...