Monthly Archives: June, 2018

A Farewell Post

After three years as the Lead Editor of the APA Blog, as my term comes to an end, I am writing to say goodbye,...

Kristopher McDaniel (Syracuse) Wins the APA’s 2018 Sanders Book Prize

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Professor Kristopher McDaniel (Syracuse University) has been awarded the 2018 Sanders Book Prize for his...

APA Member Interview: Elyse Purcell

Elyse Purcell is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oneonta and the Secretary-Treasurer of the APA...

Against Lynching as a Case “Against Empathy”

When I first heard about Paul Bloom’s book, Against Empathy, I was keen to be persuaded to his view. I knew the bare outline...

Post-Truth and Philosophy

We live with truth all around us and yet some people readily embrace lies. Everywhere you turn among the academics and pundits, we constantly...

What Are You Reading…On Islamic Philosophy

There was a time when knowledge from Ancient Greece was studied primarily by the Islamic World. Philosophers like Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and Ibn Sina...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Hiddenness Argument

This week's Recently Published Book Spotlight was written by Andrew Moon, an assistant professor of philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Because Andrew and his...

Women in Philosophy: The Ethical Call to Decolonize the Philosophical Canon

By Miranda Pilipchuk “You go to women? Do not forget the whip!” I was an undergraduate philosophy major when I first read those infamous words...

Does Philosophical Language Have to Be Difficult?

Readers have sometimes asked why my books aren’t more accessible, why they can’t be easily understood by non-academics. At first, I was surprised that these...

Diversifying the Canon: Interview with Julia Borcherding

Julia Borcherding is currently a Bersoff Faculty Fellow in Philosophy at NYU. In the fall of 2019, she will take up a position as...

APA Member Interview: Asia Forcucci

Asia Forcucci is an intern working with the APA blog for the summer. She is an undergraduate student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. ...

What is Critical Theory’s Role Today?

The 2018 Critical Theory Workshop brings together scholars, activists and artists from around the world, whose work cuts across numerous fields and disciplines. The...

Subversive Laughter in Reynard the Fox

Medieval literature abounds in stories about animals, of which there are two main, easily distinguished, varieties: animal fables and beast epic. Animal fables claim...

Some Thoughts on Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas

By Lewis Gordon Juliet Hooker is a political theorist in the Department of Political Science at Brown University.  Her work focuses on the contradictions of...

Philosophy in the Public Interest

There appears to be a growing interest among academic philosophers in the idea of “public philosophy,” understood minimally as philosophy addressed to a more...