Monthly Archives: July, 2018

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Work/Life Balance

APA Member Interview: Andreja Novakovic

Skye Cleary -
Andreja Novakovic is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside.  She works primarily on 19th Century European Philosophy, with side interests in...
Research

Some Notes on Philosophical Methodology, or Salvaging Cassirer

Nathan Eckstrand -
By Corey McCall The reflections on method that I’m sharing here grew out of a paper that I presented at this year’s Central Division Meeting...
Issues in Philosophy

Living for Others: What Monasticism Can Tell Us About Ourselves

Blog Contributor -
This May I did something uncommon. I spent five days at the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery near Louisville, Kentucky. On my fourth...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Black Issues in Philosophy: A Conversation on Sorry to Bother You

Lewis Gordon -
Steven Manicastri is a political theorist and labor organizer.  Having recently viewed Sorry to Bother You and seeing its clear relevance to his own research...
APA

Call for New Associate Editor

Skye Cleary -
The APA Blog is looking to take on a new associate editor. Blog editors develop, solicit, and edit blog content, and help manage the...
Issues in Philosophy

Fuzzy Sets: Intellectual Dark Web, New Atheism, Logical Positivism and Behaviourism 

Blog Contributor -
Introduction Philosophical analysis, if done carefully, can reveal the manufacturing of a social narrative that is designed to instigate public attention. In this article I...
Research

What Are You Reading…On Philosophy of Mind

Nathan Eckstrand -
Philosophy of Mind has a lot of material to work with these days. More studies are coming out every year which challenge fundamental assumptions...
Issues in Philosophy

Trans Women/Men and Adoptive Parents: An Analogy

Blog Contributor -
Maybe we should think of it like this: Trans women/men are to women/men as adoptive parents are to parents. There are disanalogies of course,...
Issues in Philosophy

Stoics Should be Vegetarian

Blog Contributor -
Vegetarianism is a big deal, ethically speaking. It was put on the map in terms of public philosophy by utilitarian Peter Singer, with his...
Research

Chronos in Aristotle’s Physics: On the Nature of Time

Nathan Eckstrand -
This year's Central APA featured an author-meets critics session on Chelsea Harry's book Chronos in Aristotle's Physics: On the Nature of Time. In this...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Women in Philosophy: Hypatia: The Good Woman?

Adriel M. Trott -
by Danielle A. Layne This is not a post on Hypatia wherein I rehearse what most of us already know about the Neoplatonic philosopher and...
Research

The Joy of Fish and Chinese Animal Painting

Blog Contributor -
Representations of animals in traditional Chinese painting are among the oldest known motifs and are filled with rich symbolic implications.  Animal paintings make animals...
Work/Life Balance

APA Member Interview: Francey Russell

Skye Cleary -
Francey Russell is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Humanities and Philosophy departments at Yale University, after receiving her PhD from the University of Chicago....
Philosophy in the Contemporary World

How to Disagree, or Experiments in Social Construction

Nathan Eckstrand -
A professor in Cleveland explores a triple analogy: social practice art / philosophy as a way of life / so-called "radical" pedagogy
Issues in Philosophy

What Is It Like to Be A Philosopher? An Interview With Joel Sati

Blog Contributor -
The APA blog will be working with Cliff Sosis of What it is Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff's long-form...
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