Monthly Archives: August, 2018

Mistakes and objectivity. Myths in the history of philosophy (Part II)

“It’s raining.” While reading or writing this sentence now, I think many things. I think that the sentence is a rather common example in...

Diversity and Philosophy Journals: How to Avoid Conservative Gatekeeping

I’m very proud of the work I’ve done as editor of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal over the last seven years. In 2017,...

Women in Philosophy: Notes from FEMMSS Conference 2018

By Catherine Womack August 1—5, 2018 marked the 7th biennial FEMMSS conference—Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies, held in Corvallis, Oregon. This year’s theme...

The Partially Examined Life Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

Here's my routine for the last nine years: Every two or three weeks, I read some philosophy, take some notes, and talk for two...

The Integrity of Thinking

When we look at our political landscape today, I wonder where has our integrity gone? Teachers want to know how to explain (if that’s...

Diversifying the Canon: Interview with Kathleen Higgins

Kathleen Higgins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of several books, including Nietzsche's “Zarathustra” (Lexington, 2010); The Music of Our...

APA Blog Undergraduate Public Philosophy Award

The Blog of the American Philosophical Association is holding a public philosophy writing contest for undergraduate philosophy students, sponsored by the University of Massachusetts-Lowell...

Who are we? Myths in the history of philosophy (Part I)

“Instead of assuming that the historical figures we study are motivated by the same philosophical worries that worry us, we need to understand why...

APA Member Interview: Karen Ng

Karen Ng is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She works mainly on nineteenth-century post-Kantian thought (especially Hegel) and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. What...

Diversity and Philosophy Journals: Introduction

by Nicole Hassoun, Eric Schwitzgebel, and Subrena Smith Unfortunately, philosophy is among the least demographically diverse academic disciplines in North America (women-in-philosophy.org). For example, women in...

Embrace the Void Podcast: Life Outside Academia

There’s an Agora born every minute. It’s hard not to feel bad for Socrates, stuck with one measly Agora to philosophize in. Imagine if he’d...

Black Issues in Philosophy: The Philosophical Project of Political Speech

by Derefe Kimarley Chevannes No leader can successfully lead this race of ours without giving an interpretation of the awakened spirit of the New Negro,...

Philosophy Phriday: A Museum, Ants, and an APA Central to Remember

By Benjamin D. Blanchard Every year, the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting features stellar presentations on philosophy by philosophers hailing from a wide range...

A Neuro-Philosophy of History: “Sustainable History”; with Dignity, and without Directionality

Philosophies of history tend to assume one form or another of directionality. For an important number of philosophers, History has been understood to have...

What Are You Reading…On the Uses of Introductory Logic

Being familiar with logic is a double-edged sword. While it teaches rules about what counts as a good argument, it can be frustrating to...