Monthly Archives: October, 2018

The SCI PHI Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

Hello and welcome to the APA Blog post of the SCI PHI Podcast! From Bloomington, Indiana, I’m Nick Zautra. What is the SCI PHI Podcast? SCI...

New Prize Competition: Diversifying Analytic Theology

Thanks to funding from the American Philosophical Association's Diversity and Inclusiveness Fund, the editors of the Journal of Analytic Theology are pleased to announce...

What Makes a Life Meaningful?

In the 2010 book Meaning in Life and Why It Matters, Susan Wolf asks “what kind of lives are meaningful” and proposes that meaningful...

What Are You Reading…On Willpower

Like many readers of this blog, and probably the vast majority of Americans, I followed last week’s headlines with anxiety and concern. Almost every...

What It’s Like to be a Philosopher: Michelle Catalano

The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...

APA Member Interview: Laurie Shrage

Laurie Shrage is Professor of Philosophy at Florida International University in Miami, FL. She is a pragmatic pluralist, whose career in philosophy has mostly...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Consciousness in Locke

Shelley Weinberg is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign specializing in early modern philosophy and especially in the...

Kant and Hegel in Sellars’ Space of Reasons?

It has often been noted that philosophy, at least on most self-understandings of the discipline, has a uniquely important relationship to its historical past. ...

Women in Philosophy: Interview with Lauren Freeman, Editor of the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy

Below is an interview with Lauren Freeman, the newly appointed editor of the APA Feminism and Philosophy Newsletter. The interview was conducted via email. Congratulations...

The Vim Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

The Vim Podcast is the podcast of a group of academic philosophers who have banded together to think about our current political environment. Our...

Call for Pitches from Associate Editor, Dr. Sabrina D. MisirHiralall

by Sabrina D. MisirHiralall I am delighted to join the Editorial Team of the Blog of APA.  As the Associate Editor of the Blog of APA,...

Do Ideas Matter to Philosophy? How Obsession with Recognition Blocks Diversity

When suffering from writer’s block, I spent much of my time in the library browsing through books that were shelved beside the ones I originally looked...

I’ve hosted “Ask a Philosopher” for two years. Here’s what I’ve learned.

For the past couple of years, Brooklyn Public Philosophers—the public philosophy event series I organize—has set up a booth at New York City farmers’...

So You Want to Teach Some Chinese Philosophy?

Jonardon Ganeri has written a piece on this blog, with helpful suggestions on how non-experts may introduce materials from Indian philosophy into their thematically-organised...

Diversifying the Canon: Interview with Julie Walsh

Julie Walsh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. Her research centers on questions about human freedom and metaphysics of mind in the...