Monthly Archives: November, 2018

Deconstruction from the South: On Bruno Mazzoldi and Jacques Derrida

To promote dialogue among different philosophical traditions as equals, I claim here that the world is populated by a plurality of philosophical languages. In...

Diversifiying the Canon: Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa

Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa is an assistant professor at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on ancient philosophy, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of mental...

“Heidegger was a Nazi.” What now?

“B was a bigot” is a phrase that raises various questions. We can say it of various figures, both dead and alive. But this...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Man-Not

Tommy J. Curry is a Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the...

The Dawdlers Philosophy Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

“If I exist, I am a living creature to whom ideas are incidents, like aeroplanes in the sky; they pass over, more or less...

Happiness and Ignorance

In Sense and Sensibilia, J. L. Austin warned philosophers against the “constant obsessive repetition of the same small range of jejune ‘examples.’ ” We place...

The Post-Truth Condition

  Post-Truth Is More about Justification Than Truth It is popular, even among philosophers, to think about ‘post-truth’ as entailing a disregard for the truth, as...

What Are You Reading…On Cultural Identity

Cultural identity is constantly being torn down and rebuilt. Though both processes always occur, sometimes one is dominant. It seems to me that the...

APA Member Interview: Nathan Bauer

Dr. Nathan Bauer is an Instructor of Philosophy at Rowan University. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2008. He works...

What It’s Like to Be a Philosopher: Barry Lam

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...

Philosophizing in the Streets

One of the big discussions of our time centers on the nature of what is often called “public philosophy.” What is it? How do...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Wittgenstein in the Digital Age of Communication

In 2014, Sue Shellenbarger, writing for The Wall Street Journal, described the frustration and stress we often feel when trying to decipher a cryptic...

Women in Philosophy: Feminism and the F-Bomb

by Leigh M. Johnson This past September, Judge (now Justice) Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in a bid for confirmation to...

An Act of Racist Terrorism

Doing her best to offer Republican spin on the horrific October 27 shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, Counselor to President Donald Trump...

In the Face of Climate Collapse, Resist Hope

The United Nations’ Paris Agreement, which went into effect in 2016, set a goal of containing global temperature increases between 1.5 and 2° Celsius...