Yearly Archives: 2018

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...

What Are You Reading…On the Genesis of Economics

I am almost finished teaching my second semester of Business Ethics. While my students get a decent survey of moral norms from a variety...

Discussion: The Relationship Between Philosophy, Science & Religion

In an interview for What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?, Clifford Sosis asks Helen De Cruz (Oxford Brookes University) about the relationship between...

Imprints in Time: a Moderately Robust Past

Editors note: Because of a major snowfall in Savannah, GA during the Eastern APA, the Blog of the APA has been hosting papers by...

Women in Philosophy: Minority Identities, “Minority Concerns”

By Tiffany Gordon Most of my work is situated along the lines of my identity. It should not be surprising, then, that since I am...

On Diversifying the Classroom from Within: An Interview with Perry Zurn

Perry Zurn is Assistant Professor of philosophy at American University. He researches broadly in the fields of political philosophy, gender theory, and applied ethics, and his work contributes...

APA Member Interview: Simon Noriega-Olmos

Simon Noriega-Olmos (PhD Princeton, 2008) is the FCT-Researcher at the Center of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, History of Philosophy Group.  His field...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Existentialist’s Survival Guide

Gordon Marino took his Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Director...

Black Issues in Philosophy: On Teaching Anna Julia Cooper’s “What Are We Worth” in Introductory Courses

By Thomas Meagher Anna Julia Cooper begins her essay, “What Are We Worth?”—a chapter from her classic book A Voice from the South (1892), considered...

Are we better off giving up the myth of perfect rationality?

“There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have great admiration for stupidity” – the sentiment behind Oscar Wilde’s...