Yearly Archives: 2018

2018
Work/Life Balance

APA Member Interview: Michaela McSweeney

Skye Cleary -
Michaela McSweeney is an assistant professor at Boston University. She works (mainly) on the metaphysics and epistemology of logic, but is also interested in...
Research

Comment on “Action and Luminosity”

Blog Contributor -
Editors note: Because of a major snowfall in Savannah, GA during the recent Eastern APA, the Blog of the APA will be hosting papers...
Research

Action and Luminosity

Blog Contributor -
Editors note: Because of a major snowfall in Savannah, GA during the recent Eastern APA, the Blog of the APA will be hosting papers...
Uncategorized

Voting is now open for Divisional elections, board member-at-large election, and GSC elections

mpmorris -
Today begins the 30-day voting period to elect new divisional officers, a new member at large of the APA board of officers, and two...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Black Issues in Philosophy: A Citadel of the Ideal

Lewis Gordon -
By Anthony Sean Neal Faculties at Black colleges and universities or HBCU’s often used philosophical thought to respond to the problem(s) they found to...
Research

What Are You Reading…On Friedrich Nietzsche

Nathan Eckstrand -
Friedrich Nietzsche is a fascinating figure for many reasons. Unlike previous philosophers who sought a dispassionate and neutral stance, Nietzsche connects his life and...
Work/Life Balance

APA Member Interview: Martin Vacek

Skye Cleary -
Martin Vacek is a philosopher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He works in metaphysics, especially (any aspect of)...
Issues in Philosophy

The Variety of Good Lives

Blog Contributor -
Suppose a person I shall call Leslie cares about others, treats them with respect, and seeks to minimize their distress. Leslie has also found...
Research

An Unknown American Contribution to the German Pessimism Controversy: Amalie J. Hathaway’s ‘Schopenhauer’

Blog Contributor -
Editors note: Because of a major snowfall in Savannah, GA during the recent Eastern APA, the Blog of the APA will be hosting papers...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Women in Philosophy: Notes from philoSOPHIA Conference 2018

Adriel M. Trott -
By Jennifer Scuro The academy is risk-averse. Joy James, philoSOPHIA 2018 keynote speaker It might be too ambitious of me to imagine that, for those of us who...
Issues in Philosophy

MAP: The Power of Just Doing Philosophy

Blog Contributor -
I started the Villanova chapter of Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) in the Spring term of 2017. Our chapter is just turning a year old,...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Questioning the Language of Service

Blog Contributor -
During my tenure at St. Olaf and other colleges, there has always been a lot of earnest talk about “giving back,” “serving others,” “working...
Teaching

Diversifying the Canon: An Interview with Peter Adamson

Michaela Maxwell -
With this post, the blog is kicking off a new series of interviews dedicated to diversifying the canon. We'd love for you to share...
Research

What Are You Reading…On Ecology

Nathan Eckstrand -
Ecology as a field overlaps with pretty much every other field of study, sometimes directly, other times indirectly. As the field that looks at...
Work/Life Balance

APA Member Interview: Owen Schaefer

Skye Cleary -
Owen Schaefer is a Research Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. His...