Yearly Archives: 2018

Philosophy in the Wild

Philosophy is about teaching. Specifically, teaching (and learning) to interrogate our views. I mean this in the broadest possible Sellarsean, hanging together-sense of the...

Guidelines for Assessing Doctoral Programs

Rankings of doctoral programs are typically unidimensional: They consider only the scholarly reputations of the faculty. Yet whether a graduate department effectively serves its...

What Are You Reading…On Memory

There are many relationships one can take to their memory. One can be skeptical of it, like Descartes, in the name of finding a...

Carnegie Mellon’s Maralee Harrell Wins the Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching

The American Philosophical Association (APA), the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), and the Teaching Philosophy Association (TPA) are pleased to announce that Professor...

APA Member Interview: Kenneth Aizawa

by Sabrina D. MisirHiralall Kenneth Aizawa works in the philosophy of psychology and philosophy of science.  Dr. Aizawa has worked at some very different institutions...

Women in Philosophy: Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher: Can I Contest an Editorial Decision?

by Jennifer Lackey The Women in Philosophy series is running a mini-series called "Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher." The first installment was posted last summer....

Weird Studies Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

Dear JF, So the APA blog has been kind enough to invite us to say something about our podcast. For the benefit of the blog’s...

The Ethics of #DeleteFacebook

Facebook’s foibles keep stacking up. It’s well known that the platform enabled Russian trolls to peddle propaganda and sow division before the 2016 election,...

Should Companies Hire Chief Ethics Officers?

Recode Co-founder and Editor Kara Swisher recently argued in a New York Times op-ed that perhaps companies in Silicon Valley should install “chief ethics...

Dusting Off Dualism?

Throughout the previous century dualism’s demise seemed imminent. During the 1970s Daniel Dennett (1978, p. 252) assessed the field of philosophy of mind and...

APA Member Interview: Nel Noddings

by Sabrina D. MisirHiralall Nel Noddings is Lee Jacks Professor of Child Education Emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of 21 books and...

APA Awards Grants to Seven Projects for 2018–2019

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that it will provide grants to seven philosophy-related projects in the 2018–2019 fiscal year. For more...

What It’s Like to Be a Philosopher: Manuel Vargas

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...

Early Career Research Spotlight: Josh Dohmen

This edition of the Early Career Research Spotlight focuses on the work of Josh Dohmen. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the...

You Can’t Keep a Good Idea Down: Reviving the Journal Survey Project

The Journal Survey Project was very popular when it was first launched in April 2017. The post announcing it was shared widely and became...