Monthly Archives: February, 2019

Barry Lam Awarded a Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship for 2019–2020

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Barry Lam, associate professor of philosophy at Vassar College, has been awarded a 2019–2020 Whiting...

Is There a Bat in Your Bias?

by Brian Glenney Are philosophical thought experiments activating biases or intuitions? The very thing that makes a thought experiment powerful, how it attracts an actively...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity

Iván Jaksic directs the Santiago Program for the Bing Overseas Studies Program and works at the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University....

Women in Philosophy: Aiming for Greater Inclusiveness in Academic Philosophy

by Helen De Cruz I’ve shifted institutions several times over the years (from Leuven to Oxford University to the VU Amsterdam to Oxford Brookes University)....

Syllabus Showcase: Zachary Barnett, Unacceptable Conclusions: Introduction to Skepticism

During grad school, I was encouraged to teach a course on skepticism. I modeled the course on two seminars on skepticism I took during...

On The Question of What It Means to be a Hindu Philosopher

In early December, I sat down with a member of my PhD cohort and had a conversation over coffee about what it means (to...

Black Issues in Philosophy: An Interview with Native American Activist Jordan Marie Daniel

by Andrew Cain Jordan Marie Daniel is a Native-American activist intellectual and program and community specialist whose academic focus is Tribal Law and Policy. She...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: When All Else Fails

Jason Brennan is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business,...

APA Member Interview: James William Lincoln

by Sabrina D. MisirHiralall James William Lincoln is a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Kentucky.  His AOSs are Ethics, Epistemology, and Social...

Why Ancient Greek Psychology is Still Valuable Today

Ancient Greek philosophy is rife with beautiful and interesting discussions of the soul. From the tripartite soul of Plato and Aristotle, to the intellectualism...

New Books in Philosophy Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

New Books in Philosophy (NBiP) is a podcast where philosophers are interviewed about their newly-published books. Each episode runs for roughly one hour, and...

Syllabus Showcase: Wendy Turgeon, Environmental Ethics

Offering a course on Environmental Ethics is not a rarity but in our increasingly opinion-grounded public discourse, it is fast becoming an essential element in...

Neurophilosophy and Transhumanism

The history of humanity is a history of self-improvement and part of that history is pursuing neurochemical gratification. Except for rare cases of mental...

Inside the APA: More on Public Statements and the Question of Rescinding Prizes

Back in 2016, I wrote an Inside the APA post titled “Statements, Resolutions, Letters, and Censures,” outlining the various ways the APA has of...

What Are You Reading…On Hermeneutics

Knowing how to interpret a text is a vital task for any philosopher, just as knowing how to interpret the actions of others is...