Monthly Archives: February, 2019

Sneak Peak of Forthcoming Presentation at the Central APA: Let’s Inquire About Sex!

When college goes well, students graduate prepared to pursue meaningful lives and enter the adult spheres of work, politics, and civil society. When it...

Alastair Norcross: What It Is Like to Be a Philosopher?

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...

APA Member Interview: Sara Aronowitz

by Sabrina D. MisirHiralall Sara Aronowitz is a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University in the Concepts and Cognition Lab. She studies why we remember...

The Statistical Crisis of Science: Where are the Philosophers?

"onfusion about the foundations of the subject is responsible, in my opinion, for much of the misuse of the statistics that one meets in...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Post-Truth, Fanaticism, and Facebook

In 2002, Hubert Dreyfus published a paper, “Anonymity versus Commitment: The Dangers of Education on the Internet” where he decried the effect of the...

Women in Philosophy: Is Aristotle the Best a Man Can Get?

by Jason Nethercut Many people praised Gillette’s recent advertisement for taking a stand against the worst manifestations of toxic or hegemonic masculinity. Others like Piers...

Syllabus Showcase: Torin Alter, Introduction to Philosophy

I teach at The University of Alabama. Most students who take Intro here have never before thought about philosophy, and that means I really...

Creating a Philosophical Culture of Engagement

There appears to be a growing consensus that philosophers should be doing more to connect with audiences outside academia. Whether it’s the slow war...

Iowa’s Carrie Figdor Is Awarded the APA Edinburgh Fellowship

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa) has been awarded the 2019–2020 Edinburgh Fellowship. The Edinburgh...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Neoliberalism’s Demons

Adam Kotsko teaches in the Shimer Great Books School of North Central College. He is the author, most recently, of The Prince of This...

Black Issues in Philosophy: The Present Absence of Africana Thought in Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas

by LaRose Parris Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas presents an inventive hemispheric analysis of late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American and Latin American...

The Conjuring of Ridiculous Things: Why I Value Mexican Philosophy

An occupational hazard of studying, writing about, and teaching Mexican philosophy is that there will always be someone who asks, “What makes it ‘Mexican’?”...

Surviving R. Kelly in Cultures of Enablement

An exposé typically indicts the character of its subject; “Surviving R. Kelly” indicts a public that knew of his character and did nothing about...

What Are You Reading…On Care

It was hard to watch news of last week’s polar vortex without feeling concerned for those in its path. While my area (slightly north...

APA Member Interview: Lynne Tirrell

by Sabrina D. MisirHiralall Lynne Tirrell is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, whose research centers on language and power. She has...