Monthly Archives: March, 2019

APA Member Interview: Johannes Abel

Johannes Abel studied Philosophy, English, and Educational Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) and worked as a high school teacher before starting to work full-time...

Philosophers and Climate Change

Philosophers are uniquely positioned to help stop the worst effects of climate change. Most teachers have the ear of large numbers of students, whose...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Clinical trials and the African person

Ike Iyioke has multidisciplinary degrees/certificates in philosophy, international relations, and journalism. He also has transdisciplinary research/teaching interests in ethics of healthcare, environmental health, and multicultural...

Women in Philosophy: Report on Black Women Philosophers Conference

by Carol Moeller The Black Women Philosophers Conference, March 15-16, 2019, at CUNY Graduate Center, sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY Grad Center Philosophy Program,...

How to Help Your Child Be A Better Learner

What causes a child to be a good learner? First, the role of individual personality when it comes to readiness to study and disposition to...

Within the Shadow of Monuments

Public debate over memorials tends to belie their complexity. We need to consider them from all angles. An instant is sufficient to snap the chains;...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Can Philosophy Survive the Neoliberal Academy?

Note: This piece is adapted from Brandon Absher's presentation at the Eastern APA 2019, entitled "The Neoliberal University and What This Means to Society" In...

The Possible World Defense: Why Our Current Legal Thinking about Entrapment is Philosophically Suspect

I was a special agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation before making a career change to academic philosophy. During my time at the...

Gualtiero Piccinini has won the 2018 Barwise Prize

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri–St. Louis) has been selected by the APA committee on...

Labels of Love Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

Over the course of 2017, I made ten episodes of a podcast called Labels Of Love under the aegis of my Metaphysics of Love...

Syllabus Showcase: Valia Allori, Philosophy of Physics

I teach at Northern Illinois University, in Dekalb Il, USA, where we have a Bachelor and a Master program in Philosophy. Some of the...

Finding the Chicken of the Woods: The World of Fungi

Editor’s Note: This piece was the runner up of the APA Blog’s first Public Philosophy Award for Undergraduates. What would it be like to be a...

On Black Pain/Black Liberation and the Rise of Fallism

by Kayum Ahmed Fallism is an attempt to make sense of the experiences of Black people in a white, liberal university, through decolonial theories centered...

What Are You Reading…On Feminism

It’s been an uneven week for women’s issues. On the negative side, you had Tucker Carlson’s misogynistic comments and prominent women being featured in...

APA Member Interview: Curt Ball

Curt Ball is the President of Fundamental Labor Strategies®, Inc.  He graduated with a BA from Franklin and Marshall College in 1985 earning the...