Monthly Archives: April, 2019

Sacred and Profane Love Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

Let me begin by saying something about how the Sacred and Profane Love podcast came to be and what its future is. My podcast began...

Syllabus Showcase: Ruth Boeker, The Human Mind in Early Modern Philosophy

What is the relation between my mind and my body? Does my mind always think? What is a person? What makes me the same...

How John Rawls Could Have Predicted the Unhappiness of Facebook Users

According to Facebook’s creation myth, as told by Aaron Sorkin’s film The Social Network and Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires, the idea for the...

Socrates: The Hero of Hemlock?

Ask a philosopher to name a superhero. The response won’t be the famous brain in a vat. The likely response will be the centerpiece...

Social Justice Does Not Always Come from the Court Room: An Interview with Sarah Deer

by Gregory Doukas Sarah Deer is a professor of law at William Mitchell College in Minnesota and a proud Mvskoke woman. Her life as a...

Want More Philosophy of X on the APA Meeting Programs? Here’s the Secret

The three APA meetings encourage philosophers to engage one another in a truly generalist setting: the meeting programs offer papers, symposia, and commentary in...

What Are You Reading…On Perception

There’s a lot going on in the act of perception. In addition to the actual data we receive from the external world, there are...