Monthly Archives: August, 2019

APA Member Interview: Efren Alverio II

Efren Alverio II is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University in Melbourne.  His research focuses...

The Brawndo Fallacy or Circular Reasoning

This movie clip, from the movie Idiocracy (2006), presents a future version of Earth where the average intelligence has dropped. They cannot grow crops...

Indigenizing International Law, Part 2: Inverse Legal Anthropology

This three-part series, Indigenizing International Law, explores the encounter between Western and Indigenous jurisdictions, paying particular attention to the way in which post-colonial rule...

Monnica, The Patron Saint of Mothers of Disappointing Children (i.e. Philosophers)

by Patricia Grosse The first mention of St. Monnica in Stephen Greenblatt’s The New Yorker article “How St. Augustine Invented Sex” occurs in the second...

Student Reflection Snapshot: Kate Barnes

This series of Student Reflections is based on interviews conducted by Elyse Purcell and Sarah Horne during the APA's 2019 Central Division Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Kate Barnes...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Thinking Critically About Abortion

Kristina Grob is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina Sumter.   Nathan Nobis is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at...

A Suggestion to Improve Teaching

All of us who seek to teach well would welcome a simple way to enhance our classroom skills. Here’s a suggestion. When we write a...

Indigenizing International Law, Part 1: Learning to Learn from Below

This three-part series, Indigenizing International Law, explores the encounter between Western and Indigenous jurisdictions, paying particular attention to the way in which post-colonial rule...

APA Member Interview: William Albuquerqueis

William Albuquerque is currently a third-year graduate student at University of California San Diego, working within value theory – particularly issues related to moral responsibility. ...

Cultivating Philosophical Style

As a student in an analytic philosophy department in the ’70s and ’80s, I scarcely heard a word about the importance of style. I...

Student Reflection Snapshot: Heather Stewart

This series of Student Reflections is based on interviews conducted by Elyse Purcell and Sarah Horne during the APA's 2019 Central Division Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Heather Stewart is...

Auburn’s Gorodeisky and Marcus Win the 2020 Danto/ASA Prize

The American Philosophical Association and the American Society for Aesthetics are pleased to announce that Professors Keren Gorodeisky and Eric Marcus (Auburn University) have...

Philosophical Methodologies of Critical Race Theory

by Richard A. Jones Critical Race Theory (CRT), in its most influential form, was initiated at Harvard Law School by Derrick Bell’s early critique of...

APA Member Interview: Robert Barnard

Robert Barnard is Professor of Philosophy at The University of Mississippi. He joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi about twenty years ago...

Women in Philosophy: Cramblett, Race, Disability, and Liberatory Politics

by Desiree Valentine In October of 2014, news outlets began reporting on a case of a lesbian couple suing a sperm bank for receiving the...