Monthly Archives: October, 2019

Syllabus Showcase: Nick Byrd, Introduction to Philosophy

I am teaching at Florida State University. Introduction to Philosophy is currently my favorite course. This is many students' first exposure to academic philosophy....

Three Reasons Why We Should Not Request Letters of Recommendation for Job Applications

A standard element for a job application for a philosophy tenure-track position is three (or more) letters of recommendation, requested up front. Just glancing...

Henchpersons and the Problem of Induction

The Venture Brothers, a long-running Cartoon Network series, often plays on tropes and themes common in action shows and comics. In the clip, from...

APA Member Interview: Jaime Edwards

Jaime Edwards is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Norbert College. He completed his PhD at the University of Chicago in 2018....

Racism’s Guts? The Physiology of Oppression

by Shannon Sullivan Can a person’s belief in racial hierarchy—for example, that white people are superior to Black people—be embodied in their gut? I wondered...

A New Design for the APA Blog

You may have noticed that we have launched a new design for the APA Blog!  There are lots of great new features, and here we'd...

Syllabus Showcase: Alexandra Bradner, Justice and Care, A Community-based Learning Syllabus

For at least a decade, institutions have been encouraging faculty members to adopt high-impact educational practices in the undergraduate classroom. We are to move...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Hannah Arendt on Hong Kong’s Violence

Over the past summer, Hong Kong underwent one of its most pronounced political conflicts in its history. Opposition that was originally directed towards a...

APA Member Interview: Ashli Anda

Ashli Anda is a third year PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research focuses on the justification of proportionality...

Talking Teaching: Teaching Philosophic Question-Asking

by Stephen Bloch-Schulman This post developed from a Blog Contributor who presented for the Talking Teaching discussion series hosted by the APA Committee on Teaching. On...

Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog

by Lewis R. Gordon Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (Columbia UP, 2018) addresses a fundamental feature of racism—namely, the idea of the...