Yearly Archives: 2019

Black Issues in Philosophy: The Day Botswana Stopped Being an African Country

by Olúfẹmi Táíwò On June 11, this year, the Lobatse High Court in Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, returned a verdict in an appeal case that reverberated...

APA Member Interview: Gretchen Ellefson

Gretchen Ellefson is currently finishing up her PhD at Northwestern University, and will be starting a new position as an Assistant Professor in the...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Wind and Solar Calendar

What would it be to create books where the text conveys the texture of coming to know a person by acquaintance?

Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher: Dealing with Unwelcome or Inappropriate Attention

The Women in Philosophy series is running a mini-series called “Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher.” The first installment was posted last August, the second in December, and the...

Syllabus Showcase: Emma McClure, Existentialism

Existentialism asks: how do you live a meaningful life? This is what makes Existentialism so fascinating to undergraduates — particularly 18-year-olds transitioning into independent...

Reflections on James Agee and the Good Life

What is the essence of a good life? Contemporary philosophers have offered a variety of answers, including “active engagement in projects of worth,” (Susan...

Philosophy with Children and the Proprioception of Thinking

Proprioception is usually used in reference to body movement and the self-perception of body movement. Proprius in Latin means “one’s own,” or “self.” It refers...

APA Member Interview: Vida Yao

Vida Yao is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rice University. She received her Ph.D. at UNC Chapel Hill in 2016 and did her undergraduate...

2019 Lebowitz Prize Awarded to Philosophers Bratman and Gilbert

The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Phi Beta Kappa Society (PBK) are pleased to announce that Dr. Michael E. Bratman (ΦBK, Haverford), the...

Monty Python Witch Trial: Validity, Soundness, and the Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle

In the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), there is a scene involving a Witch Burning Trial that I use in my critical thinking...

Student Reflection Snapshot: Savannah Pearlman

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. Savannah Pearlman received her...

The Question of Revolutionary Responsibility and Erica Burman’s Fanon, Education, Action

by Nigel Gibson What I want to present here is a part of a larger ongoing discussion of the centrality of Frantz Fanon’s work as...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Cunning of Imagination

Eugene Garver Ph.D.'s is from the Committee for the Analysis of Ideas and the Study of Methods at The University of Chicago. Since then,...

APA Member Interview: Annette Martin

Annette Martin is a PhD candidate in philosophy at New York University. She works in social philosophy, epistemology, and philosophy of race, and her...

We Have a Crisis in U.S. Higher Education

The teaching structure of higher education has altered drastically in the past two decades and those in power do not want to talk about...