Yearly Archives: 2019

Beyond Comfortable and Uncomfortable

Regardless of your feelings about Nietzsche, you have to concede that his On the Genealogy of Morals was a novel and refreshing approach to...

APA Member Interview: Sahar Joakim

Sahar Joakim is a 27-year-old doctoral candidate at Saint Louis University writing in epistemology under John Greco. She enjoys poetry, music, and the outdoors but spends...

Horrific Thoughts: Incorporating Student Film-Making in a Course on Horror and Philosophy

Why do horror fans like to be scared?  What does horror teach us about the meaning of life (and death)?  Is the human condition...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: How We Became Our Data

Colin Koopman is in the Philosophy Department at the University of Oregon, where he is also Director of New Media & Culture.  His articles...

Syllabus Showcase: Tziporah Kasachkoff, Sexual Morality

This course came about as a result of my being asked to choose a topic and develop a course for a Philosophy seminar to...

The Culture of Assessment

Not a day passes without an invitation to assess some service, usually by filling out a form, with scales from 1 to 5 to...

Black Issues in Philosophy: Black Women Philosophers Conference at the CUNY-Graduate Center

by Heather Muraviov and Taylor Tate The Black Women Philosophers Conference took place last month on March 15th and 16th, 2019 and was hosted by...

What Are You Reading…On Justice

In the wake of the Muller report, I have seen many debates about what constitutes “obstruction of justice.” Some, like our Attorney General, argue...

APA Member Interview: Kristina Dukoski

Kristina Dukoski is a 22-year-old soon-to-be graduate of the University of Toronto where she is currently enrolled in a specialist philosophy program. She is...

Can We Reproduce The Woolly Mammoth?

Note: This essay is based on a paper given at the 2019 Eastern APA in New York City. Media reporters often announce that we are...

Women in Philosophy: The Limits of Consent in Sexual Ethics

by Ellie Anderson When it comes to sex, public discourse today revolves around consent. ‘Affirmative’ consent, ‘enthusiastic’ consent, and “Yes means yes!” movements abound. Consent...

Philosophers on Medicine Podcast: Philosophy Outside Academia

It is no revelation that there is philosophy in medicine. Bioethics contains ethics, and bioethics is a booming enterprise. But what about metaphysics, epistemology,...

Talking Teaching: Building an Online Community

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

Documenting the Impact and Reach of the NEH

In 2017, in response to the Trump administration’s threat to cut funding to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Alliance launched...

How Do You Approach Public Philosophy?

Drawing on early childhood education, I developed a community discussion group with an emergent inquiry in order to practice autonomy and sympathy. It fostered high quality relationships between the university and the city.