Yearly Archives: 2019

MAP Eastern APA Session: Skill-Building & Improving the Profession

What kinds of department initiatives can grad students and faculty easily put on to improve climate, help students develop their skills as philosophers and...

The Ethical Failures Behind the Boeing Disasters

Two Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes crashed shortly after takeoff, on October 28, 2018 near Jakarta, Indonesia and March 10, 2019, near Addis Ababa,...

APA Member Interview: Daniel Collette

Daniel Collette is a visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University  and received his Ph.D. at the University of South Florida under Roger Ariew. He...

A Neuro-Philosophy of Human Nature: Emotional Amoral Egoism and the Five Motivators of Humankind

In 1893, at an event in Oxford, biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (and staunch supporter of Darwin’s ideas – support which earned him the nickname...

Early Career Research Spotlight: Brian Berkey

This edition of the Early Career Research Spotlight focuses on the work of Brian Berkey. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of...

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...

APA Member Interview: Johannes Abel

Johannes Abel studied Philosophy, English, and Educational Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) and worked as a high school teacher before starting to work full-time...

Philosophers and Climate Change

Philosophers are uniquely positioned to help stop the worst effects of climate change. Most teachers have the ear of large numbers of students, whose...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Clinical trials and the African person

Ike Iyioke has multidisciplinary degrees/certificates in philosophy, international relations, and journalism. He also has transdisciplinary research/teaching interests in ethics of healthcare, environmental health, and multicultural...