Yearly Archives: 2019

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...

A Neurophilosophy of global trans-cultural understanding

Editor's Note: This is the first in a three-part series exploring the relationship between neuroscience, philosophy, and society. Philosophy of culture has a long...

APA Member Interview: J. Spencer Atkins

J. Spencer Atkins is a graduate student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests include applied ethics (especially environmental ethics), metaphysics, and...

Developing a Course in Academic Ethics

For some decades philosophers have focused attention on the moral dimension of various professions. The activities of physicians, nurses, lawyers, business managers, journalists, and...

On the Political Responsibilities of Academics: An Arendtian Account

We find ourselves in an age when the academia is branded as increasingly disconnected from the lived experiences of the everyday citizen. Political discourse...

The Fantasy of Normalcy: Neoliberalism, the Family, and the New Right

by Cinzia Arruzza In a comment published in New York Magazine in 2018, Andrew Sullivan warns the LGBT movement against its leftist “excesses,” which run...

The Existential Quandary of the Millennial at Disney World

This summer, a mother posted on Facebook bemoaning the childless visitors of Disney World. “DW is for CHILDREN!!!!” she wrote. “People without children need...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Exile, Statelessness, and History

This edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is about Seyla Benhabib's Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah...

APA Member Interview: Jacob Andrews

Jacob J. Andrews is a PhD candidate at Loyola University Chicago. He received his MA from Marquette and MPhil from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven....

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Know-It-All Society

This edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is about Michael Patrick Lynch's book Know-it-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture. Michael Patrick...

Self-Love in the Academy Interview: Kristina Dukoski

Kristina Dukoski is an undergraduate philosophy student at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She has experience as a teaching assistant in both introductory philosophy...

Racism As Self-Love

In his Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Jean-Jacques Rousseau posits an important distinction between self-preservation (amour de soi) and self-love (amour-propre). As he...

On the Mystical Logic of Howard Thurman

by Darian Spearman I first would like to thank Dr. Anthony Neal for his work explicating the philosophical elements of Howard Thurman’s work. I had...

Nominations are open for APA leadership positions

The American Philosophical Association is now accepting nominations for APA leadership positions for terms beginning July 1, 2020. Visit the online nominations system. There will be...

APA Member Interview: Thomas Ames

Thomas Ames is an M.A. student in Philosophy at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He studies memory and the self, delusions, and motivation. He...