Yearly Archives: 2020

Questions of Belonging: Living and Growing as a Feminist Philosopher

The political struggle then becomes: to find a better way of answering questions, ways of questioning the questions, so that the world that makes...

The Daisy Ad and an Appeal to Fear

The following video is a campaign ad used by the Johnson campaign in the 1964 election bid against Barry Goldwater.  It was subsequently pulled...

On Protest and Hope as Social Inquiry

In 1948, Marxist philosopher C.L.R. James, addressing Black political militancy, insisted “that the independent Negro movement that we see today and which we see...

From Durban to the World

By Richard Pithouse  In much of Africa rain is taken as an auspicious sign when it falls, as a blessing, on a major event. But...

Ghosts of the Future: Behrens & Sanders

A group of artists live thoughtfully in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, working to become a part of the place. Their community becomes a source of philosophy.

Announcing the winners of the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize

The 2020 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize (books published in 2019) is awarded to Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University) for Necessity Lost: Modality and...

Syllabus Showcase: Introduction to Ethics Online, Matt Deaton

Disclaimer: Dr. Deaton is a series editor at the Blog of the APA. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and...

Public Philosophy Editors on Building the Field

Earlier this year, we asked for your questions for editors of public philosophy venues. We previously shared their answers to your questions on pitching...

Bat-Ami Bar On: In Memoriam

Teacher. Mentor. Friend. The fortunate among us would use these words to characterize our relationships with our dissertation directors. Working closely with them over...

Report from Richmond’s Monument Wars: Public Art, National Trauma, Being with the Dead

Richmond, VA, the former Confederate capital and major slave trading center, is an active experimental laboratory for removing and transforming old so-called “monuments,” creating...

Public Philosophy Editors on Working with Writers

Earlier this year, we asked for your questions for editors of public philosophy venues. Last week, we shared their answers to your questions on...

What Makes a Course Engaging?

The current challenges to creating engaging philosophy courses are obvious. The majority of classes remain fully or partially online, decreasing student motivation and preventing...

Congrats to the “Diversifying Analytic Theology” Prize Winner

We are delighted to announce the winner of our prize “Diversifying Analytic Theology,” sponsored by the APA’s Diversity and Inclusiveness fund and organized by...

Never Mind the Camus: Sartre’s Typhus is the Existential Plague Fiction We Need

Albert Camus has been having a good pandemic, sixty years after he died. Copies of The Plague have sold faster than publishers can print...

Genealogies of Philosophy: Susan Neiman (part II)

How should societies take collective responsibility for their historical crimes? Could Susan help me think about historical crime in philosophy?