Monthly Archives: January, 2020

APA Member Interview: Kyle J. Barbour

Kyle J. Barbour is a PhD student at the University of Guelph, Canada. He received his M.A. from Memorial University of Newfoundland and wrote...

Vulnerability, Freedom, and Political Transformation

by Laura McMahon On January 9, 1961 in Athens, Georgia, 19-year-old Charlayne Hunter-Gault and 19-year-old Hamilton Holmes became the first African American students to enroll at the University...

Michael Scott and Standpoint Epistemology

In this video, Michael Scott reveals his utter ignorance about the structure of the socialworld in a diversity training in The Office’s second episode,...

A Good Place for Philosophy?

At the beginning of the 21st century, the philosophical discourse concerning good and evil seems to be subsumed into three major areas; meta-ethics which...

Study the Humanities: Articulating Career Pathways

Commentators have offered a variety of explanations for the widely observed decline in humanities majors and enrollments. Evidence suggests the primary cause is a dramatic reordering of student priorities away...

APA Member Interview: Christopher A. Riddle

Christopher A. Riddle is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utica College, where he is also the Director of the Applied Ethics Institute. He works in...

Prize Competition: Feminist analytic theology 

Thanks to funding from the American Philosophical Association’s Diversity and Inclusiveness Fund, the editors of the Journal of Analytic Theology are pleased to announce...

Syllabus Showcase: Megan Fritts, Philosophy in American Politics

My program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison occasionally accepts proposals for “special topics” philosophy classes — if you are a graduate student instructor and...

Interview with Mabogo P. More

Editor’s note:  Professor More uses “black” and “Black” in this interview.  He uses the former when he is speaking specifically to the racial term as ordinarily...

APA Member Interview: Eugene Kelly

Eugene Kelly has been Professor of Philosophy at the New York Institute of Technology for forty years. He received his Ph.D. from New York...

Fashion and Feminism

by Amie Leigh Zimmer Philosophers and feminists have always agreed on one thing: fashion is not a topic that merits serious philosophical consideration. Karen Hanson...

Teachers Assemble: Sample Lesson Plan for Philosophy in High School English

In a recent article on this blog, I outlined both the dearth of online resources to help middle and high school educators bring philosophy...

APA Member Interview: Emma Atherton

Emma Atherton is a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT), originally from Australia. (She did undergrad and honors at Melbourne University). She...

The Mesoamerican Philosophy Renaissance

500 years after the conquistadors began burning books written by the original philosophers of Mexico and Guatemala, America’s classical thinking now rise like a...

Teachers Assemble: The Case for High School Philosophy Across Disciplines

Of all the major disciplines, philosophy is the least likely to be taught in American primary or secondary schools, either as a core subject...