Monthly Archives: March, 2020

Virus: all that is solid melts into air

There is a debate within the social sciences about whether it is easier to ascertain the truthfulness and quality of a society’s institutions under normal daily circumstances...

Statement on Equity and Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The following is a statement from the Advisory Board of Tenure for the Common Good regarding contingent faculty. The COVID-19 pandemic presents significant...

APA Member Interview: Annette Zimmermann

Annette Zimmermann is a political philosopher. Annette is currently a postdoc at Princeton University, working on the ethics of algorithmic decision-making, machine learning, and...

Across the Great Divide: Father and Daughter Philosophers

Last October, I presented a paper at an Ethics conference focused on African Americans and justice. I was pleased to see an older gentleman...

A Neurophilosophical paradigm for a new Enlightenment

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a three-part series exploring the relationship between neuroscience, philosophy, and society. The first part can be found...

Fighting with UC Santa Cruz for a Cost of Living Adjustment: An interview with Yulia Gilich

In the wake of the recent firings of 54 graduate students by UC Santa Cruz following their wildcat strike, the Blog of the APA...

APA Member Interview: Carolina Flores

Carolina Flores is a PhD candidate at Rutgers, advised by Liz Camp and Susanna Schellenberg. She works primarily at the intersection of philosophy of...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility

Thius edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is on the work of Michelle Ciurria. Michelle Ciurria is the author of An Intersectional Feminist...

Teaching Philosophy With Podcasts: A Few Modest Proposals

Recent years have seen an increasing pressure on university teachers to include new media in their teaching practices. I recently had a conversation with...

Review of Nathalie Etoke’s Melancholia Africana

Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition is a book about possibility. It is about reciprocity—about becoming. But it is also about...

A Foundation for Online Teaching and Learning

Given the current pandemic with the coronavirus, several institutions are transitioning to remote learning for the remainder of the semester.  Educators and students who...

APA Member Interview: Dana Grabelsky

Dana Grabelsky is a fourth-year PhD student at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She received her BA in philosophy at Northwestern University and her MA...

Cancellation of the 2020 APA Pacific Division Meeting

As indicated in a notice circulated on March 9, the APA leadership has been closely monitoring developments related to the global outbreak of coronavirus...

Vindicating Schopenhauer: Undoing misunderstandings of his metaphysics

Arthur Schopenhauer today is best known for his psychology, ethics, aesthetics and prose style. When it comes to metaphysics, however, his philosophy has been considered “so obviously...

Worlds, Ideals, and Solidarity: A Feminist Primer

“Everything that forces itself into the world is subject to the principle of particularization.” - G. W. F. Hegel To “change the world”—to engage in responsible...