Monthly Archives: June, 2020

Direct TV and the Slippery Slope Fallacy

This video is a compilation of amusing Direct TV commercials which can be used to demonstrate the slippery slope fallacy.

Defending a Dissertation During COVID-19

This post is a part of The COVID-Chronicles series. This series is dedicated to giving voice to graduate student experiences and needs during the...

The untold history of India’s vital atheist philosophy

Rationality, skepticism, and atheism have been central parts of Indian thinking for 2,700 years. Contrary to common belief, the hallmark of India's philosophy is...

A Neurophilosophy of Divisive Politics, Inequality and Disempowerment

This is post five in a short-term series by Prof Nayef Al-Rodhan titled “Neurophilosophy of Governance, Power and Transformative Innovations.” This series provides neurophilosophical...

Student Snapshot: Emerson Bodde

Emerson Bodde is a PhD student in the philosophy program at Vanderbilt University. His research interests mainly revolve around the history of political philosophy...

Diversity in Philosophy Departments: Introduction

This is the first in a several part series discussing ways to improve diversity in philosophy departments. The other parts can be found here. At...

Doing Trans Philosophy as Public Philosophy

While doing research on trans-inclusive policies at the Five Colleges in Massachusetts, one of us (Perry Zurn) stumbled across a document referencing an old...

Why and How to Share Collective Feedback

One way to reclaim some benefits of live, in-person discussion in your online philosophy class is to share weekly “collective feedback” posts. Rather than...

After The Pandemic

As author of this piece and incoming editor-in-chief of the APA Blog, I regret the significant pain this piece caused, and especially the former...

The Forefront of Research: Introducing the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion

This edition of The Forefront of Research interviews Cecilea Mun about the recently created Journal of the Philosophy of Emotion. Cecilea Mun is the...

Why We Forget

We live in a country whose population has not acquired the habit of taking historical memory seriously…. But histories never leave us for another...

Philosophy in the Contemporary World: Tiger King, Charismatic Megafauna, and the Problem of Looking

Confession: I have not watched Tiger King.  At first glance this makes me an odd fit for writing about Tiger King. Afterall, with 64...

The Lives that Matter in the Prevailing Social Order

George Floyd’s murder at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department has ignited nationwide protests against police violence. Within these protests, the movement for...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry

This edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is an essay by author John Gunnell about his most recent work, Conventional Realism and Political...

Student Snapshot: Cappagnia-Lynne Chase

Cappagnia-Lynne Chase is an Oneonta native. She is majoring in Theatre and minoring in both dance and philosophy at SUNY Oneonta. She is also...