Monthly Archives: July, 2020

APA Member Interview: Shawn Simpson

Shawn Simpson is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York.  His dissertation focuses on communication, its evolution, and...

Racist Research Must Be Named, But Often Allowed

In a recent open letter, many Princeton faculty members call on the university to acknowledge the inadequacy of our efforts toward anti-racism up to now,...

Engendering Algorithmic Oppressions

In 2019, CNN and other news services reported that the New York Department of Financial Services was investigating Apple Card for gender bias because...

Final call for nominations: 2020 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching

The nomination deadline for the 2020 Prize for Excellence in Philosophy Teaching is just three days away. Don’t miss your chance to submit a...

An Asynchronous Student Philosophy Conference

In the fall of 2019, before the global pandemic took hold, we, Greg Stoutenburg (York College Pennsylvania - YCP) Kristopher Phillips (Southern Utah University...

APA Member Interview: Sabrina D. MisirHiralall

Dr. Sabrina D. MisirHiralall is an editor at the Blog of the APA who currently teaches philosophy, religion, and education courses solely online for...

Deep Thoughts with Short Words

During the brief window between the end of the COVID-19-spring semester, and the upheaval sparked by the brutal killing of George Floyd, quarantined philosophers...

How Do we Diversify Philosophy? Pluralism Rather than Inclusivism

The overwhelming “whiteness” of philosophy has been discussed by many, and has continued to be an ongoing problem in our field. In recent years, there...

Syllabus Showcase: Critical Thinking, Nathan Eric Dickman

I am now at the University of the Ozarks (AR) as an Assistant Professor of philosophy, transitioning from Young Harris College (GA) as an...

Richard Rorty, Cancel Culture, Political Fallibilism, and Achieving Our Country

Richard Rorty’s 1998 book Achieving Our Country enjoyed a burst of attention after the 2016 elections. As law professor Lisa Kerr first observed, Rorty...

Decolonial Philosopher/Theorist María Lugones, Now Among the Ancestors

I lit a candle in memory of María Lugones, who joined the ancestors last week on July 14th.  She is correctly memorialized as a...

Looking Back to Look Forward: Disability, Philosophers, and Activism

Philosophers have already been publicly engaged around COVID-19 in many ways through podcasts and writings aimed at broad audiences.  This is not surprising, given...

Student Snapshot: Fernando Alvear

Fernando Alvear is a Philosophy PhD student at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, Missouri. He mainly works on issues at the intersection of Epistemology and...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The World after the End of the World

This edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is about Kas Saghafi's The World at the End of the World: A Spectro-poetics (SUNY, 2020)....

How Can I Be a Philosopher in a Non-Academic Career? (Part 2)

Answers from Matthew Barrett, PhD, Consultant in the Life-Sciences Industry Matthew Barrett (photo right) earned a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University, and is...