Monthly Archives: July, 2020

Fatphobia, Women, and COVID-19

As of early July 2020, Googling “coronavirus obesity” brings up about 178 million results. For perspective, that’s 64 million more than “coronavirus chronic kidney...

Kierkegaard’s Silence on Slavery

Kierkegaard never mentions slavery. Or almost never. The subject gets two pages in a corpus that spans thousands. This silence is surprising given how...

The Divine Mechanism: A Thought Experiment on Faith and Obedience

This video asks students consider the philosophical relationship between justified belief, faith, and obedience.

What Is Policing For?

In the weeks since police officers killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, mass uprisings—and a violent, uncompromising response from police departments across the country—have...

Three Ways of Diversifying a Philosophy Syllabus

The current climate of soul-searching about race and racism has led to a wave of reactions among faculty at many universities.  Numerous departments of...

A Neurophilosophy of “Sustainable Neurochemical Gratification” and the Meaning of Existence

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

Hearing Loss and Face Coverings

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

Student Snapshot: Sarah Horne

Sarah graduated SUNY Oneonta in 2019 with a dual degree in History and Philosophy. One of her fondest memories from college was interning with...

Diversifying Tenure-Line Faculty

This is the third in a several part series discussing ways to improve diversity in philosophy departments. The other pieces can be found here. My...

What Should Accommodations for Chronic Illness Look Like While We’re Online and After We Return to “Normal”?

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

Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy and Film, Katheryn Doran

In 2016 Hamilton College, a small liberal arts college in central NYS where I work passed an unusual (and possibly even unique) requirement: students...

“Is America Possible?”: Protest, Pandemic, and Planetary Possibility

This is a revised version of a June 13, 2020 lecture delivered at the Global Center for Advanced Studies. The title of this article announces...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: How Propaganda Became Public Relations

This edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is about Cory Wimberly's How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault and the Corporate Government of the...

Metaphysics and Woo: An outsider’s perspective on academic philosophy’s social role

As someone who has published a number of books on the nature of life and reality, I regularly receive emails from ordinary members of...

APA Member Interview: Kian Mintz-Woo

Kian Mintz-Woo is a moral philosopher; his work focuses on the applied ethics in climate change and health but also includes topics in metaethics...