Yearly Archives: 2020

Valuing Black Lives

The Blog of the APA considers diversity and inclusion vital to our society and profession. The recent protests sweeping the USA and the globe...

Toward Creolizing Schooling

The project of creolizing education emerged from concerns with the failures of U.S. public schooling as a public good. Many argue and assume that...

Duties to Graduate Workers: Labor Protections in the Era of 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...

Why You Should Self-Archive and How to Do It

Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. New York Public Library research room (via Wikimedia Commons) I earned my PhD in 2015. While I...

Margaret Baxley: What is it like to be a philosopher?

This is an excerpt from an interview with Margaret Baxley.  In this interview, Anne Margaret Baxley talks about growing up Methodist in Macon, Georgia,...

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Nearly Capsized Me

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...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Medical Sexism

This edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is about Jill Delston's book Medical Sexism: Contraception Access, Reproductive Medicine, and Health Care. Jill B....

‘Black Lives Matter’ as Identity Politics and Class Struggle

“Daddy changed the world!” Gigi Floyd, daughter of George Floyd, smiled broadly as she shouted this out loud at a Black Lives Matter protest...

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...