Yearly Archives: 2020

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...

Teaching Ethics with Dungeons & Dragons

When I first started playing Dungeons and Dragons about five years ago, I immediately began dreaming of how I could use the game to...

Reflections on Being a First-Generation and/or Low-Income Graduate Student

“...for many students the process of upward mobility requires far more than perseverance: it also requires brutal decisions and painful sacrifices, threatens their relationships...

APA Member Interview: Kelley Annesley

Kelley  Annesley is a fifth-year graduate student at the University of Rochester, interested especially in epistemology and feminist takes on biomedical ethics. As a...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Metaphysics of Truth

This edition of the Recently Published Book Spotlight is on the metaphysical work of Douglas Edwards. Douglas Edwards, from Utica College, is the author...