Yearly Archives: 2020

Call for applications: 2021–2022 Edinburgh Fellowship

The APA sponsors one visiting research fellowship per year at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh....

Genealogies of Philosophy: Susan Neiman (part I)

We interviewed Susan Neiman, high school drop out and Harvard grad, about her path to becoming a public intellectual.

APA Member Interview: Aaron Bentley

Aaron Bentley grew up in a very small town in California. Growing up there, he had no exposure to philosophy. He then attended UC...

How Inclusive and Accessible Is Your Statement on Inclusion and Accessibility?

As I was preparing for this new semester, I found myself copying and pasting the ‘Statement on Inclusion and Accessibility’ from my previous syllabi....

THE INHERITED SHADE OF MY SKIN

For George Floyd By Chandramohan S. I join an entourage into the past wide-eyed, curious, like a child checking himself in the mirror ascertaining how shiny his skin could get in...

My Adventure with Trauma-Informed Gameful Pedagogy

“Dr. T! You can’t do that! I totally buzzed in first for the Plotinus question!” I’m standing in one of my campus’s largest auditoriums...

APA Member Interview: Rowan Bell

Rowan Bell is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Syracuse University, where they serve as President of the Philosophy Graduate Student Organization. They work...

The Interview from Hell and the Ad Hominem Fallacy

This video shows an interview of Reza Aslan by Fox News host Lauren Green that demonstrates the Ad Hominem Fallacy.

Entropy and the Elderly in the Neoliberal Age

In the September 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine, Andrew Cockburn writes about the appalling negligence shown toward the elderly in American nursing homes. The...

Remote Synchronous Learning: Some Thoughts

Like most of you, I had not taught a synchronous online class before 2020, and, perhaps, I never will again after 2021. That said,...

Enjoy Eight New Books on White Privilege, Plotinus, and More

As part of the Blog of the APA‘s partnership with Exact Editions, we are offering eight new books in their entirety for readers to...

Into Philosophy

Introducing a "series of mini-series" wherein "stories exceed ideas"

APA Member Interview: David Thorstad

David Thorstad is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute, Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellow at Kellogg College. His research focuses...

Syllabus Showcase: Religions of the World, Barbara Brown Taylor

Piedmont College is a private, four-year, church-related, liberal arts college in rural northeast Georgia that will become Piedmont University in 2021, almost 125 years...

Our Age of Institutional Decadence

By 555 A.D. Emperor Justinian I was close to reconquering most of the territories in Italy and North Africa lost 100 years earlier when...