Yearly Archives: 2020

Challenges for Women in Online Philosophy: Performativity and Clout

Despite believing in the value of online philosophy, I myself have limited philosophical engagements online. Online philosophy is a vast terrain, spanning from philosophy...

Boredom and Injustice

The emotional price of being poor: How boredom harms those who are less affluent It seizes us at home or at work, in open...

No Online, Ed-Tech Tool Will Save The Fall Semester

The fall semester promises to change the game in education.  With many colleges and universities going either completely or partially online, the gates have...

APA Member Interview: Janella Baxter

Janella Baxter is a philosopher of science. Her work focuses on epistemological issues in experimental areas of biology. She is beginning to branch out...

Time Will Tell: An Interview with Boram Jeong

Boram Jeong is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver, U.S. She received her PhD from Duquesne University and Université...

Syllabus Showcase: Apologetical Ethics, Mark Coppenger

My doctoral seminar in Apologetical Ethics grew out of a commissioned book I did for B&H, Moral Apologetics for Contemporary Christians: Pushing Back Against Cultural...

Nominations are open for APA leadership positions

The American Philosophical Association is now accepting nominations for APA leadership positions for terms beginning July 1, 2021. Visit the online nominations system. There will be...

A Happy Immoralist: The Case of Richard Rich

A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s 1960 play about Sir Thomas More, is usually interpreted as a defense of living and dying in...

“Planetarity,” “Planetarism,” and the Interpersonal

How can we approach the “planetary” in such a way that everyone is part of the story?

Skepticism’s Cure for the Plague of Mind

This post is part two of a two-part series on skepticism and ethics in the Women in Philosophy series. The first part can be...

Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy of Race, Eric Bayruns García

I will teach two sections of this philosophy of race course at California State University, San Bernardino this coming Fall 2020 semester. I have...

The Warped Epistemology of Conspiracy Theories

The novel coronavirus pandemic has spawned numerous conspiracy theories, sometimes replicating faster than the virus itself. Some people have rumored that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered...

Time Will Tell: An Interview with Kristie Miller

This is the second post in the Time Will Tell series. You can read the first post here, or see all the posts in...

APA Member Interview: Marcus Wang

Marcus Wang is pursuing his M.A. in Interdisciplinary Humanities (Philosophy Specialization) at Trinity Western University in Vancouver, Canada. Marcus comes from Beijing, China and...

Virtual Reading Rooms: A New Way to Read

The Blog of the APA is pleased to announce that we are partnering with Exact Editions and several academic publishers to make philosophy books...