Yearly Archives: 2020

Viral Colonization

Our time is one of multiple pandemics. I propose the term “viral colonization” to understand some of the dynamics that we are currently living. During...

Philosophy and Civilization: An Interview with Rupert Read, Spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion

Philosopher Rupert Read is active in the climate change movement Extinction Rebellion, and has recently released a new book about his work there. He...

APA Member Interview: Samuel Bennett

Samuel Bennett is a PhD Candidate in the Philosophy Department at Purdue University working on ancient Greek philosophy and virtue ethics. In his spare...

Think Like a Feminist

Something has changed. Only a few years ago, we found ourselves collectively able to live with those who would explain away the “locker-room talk” of...

The Ethics of Deep Learning AI and the Epistemic Opacity Dilemma

Even the weak kind of artificial intelligence that often controls our on-line shopping recommendations presents ethical implications and challenges. Ethical problems with more traditional...

Make a Welcome Vid for Your Online Philosophy Class

In the 2020s, text-based online classes simply won’t do. Students expect to see and hear their professors. You can find tips on how to...

Parenting in a Pandemic

I am a graduate student in coursework, and I am also the parent of a 2-year-old. With offices and daycares closed due to COVID-19,...

A Neurophilosophy of Autonomous Weapons and Warfare

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

Ask the Public Philosophy Editors

The APA Committee on Public Philosophy is partnering with the Blog of the APA to publish a series on how to do public philosophy. For...

APA Member Interview: Ben Birkenstock

Ben Birkenstock is completing his MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities in the philosophy stream at Trinity Western University in Vancouver, Canada. Ben was born in...

Overcoming Elite Interests in Service of Diversity

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

Rallying Support for the Humanities Sector during the COVID-19 Crisis

As museums, libraries, scholarly societies, colleges, universities, and other humanities organizations shut down in mid-March due to COVID-19, we, at the National Humanities Alliance,...

Even More Burdens for Graduate Teaching Assistants?

This fall, I’ll be instructing a graduate level course on teaching for first-time TAs in the Philosophy Department of the University of Illinois at...

Syllabus Showcase: American Philosophy, 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...

We All Fall Down

“What I forget is better than whatever they remember.”— Yasiin Bey (2016) The police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade, to name...