Monthly Archives: February, 2021

Time, Beauty, and Spirit in Kamëntšá Culture: A Brief Review

For someone like me who has research interest in myth and religion, Juan Alejandro Chindoy’s A Decolonial Philosophy of Indigenous Colombia contains wonderful analyses...

Syllabus Showcase: News & Knowing, Justin McBrayer

This is a course that focuses on the fake news epidemic in a way that non-philosophy majors can understand and appreciate.  It could function...

Enjoy a book on Environmental Ethics

As part of the Blog of the APA‘s partnership with Exact Editions, we are offering one new book by Hackett Press in its entirety...

A Philosophy of Sedition?

Shadi Bartsch, professor of Classics at the University of Chicago called it “weird.” "It" here refers to an excerpt from a New York Times...

What Makes a Course Resilient?

Like universities all across the country, mine announced, mid-semester in the spring of 2020, that we’d all be transitioning to online learning in less...

Rafael Vizcaíno Wins the 2020 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce Rafael Vizcaíno (DePaul University) has been awarded the 2020 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought for...

How do you bring candidates “to campus” during the COVID-19 pandemic? Part 1

The pandemic has put a halt to a lot of hiring in the academy.  Of course, higher education is not the only sector facing...

Relational Egalitarianism is Not about Egalitarian Relationships

That equality is an essential part of justice - or even that justice just is some kind of equality - has been central to...

The Joseph Saga: Turnabouts, Trade-Offs, and Transience

         Literary works often stimulate philosophical reflection. Such is the case with the Biblical account of the life of Joseph as related in the final chapters...