Monthly Archives: April, 2021

An Education that Works for Students: Paul Blaschko

Beginning from their perspective, design courses for students to live a good life. Now you've an accessible way into philosophy.

APA Member Interview: Bryan Chambliss

Bryan Chambliss is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Susquehanna University. He received his PhD from the University of Arizona, where he...

The Point is to Change the World

“The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways,” he famously said. “The point, however, is to change it.” Karl Marx penned these...

It’s Time to Talk about Women’s Submission

As a French person, I grew up thinking that philosophy was for everyone. My parents didn’t go to college, but I grew up seeing Foucault,...

He is the Park Ranger, she is the Other: gender in Parks and Recreation

This clip from Parks and Recreation plays on stereotypes of femininity and can be used to explore the concept of the Other in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex."

Antiblackness and Philosophical Duplicity

The black woman philosopher Adrian Piper had an unfortunate run-in with Wilfred Van Orman Quine on her first day as a Harvard graduate student....

APA Member Interview: Britta Clark

Britta Clark is a third-year PhD student at Harvard University. She received a BA in Environmental Studies and Philosophy from Bates College, and an...

Academic Boycott: A Qualified Defense

Recent decades have seen the open letter and the call to boycott installed as regular fixtures of academic life. Each passing quarter (or so)...

Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy & Film, Marc A. Joseph

The inspiration for a class on philosophy and film came to me after watching (not for the first time) Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, and thinking,...

American Ecstatics: A Surfacing

We have to make room for societies that are not colonial. American philosophy has not come to terms with this task. It is more than theoretical.

APA Member Interview: César Cabezas

César Cabezas is the ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy of Race at Temple University. Prior to Temple, he completed his PhD in philosophy...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Club Advisor: Matthew Meyer The Philosophy Club of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire began, in its current iteration,  in the Fall of 2015. The club...

Immigration, Samaritan Duties, and Future Generations

One reason that immigrants relocate to new countries is because they want their children, grandchildren, and so on, to lead better lives than they...

Recently Published Book: Banshee and the Sperm Whale

Jake Camp is a writer and community college philosophy professor who lives in Colorado with his sons.  He talked with Heidi Schmidt about his...

APA Member Interview: Isabel Canfield

Isabel Canfield is a Ph.D. student at the University of Notre Dame. Her central interests are in ethics, moral philosophy, and action theory. Isabel...