Monthly Archives: June, 2021

Sappho of Lesbos was a Lover of Wisdom, But What Kind?

Ancient Greek poet and songstress, Sappho of Lesbos, is best known for her homoerotic verse.  Sappho didn’t argue about serious philosophical topics like ethics...

What to Do about Your Website? Online Options for Philosophy Job-Seekers

Along with application materials, individual websites are an opportunity for philosophers to communicate research as well as a chance to convey suitability as a...

Policing and Criminal Oppression

One of the unfortunate realities of working on philosophy of crime and punishment in the United States is that there are always new instances...

A Little Place to Oppose Insecurity in the World

What constitutes a moral relationship to knowledge? And what do our institutions have to be like to create the grounds for such a relationship?

APA Member Interview: Cory Davia

Cory Davia is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Claremont McKenna College. He works in metaethics and philosophy of action, with a particular focus on...

Why the Genetic Fallacy is Not a Fallacy

Trivia question: which country was the first to pass a public smoking ban? Answer: Nazi Germany. Indeed, German scientists were among the first to...

Enjoy a New Book on Evil

As part of the Blog of the APA‘s partnership with Exact Editions, we are offering one new book in its entirety for readers to...

Seinfeld, Friends, and the Moral Permissibility of Lying

The following two clips, one from Seinfeld and another from Friends, are comedic examples to prompt a discussion about the ethics of lying. As...

A Reflection on Juneteenth 2021

Juneteenth (also known as Emancipation Day)—the celebration of June 19, 1865, the day in which Texas complied with the Emancipation Proclamation—is now a national...

Tourism, Colonialism, and Disease

A recent bonne nouvelle for the jet-set is that the European Union will be reopening its borders to American tourists. The pandemic put a...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Navigating Academic Life

Steven M. Cahn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he served for nearly a decade...

APA Member Interview: Rosalind Chaplin

Rosalind Chaplin is a PhD Candidate at UC San Diego. In September of 2021, she will become a Bersoff fellow at NYU. In July...

Cultivating Climate Response-Ability

With each year, I find my students increasingly concerned about climate change.  A decade ago, their concerns seemed fairly general and abstract.  These days, they are...

“Hi, I’m New Here”: Building a Network of Support

We hardly enter academic spaces as equals.  A growing body of literature shows that membership in different social categories such as race, gender, sexuality,...

Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy of AI, Fritz McDonald

I have a longstanding interest in artificial intelligence. I liked science fiction books a lot when I was younger, and watched plenty of movies...