Monthly Archives: August, 2021

A Reply to Paget Henry’s “Self, Language and Metaphysics: A Review of Teodros Kiros’s Self-Definition: A Philosophical Inquiry from the Global South and the...

Paget Henry wrote a review of my book Self-Definition: A Philosophical Inquiry from the Global South and the Global North. I offer here some...

Using the ‘Plague Management Model’ to Understand The Panoptic Surveillance Amidst Coronavirus: A Foucauldian Analysis

In Madness and Civilization (1961), Foucault discussed leprosy, an epidemic that troubled Europe profoundly. Although, with monitoring and isolating the population, leprosy vanished at the end...

To Learn Is Beautiful, But Who Gets To? Katherine Starting Out

Wanting to study philosophy, Katherine Cassese will be taking us through her time in college. As she prepared to leave Cleveland, Ohio for Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sidra & Jeremy interviewed her about her new mini-series.

APA Member Interview: Kristin Conrad Kilgallen

Kristin Conrad Kilgallen received an MA in Philosophy from The University of British Columbia. Their primary interests are feminist and Indigenous philosophy and they...

Select Philosophy Podcasts (Co-)Hosted by Women: A Listicle

Podcasting is to the early 2020s what blogging was to the late aughts. The philosophy podcast world in particular has exploded, and it can...

John Oliver and the Fallacy of Hasty Generalization

In this clip, John Oliver reveals how mainstream media morning shows make hasty generalizations based on preliminary studies. John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight deals...

Four Theses on Fake News

Fake news undermines free speech culture by impairing our ability to develop and express our thoughts. To fix the problem, we need to police...

APA Member Interview: Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre

Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre is a Ph.D. candidate at McGill University. His central interests are in political philosophy, philosophy of law, and global ethics. Before pursuing...

Community Building in an Online Conference

Climate activists often say: Organize your networks! Collective action and social movements have become crucial for an effective response to a growing climate emergency....

Syllabus Showcase: Social, Ethical, and Professional Issues in Computer Science, Trystan Goetze

Data breaches, algorithmic bias, digital rights management, surveillance technology, facial recognition, Cambridge Analytica, online misinformation, job automation, the singularity – these are just some...

Ethics of Freedom, Politics for Decolonization: Thoughts on Devin Shaw’s Philosophy of Antifascism

Devin Zane Shaw’s Philosophy of Antifascism offers an account of the normative basis for militant or insurrectionary antifascist praxis, concluding with a reflection on...

Louisiana’s Idiosyncratic Economic Incentive Programs and Cancer/Death Alley

Industrial Ad Valorem Tax Exemption Program(ITEP) in Louisiana Recently, a UN Report vindicated claims of environmental racism in Louisiana that local environmental groups and civic...

Recently Published Book: Seen and Not Heard

Jana Mohr Lone is the director of the University of Washington Center for Philosophy for Children, an academic research center devoted to scholarship and...

APA Member Interview: Eliya Cohen

Eliya Cohen is a PhD candidate at Princeton University working primarily on philosophical logic, metaphysics, and applied ethics, with strong side interests in Epicurean...

Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: Quantum AI Invigorates Spinoza

Quantum artificial intelligence ("QAI") is revolutionizing computing because it is not limited to the binary nature of conventional computer bits (which must have a...