Monthly Archives: September, 2021

Sophia’s Garden: Teaching Children and Teenagers Philosophy and Social Justice

SUNY Cortland’s Sophia’s Garden project helps encourage philosophical inquiry and language enrichment for children. Its motto is “Engaging Curious Young Minds to Make Learning...

Gaze

I am watching the news with my brother-in-law on a drizzly October evening at his house in Yvelines, southwest of Paris. He stands against...

Remembering Charles Mills

On September 21, Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center passed away. What followed underscored the immense impact that...

Unfinished Garden: Desislava Parashkevova

A process philosopher concerned with individuation leaves academia to tend her own garden. Much to her surprise and relief, there, alongside her family - it flourishes unfinished.

APA Member Interview: Emmanuel Cuisinier

Emmanuel Cuisinier is a Franco-Canadian philosophy student currently doing an MA at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He specializes in ontology, phenomenology, and philosophy of...

Emotional Labor and Affective Injustice

The 'Concept Creep' of Emotional Labor The term “emotional labor” used to be more narrowly defined than it is today. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild invented the...

Thank You for Arguing

The dark comedy Thank You For Smoking (2005) focuses on how lobbyist Nick Naylor uses crafty rhetorical tactics to promote the interests of Big...

Nominations are open for APA leadership positions

The American Philosophical Association is now accepting nominations for APA leadership positions for terms beginning July 1, 2022. Visit the online nominations system. There will be...

Copyright Infringement and Free Bread

Copyright infringement, although often regarded as theft, seems to be a rather strange kind of property infringement.  If I steal your car, or your...

Recently Published Book Series: Philosophy’s Big Questions

Steven M. Emmanuel is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Susan S. Goode School of Arts and Humanities at Virginia Wesleyan University. He...

APA Member Interview: Jesse Ciccotti

Jesse Ciccotti completed his PhD at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2018. His dissertation compared Mengzi (Mencius) with Marcus Aurelius on what makes a...

Creating Change for Students, Teachers, and the Discipline

It is easy to get bogged down by climate change and its accompanying symptoms: fires, drought, record temperatures, and flooding across the world. What...

Syllabus Showcase: Philosophical-Policy & Legal Design: Methods and Applications, John Martin Gillroy

I have been teaching Philosophical-Policy And Legal Design (PPLD) for over twenty years, and with it, both my undergraduate and graduate students have found...

On Revolutionary History and the Freedom Project: A Review Essay of Julius Scott’s The Common Wind

Julius S. Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution was rightly bestowed with the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book...

How Climate Change Threatens Meaning in Life

It’s understandable that many discussions about the climate crisis focus on existential threats. Claims about human extinction combine the terrifying prospect of mass death...