Monthly Archives: September, 2021

APA Member Interview: Nicholas Colgrove

Nicholas (Nick) Colgrove currently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in bioethics, philosophy, and religion at Wake Forest University and will be working as a...

Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: Interview with Christopher Tollefsen

One of the goals of this series is to explore the impact of technology on ordinary lives, especially the underappreciated negative aspects of the...

A Feminist in the Forest

Like many others this past year, my children and I sought refuge from the pandemic in the great outdoors. Instead of traveling far from...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: New York University

Our Tea and Philosophy club formally began in the Spring of 2012. It sprang from regular, after-class discussions with some of my students. I suggested starting...

Giving the Finger to the Philosophical “Finger”

If you’ve come within hailing distance of a philosophy talk in the past several years, you’ve no doubt become acquainted with the “finger.”  No,...

Vindicating Moral Progress?

Strange as it might be, I will start this post on moral progress by talking briefly about the Thirty Years War. This devastating war,...

Recently Published Book: Michel Foucault’s Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand & 1969 Vincennes Lectures,

Bernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a chaired professor...

APA Member Interview: Duke Cruz

Duke Cruz is a Ronald E. McNair Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri - Columbia. As a graduate instructor...

Understanding Morality and No-Self in the context of Western and Buddhist Themes

Can there be morality without self? Do we need a sense of self for morality and ethics to work? The question of selfhood or personhood...

Graduate Student Reflection Series: On the Upside of Zoom Courses

The woes of zoom fatigue have become a popular chorus oft heard ringing ‘round the halls of academia. The term refers to the cognitive...