Yearly Archives: 2021

Changing Identities: Are Race and Gender Analogous?

Analogies don’t compare two identical things—if they did, they wouldn’t be analogies. Analogies compare things similar in certain important respects. Analogies can illuminate latent...

Enjoy a New Book about Ethical Reasoning

As part of the Blog of the APA‘s partnership with Exact Editions, we are offering one new book by Broadview Press in its entirety...

More Than an Oculus

Did racism exist in the Renaissance? Can art teach us about morality? The standard answer to both questions seems to be “no”. In fact, although...

Missing and Diverging Information in COVID-19: Complex Causes, Built Environments, and Public Engagement

Information changes, and, often, divergence is involved in the process—perhaps as a catalyst for more adequate information, or maybe just as fuel for the...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Parmenidean Ascent

Michael Della Rocca is a Professor of Philosophy at Yale University who has written extensively on early modern philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. He spoke...

John Doris: What Is It Like To Be a Philosopher?

The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...

Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: A Blog Series on Science, Philosophy and Faith

The Blog of the APA is happy to announce “Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology”, a series of authored articles and interviews about the impact of...

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...