Yearly Archives: 2021

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...

Report Springschool “Moral Theory and Real Life”

There were already many reasons to like spring: flowers blossoming, the rebirth of nature, and the approaching warmth of summer. But this spring another...

The War on Wokeness

Opponents of “woke capitalism” want to make “woke” a four-letter word. Yet, at least one philosopher, Stanley Cavell, who spent much of his career...

APA Member Interview: Eddy Keming Chen

Eddy Keming Chen is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He works on philosophy of physics, philosophy of...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Southern Utah University

Southern Utah University’s Philosophy Club is in its nineteenth year. Traditionally the club meets once per week, though this has varied over time, and...

Technologies of Incarceration, COVID-19, and the Racial Politics of Death

In the first few weeks of a nationwide shutdown spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, former Attorney General William P. Barr issued a memorandum to...

Diversity and Equity in Recruitment & Retention

How philosophers hire, tenure, and promote faculty in the U.S. likely contributes to philosophy’s low overall demographic diversity. For example, a recent study shows...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Measuring the Immeasurable Mind

Matthew Owen teaches philosophy at Yakima Valley College in Washington State. He talked with Heidi Schmidt about his new book Measuring the Immeasurable Mind: Where...

APA Member Interview: Danielle Clevenger

Danielle Clevenger is pursuing her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is passionate about the transformative power of philosophy, especially as it relates...