Yearly Archives: 2021

2021
Women in Philosophy

It’s Time to Talk about Women’s Submission

Julinna Oxley -
As a French person, I grew up thinking that philosophy was for everyone. My parents didn’t go to college, but I grew up seeing Foucault,...
Teaching

He is the Park Ranger, she is the Other: gender in Parks and Recreation

William Parkhurst -
This clip from Parks and Recreation plays on stereotypes of femininity and can be used to explore the concept of the Other in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex."
Black Issues in Philosophy

Antiblackness and Philosophical Duplicity

Heidi Schmidt -
The black woman philosopher Adrian Piper had an unfortunate run-in with Wilfred Van Orman Quine on her first day as a Harvard graduate student....
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Britta Clark

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Britta Clark is a third-year PhD student at Harvard University. She received a BA in Environmental Studies and Philosophy from Bates College, and an...
Public Philosophy

Academic Boycott: A Qualified Defense

Ashley Bohrer -
Recent decades have seen the open letter and the call to boycott installed as regular fixtures of academic life. Each passing quarter (or so)...
Syllabus Showcase

Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy & Film, Marc A. Joseph

Matt Deaton -
The inspiration for a class on philosophy and film came to me after watching (not for the first time) Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, and thinking,...
Genealogies of Philosophy

American Ecstatics: A Surfacing

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer -
We have to make room for societies that are not colonial. American philosophy has not come to terms with this task. It is more than theoretical.
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: César Cabezas

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
César Cabezas is the ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy of Race at Temple University. Prior to Temple, he completed his PhD in philosophy...
Teaching

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Club Advisor: Matthew Meyer The Philosophy Club of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire began, in its current iteration,  in the Fall of 2015. The club...
Public Philosophy

Immigration, Samaritan Duties, and Future Generations

Ashley Bohrer -
One reason that immigrants relocate to new countries is because they want their children, grandchildren, and so on, to lead better lives than they...
Recently Published Book Spotlight

Recently Published Book: Banshee and the Sperm Whale

Heidi Schmidt -
Jake Camp is a writer and community college philosophy professor who lives in Colorado with his sons.  He talked with Heidi Schmidt about his...
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Isabel Canfield

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Isabel Canfield is a Ph.D. student at the University of Notre Dame. Her central interests are in ethics, moral philosophy, and action theory. Isabel...
Research

The Philosophy of Computer Science

Heidi Schmidt -
What is the subject matter of the philosophy of computer science? I believe that the philosophical questions lurk everywhere, even beyond those areas conspicuously...
Public Philosophy

Go the F**k to Sleep? A Feminist Philosopher Reads Advice to Parents

Ashley Bohrer -
The genre of parenting advice books that focus on children’s sleep might seem like a strange archive for a feminist philosopher. Like many of...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Dismantling Kantian Frames: Notes toward a Feminist Politics of Location and Accountability

Adriel M. Trott -
Kant’s philosophical system is one of those master discourses in the discipline of philosophy (and beyond) – a whole architecture – that everyone, including...
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