Yearly Archives: 2021

Christian List Awarded the 2020 Gittler Award

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce Christian List (LMU Munich) has been awarded the 2020 Joseph B. Gittler Award for his book,...

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò: 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...

Call for nominations: 2022 Danto/ASA Prize

The APA and the ASA invite nominations for the 2022 Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize. The Danto/ASA Prize will be awarded to a...

Time, Beauty, and Spirit in Kamëntšá Culture: A Brief Review

For someone like me who has research interest in myth and religion, Juan Alejandro Chindoy’s A Decolonial Philosophy of Indigenous Colombia contains wonderful analyses...

Syllabus Showcase: News & Knowing, Justin McBrayer

This is a course that focuses on the fake news epidemic in a way that non-philosophy majors can understand and appreciate.  It could function...

Enjoy a book on Environmental Ethics

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

A Philosophy of Sedition?

Shadi Bartsch, professor of Classics at the University of Chicago called it “weird.” "It" here refers to an excerpt from a New York Times...

What Makes a Course Resilient?

Like universities all across the country, mine announced, mid-semester in the spring of 2020, that we’d all be transitioning to online learning in less...

Rafael Vizcaíno Wins the 2020 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce Rafael Vizcaíno (DePaul University) has been awarded the 2020 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought for...

How do you bring candidates “to campus” during the COVID-19 pandemic? Part 1

The pandemic has put a halt to a lot of hiring in the academy.  Of course, higher education is not the only sector facing...

Relational Egalitarianism is Not about Egalitarian Relationships

That equality is an essential part of justice - or even that justice just is some kind of equality - has been central to...

The Joseph Saga: Turnabouts, Trade-Offs, and Transience

         Literary works often stimulate philosophical reflection. Such is the case with the Biblical account of the life of Joseph as related in the final chapters...

Book Spotlight: Ask a Philosopher

Ian Olasov is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center and the founder of Brooklyn Public Philosophers, a philosophy event series for a...

Call for applications to be an APA nominee for the Whiting Public Engagement Programs

The Whiting Foundation has invited the APA to nominate up to four early career, full- or part-time faculty for the 2022–2023 Whiting Public Engagement...

APA Member Interview: George Borg

George Borg is a historian and philosopher of science and an instructor at the University of Pittsburgh. He works on philosophical and metahistorical issues...