Yearly Archives: 2021

Anita Allen awarded the 2021 Quinn Prize in recognition of service

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that the board of officers has selected Anita Allen (University of Pennsylvania) as the recipient of...

APA Announces Fall 2021 Prize Winners

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 13 prizes for the second half of 2021. APA prizes recognize many areas of...

“Or So They Tell Us”: Thinking with Bayard Rustin

It appears that in our current moment one must be either for change or against it. Those who are not actively fighting are pronounced...

APA Member Interview: Benjamin Miller

Benjamin Miller is an MA student in Eastern Philosophy at Yonsei University and an undergraduate alumnus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is currently...

Reports from Abroad: An Interview with Professor Elisabeth Schellekens on Aesthetics and Morality

Elisabeth Schellekens has held the Chair of Aesthetics in the Philosophy Department at Uppsala University since January 2014. She obtained her Ph.D. at King's...

A College Teacher’s Mission

A few decades ago I served on the jury in a highly publicized, double-murder case. The woman who was charged admitted the crimes but...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Awakening of Faith and New Confucian Philosophy

John Makeham is Professor Emeritus at both La Trobe University and The Australian National University. He specializes in the intellectual history of Chinese philosophy,...

APA Member Interview: David Colaco

David Colaço is an incoming Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at LMU Munich, who mainly works on history and philosophy of science, cognitive science,...

Gender Ratio in Philosophy: An Interview with Katharina Nieswandt

Katharina Nieswandt directed a team of philosophers and psychologists (Heather Maranges, Maxine Iannuccilli, Ulf Hlobil and Kristen Dunfield) who developed the first inferential-statistical model...

The Union as a Basic Institution of Society

My new book, In the Name of Liberty: The Argument for Universal Unionization, (Cambridge University Press, 2020) contains three essays. The book’s first essay...

“Study,” “Otherwise Worlds,” & the Issues that Arise in Life

Katherine speaks with radical educator Laura Nelson about the university, the idea of study, and building community at Harvard and beyond.

What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher: Mike Huemer

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...

Barcelona Principles for a Globally Inclusive Philosophy: Interview with Filippo Contesi

View the Barcelona Principles here Filippo Contesi is Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Fellow in the LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy, University of Barcelona. He...

Is Language a Battlefield?

It is old hat to emphasize that language is political. Nowadays we know that everything is political. Language is political, translation is political, and...

APA Member Interview: Alex Wolf-Root

Alex Wolf-Root is an adjunct Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he completed his PhD in 2020. He...