Yearly Archives: 2021

Three Ways to Bring Climate into Your Teaching

Addressing climate change is one of the mega-responsibilities of our lifetimes—and the lifetimes of our students. Philosophy offers excellent tools and relevant resources for...

Relational Perspectivism in Anzaldúa and Lugones Contra Nietzsche

Nietzsche’s philosophy holds radical possibilities for feminist philosophy. He disrupted traditional philosophical accounts of what it means to be human and how we create...

Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy of Person, Amber George

When tasked with creating the course “Philosophy of Person,” I wished to focus on the great existential thinkers. I teach this course at an...

Philosophy with Higher Stakes: An Interview with Rosalie Lochner

Ashley Bohrer: Why don't you start by telling me a little bit about yourself and your background in philosophy. Rosalie Lochner: I got my PhD...

APA Member Interview: Henry Curtis

Henry Curtis is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University at Albany, SUNY primarily focusing on bioethics. Prior to his studies in Albany,...

Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: Technology and the Politics of the Common Good

A focus for the Philosophy and The Mirror of Technology Series is the pervasive impact of technology.  This piece considers the danger consistent with...

Barrett Holmes Pitner’s “The Crime Without a Name”

I recently had the good fortune of a live-streamed New York Public Library conversation with philosopher and journalist Barrett Holmes Pitner. The focus of...

Access and Relationality

What does it mean to have one’s disability access needs met? To answer this question, we need to know a few things—what are access...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Inwardness: An Outsiders’ Guide

In his new book, Inwardness: An Outsiders’ Guide, Jonardon Ganeri explores questions about our inner lives. He includes perspectives from a range of traditions,...

APA Member Interview: Alexandra Cunningham

Alexandra Cunningham is an MA student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, who previously completed a BA in philosophy and...

Minding the Gap: Language Games and Early Trauma in Analytic Process

Gaming a System I hope in this article to describe how the heart and “guts” of our analytic or therapeutic processes cannot be captured in...

A Critique of the Colonial Cleanliness Crusade

At the beginning of the 19th century, most Euro-Americans would bathe three times: after birth, before marriage (which was required if one was a...

Graduate Student Reflection Series: On How to Understand Texts

The Graduate Student Reflection Series invites current students to share reflections on their experience in a philosophy graduate program. Reflections should focus on a...

Feminist Public Philosophy Beyond the Academy: An Interview with Amelia Hruby

Ashley Bohrer: Why don't you start by telling me a little bit about your philosophical background. What'd you study? Where’d you study it? What...

Reason & the Life to Come: Caleb Cohoe on Spiritual Exercises

John Cooper was right that truth and reason matter to philosophy as a way of life; but not only truth and reason matter.