Yearly Archives: 2021

Still Harming: Why the Trump-Era Title IX Regulations Need to Go

In August, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a defense of the Title IX regulations implemented by the Trump administration. The author, Tamara Rice...

Zooming Across Boundaries: Organizing a Reading Group during a Pandemic

A Philosophy PhD program is a long and difficult experience under normal conditions. If you add a pandemic on top of that, you have...

What attracts you to philosophy?

As part of our ongoing reader engagement project, the APA Blog would like to learn more about its readers and their interests. We view...

A Match Made in Law? On Corporations and Their Uncomfortable Fit with Democracy

Even though many people in the world live under democratic governments, they spend much of their lives under dictatorial rule. For about a third...

The Global Fight for the Humanities: Why a Liberal Arts College in Singapore Matters

Last month—in a move that shocked unsuspecting students, faculty, and alumnae—Yale-NUS College announced that the Singaporean liberal arts college founded just ten years ago...

Recently Published (Audio)Book Spotlight: Ethics in a Nutshell

Dr. Matt Deaton has hosted a comedy club, competitively boxed and kickboxed, and once survived an entire Christmas season without a single drop of...

APA Member Interview: Jeffrey Patrick Colgan

Jeffrey Patrick Colgan is an incoming PhD student at Tulane University and a current master’s student at the CUNY Graduate Center, whose philosophical interests...

Sophia’s Garden: Teaching Children and Teenagers Philosophy and Social Justice

SUNY Cortland’s Sophia’s Garden project helps encourage philosophical inquiry and language enrichment for children. Its motto is “Engaging Curious Young Minds to Make Learning...

Gaze

I am watching the news with my brother-in-law on a drizzly October evening at his house in Yvelines, southwest of Paris. He stands against...

Remembering Charles Mills

On September 21, Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center passed away. What followed underscored the immense impact that...

Unfinished Garden: Desislava Parashkevova

A process philosopher concerned with individuation leaves academia to tend her own garden. Much to her surprise and relief, there, alongside her family - it flourishes unfinished.

APA Member Interview: Emmanuel Cuisinier

Emmanuel Cuisinier is a Franco-Canadian philosophy student currently doing an MA at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He specializes in ontology, phenomenology, and philosophy of...

Emotional Labor and Affective Injustice

The 'Concept Creep' of Emotional Labor The term “emotional labor” used to be more narrowly defined than it is today. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild invented the...

Thank You for Arguing

The dark comedy Thank You For Smoking (2005) focuses on how lobbyist Nick Naylor uses crafty rhetorical tactics to promote the interests of Big...

Nominations are open for APA leadership positions

The American Philosophical Association is now accepting nominations for APA leadership positions for terms beginning July 1, 2022. Visit the online nominations system. There will be...