Yearly Archives: 2021

Copyright Infringement and Free Bread

Copyright infringement, although often regarded as theft, seems to be a rather strange kind of property infringement.  If I steal your car, or your...

Recently Published Book Series: Philosophy’s Big Questions

Steven M. Emmanuel is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Susan S. Goode School of Arts and Humanities at Virginia Wesleyan University. He...

APA Member Interview: Jesse Ciccotti

Jesse Ciccotti completed his PhD at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2018. His dissertation compared Mengzi (Mencius) with Marcus Aurelius on what makes a...

Creating Change for Students, Teachers, and the Discipline

It is easy to get bogged down by climate change and its accompanying symptoms: fires, drought, record temperatures, and flooding across the world. What...

Syllabus Showcase: Philosophical-Policy & Legal Design: Methods and Applications, John Martin Gillroy

I have been teaching Philosophical-Policy And Legal Design (PPLD) for over twenty years, and with it, both my undergraduate and graduate students have found...

On Revolutionary History and the Freedom Project: A Review Essay of Julius Scott’s The Common Wind

Julius S. Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution was rightly bestowed with the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book...

How Climate Change Threatens Meaning in Life

It’s understandable that many discussions about the climate crisis focus on existential threats. Claims about human extinction combine the terrifying prospect of mass death...

APA Member Interview: Nicholas Colgrove

Nicholas (Nick) Colgrove currently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in bioethics, philosophy, and religion at Wake Forest University and will be working as a...

Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: Interview with Christopher Tollefsen

One of the goals of this series is to explore the impact of technology on ordinary lives, especially the underappreciated negative aspects of the...

A Feminist in the Forest

Like many others this past year, my children and I sought refuge from the pandemic in the great outdoors. Instead of traveling far from...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: New York University

Our Tea and Philosophy club formally began in the Spring of 2012. It sprang from regular, after-class discussions with some of my students. I suggested starting...

Giving the Finger to the Philosophical “Finger”

If you’ve come within hailing distance of a philosophy talk in the past several years, you’ve no doubt become acquainted with the “finger.”  No,...

Vindicating Moral Progress?

Strange as it might be, I will start this post on moral progress by talking briefly about the Thirty Years War. This devastating war,...

Recently Published Book: Michel Foucault’s Sexuality: The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand & 1969 Vincennes Lectures,

Bernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a chaired professor...

APA Member Interview: Duke Cruz

Duke Cruz is a Ronald E. McNair Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri - Columbia. As a graduate instructor...