Yearly Archives: 2021

APA Member Interview: Eliya Cohen

Eliya Cohen is a PhD candidate at Princeton University working primarily on philosophical logic, metaphysics, and applied ethics, with strong side interests in Epicurean...

Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: Quantum AI Invigorates Spinoza

Quantum artificial intelligence ("QAI") is revolutionizing computing because it is not limited to the binary nature of conventional computer bits (which must have a...

Righteous Anger in the Classroom

In recent months, there’s been much public debate about Critical Race Theory, which most legislators believe boils down to teaching about race in the...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club; Mesa Community College

The Mesa Community College Philosophy Club was founded from scratch in March of 2003 (there was not an informal club before that). Before the...

APA Member Interview: Michael Cooper

Michael Cooper is a PhD candidate at the University of South Florida and has a master’s in philosophy from Texas Tech University and a...

Mental Health & Disability Caucus: Community Support through Collaborative Action

Graduate school is a challenge during the best of times. Grad school during a pandemic? A single look at all the MAs and PhDs...

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis Wins the 2022 Danto/ASA Prize

The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) are pleased to announce that Professor Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (Harvard University) has...

The Circle: How to Foster Community in the Classroom

In 2019 the University of Toronto offered a graduate course on German Idealism, taught by Owen Ware. I had no background nor prior interest...

On Antique Spoons: Chapters on Love, Loss and the Politics of Memory

At the release of the Vuma Levin Quintet’s acclaimed CD The Spectacle of An-Other in 2015, Sihle Mthembu had this to say in The...

Reports from Abroad: An Interview with Dr. Lonneke Peperkamp on Just War Theory and Space Wars

Dr. Lonneke Peperkamp is a research fellow at the School of Politics and International Relations (University College Dublin) and an assistant professor in philosophy...

Marisa Diaz-Waian: Philosophy, like Love, Is For Everyone

Marisa Diaz-Waian runs a community-based learning program in outdoor Montana.

APA Member Interview: Thomas Colclough

Thomas Colclough is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests...

Why Relativism is the Worst Idea Ever

The philosopher Allan Bloom once lamented: ‘There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes,...

You’re Wearing That? From School Dress Codes to Rape Culture

The email from my daughter’s elementary school principal arrived one spring afternoon.  It stated that effective immediately for all elementary school students (K-6th grade),...

John Oliver on Vaccines and the Fallacy of Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

John Oliver uses humor to show how the vaccine debate stems largely from a causal fallacy. John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight discusses the sensitive topic...