Yearly Archives: 2022

Complete Philosophy Is Personal: We Relate to Each Other

As many of us head into the new year, perhaps it’s worth remembering how philosophy is personal.

APA Member Interview: Laura Gurskey

Laura Gurskey is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California, specializing in metaethics and social & political philosophy. She currently resides...

Moral Agency, Informed Consent and the ‘Last Tango’ Rape Scene

As the Harvey Weinstein trial proceeds in Los Angeles and the #MeToo movement makes ever-greater strides to leverage survivor justice, a look back at...

Thought Experiments, “Reverse-Racism,” and Comedy

In the following clip from comedian Aamer Rahman, the concept of “reverse racism” is considered. Is it a meaningless rhetorical construction, or does it...

The Joys of Being a Teaching Assistant

Maybe it’s naïve to enjoy being a teaching assistant. The hours can be long, grading is often an exercise in patience and understanding, and...

APA Member Interview: Akshay Gupta

Akshay Gupta is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary. His research interests include Indian philosophy, Vedānta, and philosophy of...

“The Writing Workshop”: Increasing Representation in Philosophy

It’s common in philosophy departments to have fewer women on faculty than men. In our Ph.D. granting institution (at least while we were there),...

Syllabus Showcase, Introduction to Ethics, Laura M. Bernhardt

Introductory ethics courses are the bread and butter of university general education offerings in philosophy, typically taken by non-majors navigating basic graduation requirements and/or...

Globalizing Political Theory and the Challenges of Making it Happen

The call to globalize and decolonize academia and to decenter European and North American political thought and philosophy within these fields is by now...

Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Reflections on Dragon Philosophy and Guerrilla Love with Kalonji Changa

This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalised shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...

Why Location Matters When Choosing A Graduate School

When deciding where to go to graduate school, it is common to think of a state’s politics as tangential. You may take issue with...

APA Member Interview: Lance Gracy

Lance Gracy is a Teaching Fellow and Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of North Texas in the Department of Philosophy and Religion....

The Curse, the Prison Cell, and the Lynching Mob: Revisiting the Limits of Law with Paul, Boethius, and the Coen Brothers

In a time that seems almost defined by social instability, “law” seems at once essential and treacherous. On the one hand, the law (as...

The Limitations of the Criminal Law’s Ability to Express the Value of Women

Feminist legal and political philosopher Jean Hampton was not alone when she argued in 1998 that gender-based violence is “perhaps the most important tool...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Utah State University

On a sunny Tuesday autumn afternoon, the Utah State Philosophy Club meets on the grassy quad next to Old Main right at the base of the...