Monthly Archives: February, 2022

The Moral Case for the Development of Autonomous Weapon Systems

This blog post is a summary of a longer paper that is forthcoming in the Journal of Military Ethics. Thank you to the journal’s...

How to Run To, Not From: Chores, Cooperatives, & Grimy Learning

I do chores for my cooperative. I love doing them, since they keep me real in college. But the real issue is the structure of community behind them.

APA Member Interview: Mia Wood

Mia Wood is a professor at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, CA, where she is privileged to work with a diverse array of students...

New Journal Announcement: The Saudi Journal of Philosophical Studies

Dear colleagues and fellow philosophers, I would like to announce the establishment of a new journal in philosophy based in the Arab world: The Saudi...

Queering the Ancient World: Liminal Agency in Greek Myth and Presocratic Philosophy

The Pre-Socratics were pre-occupied with the mysterious relation between opposites. Heraclitus is famous for making paradoxical claims like “immortals mortal, mortals immortal, living the...

Luxemburg, Lenin, and Sankara on National Self-Determination

Introduction—National Self-Determination and the Contemporary Conjuncture The questions of nationalism and national self-determination present a highly polarized contradiction within the global conjuncture. The tension of...

APA Announces Winners of the Inaugural Alvin Plantinga Prize

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that the inaugural Alvin Plantinga Prize in the amount of $10,000 has been awarded to Lara...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic

Karen Ng is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, specializing in post-Kantian European philosophy, especially Hegel, German idealism, Marx, and Frankfurt School Critical...

Survival and Self in Audre Lorde (on her birthday)

In her poem “Sacrifice,” Black feminist poet Audre Lorde (1934–1992) gives words of warning about inheritance and the transmission of knowledge across generations: Unless we...

Yujin Nagasawa: What is it Like to be a Philosopher?

The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...

Kaitiakitanga and Climate Change

The Kāretu valley is situated near the Taumārere river, in the north of Aotearoa New Zealand. It has been the homeland of my tribal...

The Contingent Risk of Humane Entrenchment

In my recent book Humane, I outline a modest and narrow argument that making objectionable practices less objectionable—especially in the name of reducing suffering—can...

APA Announces Winners of the 2021 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest: Kimberley Brownlee (University of British Columbia), “Social needs...

Syllabus Showcase: Rethinking Introduction to Philosophy, Brynn Welch

As I suspect is often the case, most of my students in Introduction to Philosophy are there to fulfill a general education requirement rather...

A Posthumous Evaluation of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois for Professor at——

February is Black History Month in the United States. The 23rd day of February 2022 is W.E.B. Du Bois’s 154th birthday.  It is fitting...