Monthly Archives: May, 2022

Free Speech is Necessary to Combat the “Administrative State”

Many people, especially on the "progressive" side of politics, seem in recent years to have given up on a combination of views about free...

How Work Alienates Us From Our Social Lives

What does your usual weekday look like? For many of us, academics and non-academics alike, it probably looks something like this. You wake up...

How Not to Be Alienated from Your Own Life

Katherine talks to Zena Hitz about withdrawal, escaping social competition, and learning for its own sake.

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Radical Democracy and Populism: A Thin Red Line?

Leonardo Fiorespino currently teaches ethics at the University of New York in Prague (UNYP). His research focuses on contemporary democratic theory, populism, and normativity...

APA Member Interview: Paulina Ezquerra

Paulina Ezquerra is an MA Student at the University of Houston. She likes to think about ethics generally, with a particular interest in questions...

Philosophizing Contemplation: Towards a (Re)new(ed) Contemplative Philosophy

In this brief reflection, perhaps visionary statement, I want to take some intellectual risks (already long underway), in hopes of advancing what might be...

Philosopher Melissa Jacquart Awarded a Whiting Programs Fellowship

The Whiting Foundation has just announced that they will be awarding six $50,000 Fellowships and five $10,000 Seed Grants to a vibrant cross-section of...

The Ambivalence of Resilience

This essay is dedicated to Peter Emmanuel Mara and Eds Abadam-Mara, my dear friends. Sending you love and strength. There is something discomfiting about referring...

APA Member Interview: Martina Favaretto

Martina Favaretto is a PhD candidate at Indiana University Bloomington. She works on ethics and history of philosophy, with a special focus on Kantian...

The Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850: Law as a Tool of Oppression

On February 12, 1793, Congress passed the first Fugitive Slave Act entitled, “An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service...

Reframing Abortion Lessons

An anticipated disaster is no less horrifying when it eventually occurs. Many of us experienced such horror as we read the leaked Supreme Court...

Syllabus Showcase: An Intro 50 Years in the Making, Charles Cardwell

For many, “philosophy” primarily evokes activity related to the love of wisdom rather than a body of knowledge or collection of facts.  First seen...

Arguments Against Your Own

Chess players seeking to assess a position need to anticipate the best moves that can be made by their opponents. Similarly, in considering any...

Can Critiques of ‘Speciesism’ be Disentangled from Ableism?

On November 4th 2020, The Guardian reported the proposed slaughter of 15-17 million mink in Denmark. 12 people had become infected with a novel...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Sacred and Secular: Responses to Life in a Finite World

Donald. A Crosby is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Colorado State University, where he has taught for 36 years. He is the author of...