Monthly Archives: May, 2022

APA Member Interview: Rebecca Faulkner

Rebecca Faulkner is a Lecturer in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. She specializes in political philosophy and philosophy of religion with a...

Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: Technology as Part of Nature

In this second to last piece of the Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology series, I frame the final interview to be published in...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Seton Hall University

The club dates to well before my time, as I only started at Seton Hall University in fall 2016. It’s gone through countless iterations...

What Should Count for Tenure and Promotion?

Why couldn’t God get tenure? Because He wrote only one book, and it wasn’t refereed. —Academic jokelore This essay will be published in the forthcoming...

Great Humanists Care about the People Facing Them

Must great humanists care about their students? A brilliant scholar thinks not, due in part to his reliance on Aristotelian practical reasoning. But look what happens when we emphasize relational reasoning in the first place.

Tone-Policing and the Assertion of Authority

Tone Policing is a dangerous habit that has real psychosocial consequences. CHANDRA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN If tone policing is anything at all, then it is bad....

Wonder Philosophy: Workshops for Graduate School Applicants

In the following interview, Kino Zhao and Yong Xin Hui discuss their work with Wonder Philosophy, a workshop series intended to provide students with...

Why Study Dead White Men?

It’s no secret that many revered and influential philosophers of the early and late modern periods were racists. They weren’t like many of the...

APA Member Interview: Brian Earp

Brian Earp is Senior Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Associate Director of the...

Why do reparations arguments fail? 

This post is based on material that was presented at a colloquium session on Reparations at the 2022 APA Central. Frigault’s talk was entitled...

Graduate Student Reflection: Student Interaction for Asynchronous Learning

Though I had taught online philosophy courses before, it was still concerning when the COVID-19 pandemic moved everything online. It is simply not ideal...

How a Ghost in the Library Got Me a Job in the White House

When I was in graduate school, I worked in the gifts department of the university library. My job was to process, sort, and acknowledge...