Monthly Archives: June, 2022

In Praise of Experimental Workshops

The following is a two-part post in which Lauren Guilmette and Ada Jaarsma reflect on their experiences with the Image-Text and Experimental Writing Workshop...

TikTok Pedagogy: Teaching Philosophy in 60 Seconds or Less

I teach philosophy on TikTok, perhaps to the surprise of some colleagues in the discipline (who haven’t met me), and to parts of the...

Teaching Environmental Ethics

Environmental Ethics is one of the major fields in applied ethics. Applied ethics as a field in philosophy is rather new. It had its...

One Way to Think with Precarity in the Classroom

Having discussed issues of responsibility that come up in the context of structural injustice as well as pathways towards solidarity, for this third post of Precarity and Philosophy, I wanted to turn to how precarity can be addressed in the classroom.

APA Blog: Ricardo Friaz

Ricardo Friaz is a fifth-year PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Oregon. His primary research areas are in Latin American philosophy, 19th...

In Tension: Effective Altruism and Mutual Aid

Both Effective Altruism and Mutual Aid are social movements aimed at providing aid and relieving poverty. And yet, there is a tension between a...

Entangled Empathy and the Project of Changing the World

The world is a far from perfect place. There are so many problems confronting us – wars, poverty, injustice, racism, climate change. And it’s...

John Rawls and Fair Equality of Opportunity

John Rawls published A Theory of Justice in 1971. At that time no moral problem was more widely discussed than preferential affirmative action. (See...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Liberating Revolution

Nathan Eckstrand is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University. He is also editor-in-chief of the APA Blog, where he has worked...

APA Member Interview: Damian Fisher

Damian Fisher is a Ph.D student in the philosophy department at the University of Kansas. His primary research interests are: philosophy of mind and metaphysics,...

A Category Mistake: Benchmarking Ethical Decisions for AI Systems Using Moral Dilemmas

This blog post combines insights from ‘Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines’, published in AI and Ethics, and a related project, ‘Metaethical Perspectives on “Benchmarking”...

Doing Public Philosophy

(This post is informed by the collective conceptual labor that led to the analysis in a co-written book chapter with Melissa D. Gruver in...

Syllabus Showcase: Ethics in the Novel, Felicia Nimue Ackerman

One of my favorite courses that I have developed is Ethics in the Novel. Why organize an ethics course around novels? Philosophy teachers are well...

The Goals of Campus Discipline

This essay will be published in the forthcoming book Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Rowman & Littlefield,...

Acknowledging Intra-Minority Conflict: Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and the Intersectionality of Race and Class

Introduction In light of the recent reports of increased rates of hate crimes, especially violent hate crimes, against Asian Americans, I am motivated to think...