Monthly Archives: June, 2022

Nietzsche’s Fatalism: Interview with Brian Leiter

The central charter of this series is exploring the evolving relationship among science, philosophy, and faith, with a focus on the import of modern...

Introducing the Professor Reflection Series

I am excited to be editing the “Professor Reflection Series,” a new teaching-focused offering of The Blog of the APA. The series is based...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Stetson University

The Philosophy Club at Stetson University is a monthly meeting of the minds involving faculty, philosophy majors and minors, and students interested in pursuing...

The Forefront of Research: Davidson and Sellars in Dialogue

In this interview, Willem A. deVries, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and co-editor of the Routledge Studies in American Philosophy book...

APA announces Spring 2022 prize winners

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following eight prizes for the first half of 2022. APA prizes recognize many areas of...

Everyday Moral Stress and the COVID-19 Pandemic

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in March 2020, I ordered Chinese take-out via a delivery app. I...

Results of the Recent APA Elections

Over the last few months, members of the APA elected new divisional officers, a new member-at-large of the APA board of officers, two new...

APA Member Interview: Philipa Friedman

Philipa (Pippa) Friedman (she/her) works in social and political philosophy, particularly political epistemology and democratic theory. She earned her PhD in December 2021 and...

The Mencian Creature: A Distinctive Moral Psychology

What do people think and feel when they make important moral decisions? How do the mind and the brain draw moral judgments? Moral psychology...

Roe, Abortion, and the Right to Ourselves

When I joined a protest the day after the leak of Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe, rage overwhelmed me. My rage was not...

Graduate Student Reflection Series: On Being A Luddite

I was born into a world of burgeoning technology, but I don’t particularly enjoy using it. So when I began teaching, it felt natural...