Monthly Archives: July, 2022

How to Be Foolish in Being Angry: Against Sarcasm

What does the fool do when they are irritated by their conditions enough that they feel like tearing into everything? They let the irritation reach their soul. They let another’s beliefs or practices trouble them. Like I said, they are foolish.

APA Member Interview: Kobi Finestone

Kobi Finestone is a doctoral candidate at Duke University who will be taking up a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Smith Institute for Political Economy...

Film as Experience: Vision for the Philosophy of Film Series

“Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” In The Wizard of Oz (1939), a cyclone transports Dorothy and her dog Toto...

Reading Kierkegaard’s Absent Women

Misogynistic or traditionalist views of women lurk in the background of many a philosopher in the Western tradition. For Søren Kierkegaard, a blend of...

What Should Philosophers Do in Response to Dobbs? A Conversation With Ethicists

  In the wake of the Dobbs decision, many philosophers are left wondering how the changed landscape should impact their behavior.  What are our obligations...

APA Member Interview: Matthew Fee

Matthew Fee is a 4th-year PhD student at the University of Memphis. His research interests are in 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy, ontology, and...

Nietzsche and the Machines

The following piece was originally posted in The Philosophers' Magazine. There is a lot of grandstanding going on today about the ethics of machines. Intellectuals have...

Samuel Alito’s Histories of Freedom

In early May, Politico published a leaked draft of Samuel Alito’s forthcoming opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which affirms Mississippi’s law...

Syllabus Showcase: Environmental Ethics with a North American Indigenous Philosophy Emphasis, Janella Baxter

My Environmental Ethics course includes an extended unit on North American Indigenous philosophy. My interest in this literature is deeply personal. My father is...

Why Teach About Race in Modern Philosophy

“The best idea that may occur to those who try to acquire genuine knowledge, if they were educated according to traditional methods, is to...

APA Member Interview: Rich Eva

Rich Eva is a philosophy PhD student at Baylor University with primary research interests in social & political philosophy and ethics, especially applied ethics....

New Technology Research Editor: Interview with Charlie Taben

The Blog of the APA is proud to welcome Charlie Taben as the new Philosophy and Technology Research series editor. Charlie previously worked as an editor...

Introducing the Ethical Issues in Public Philosophy Series

Times are changing. Roads may soon be populated by self-driving cars. The meat on sale in the supermarket may, before too long, be grown...

Intimacy, Illness, and Forced Gestation

Two weeks ago, I was diagnosed with a chronic illness. The past few months have been a whirlwind of surgeries, IVs, MRIs, and medications....

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: University of Nevada, Reno

UNR Philosophy boasts an undergraduate club that’s been active for more than two decades, dating back to at least before the arrival of any...