Monthly Archives: August, 2022

Should We Embrace Nature as a God?

Can treating nature as a God be a solution to the problems of the climate crisis, or is that likely to cause even more...

Professors as Teachers: Criteria for Awarding Tenure

This post is the second of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work he suggests how departments...

The Five Lives of Raya Dunayevskaya: Sources of Intersectional Marxism

The history of women thinkers is marked by enforced obsolescence, especially once male counterparts start working in the same terrain. Think of Hypatia or...

Dig in and Look Beyond Appearances: Campus Politics Lacks Community

Katherine speaks to her old friend Nora about what political engagement on campus lacks, online politics, and helping to make our communities work.

APA Member Interview: Mike Gadomski

Mike Gadomski is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, working in political philosophy and meta-political philosophy. Born...

Postdigital Film as Philosophy of Praxis

The Rebirth of Satire I recently received Shane Ralston’s invitation to write ‘a treatment of a single film, classic or contemporary, from any philosophical...

Incomplete Categories and Peripheries of Thought: Where is Philosophy From?

Some time since I moved to the United States, my home country, Turkey, shifted its geographic location, and so did my relation to the...

Professors as Teachers: In Defense of Tenure

This post is the first of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work, he suggests how departments...

On Finding Common Ground

So-called “affective polarization” (Iyengar & Westwood, 2015)—deep antagonism between outgroup members—is a pressing contemporary issue. Affectively polarized individuals are often incapable of cooperating, engaging...

APA Member Interview: Sophia F. Gao

Sophia F. Gao is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, where her research is guided by philosophers...

Land Acknowledgements and Trans Philosophy: What are we Compelled to Do?

“It’s one thing to say, ‘Hey, we’re on the territory of the Mississaugas or the Anishinaabek and the Haudenosaunee.’ It’s another thing to say,...

Syllabus Showcase: Infinity, Russell Marcus

Philosophy 122: Infinity introduces philosophy exclusively to first-year students.  It is one of several thematic introductory courses taught in my department, where some of...

A Reflection on Eva Kittay on Human Dignity

Eva Feder Kittay’s Learning from My Daughter presents an argument worth considering as notions of “anti-human” and “post-human” have gained currency. The daughter to...

APA Member Interview: Abdul Ansari

Abdul Ansari is a third year PhD student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research primarily lies in normative ethics, meta-ethics, and...

The Role of the Arts and Humanities in Thinking about Artificial Intelligence

This blog was originally published on the Ada Lovelace Institute website. It has been reproduced under Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0 and with permission from...