Monthly Archives: August, 2022

Deadly Drones, Killer Trollies

The following piece was originally published in The Philosophical Salon. The US military’s remote warfare has recklessly killed hundreds more civilians than previously disclosed, including many...

The Costs of Climate Change

As the impacts of climate change become more emergent and costly, op-eds have attempted to answer questions of distributive justice. Recently, the most common...

(Un)Fairness in AI: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis

Racial, Gender, and Intersectional Biases in AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now an integral part of society. It is used to make high-stakes decisions, such...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: University of Miami

University of Miami’s undergraduate philosophy club is still in its early stages of official recognition. We’re highlighting our process here, which may be helpful...

Forefront of Research: Revista

In this Forefront of Research showcase, Miguel Ángel G. Calderón discusses his Spanish language philosophy blog, Filosofía en la Red, and their biannual digital...

Reports from Abroad: Professor Peter Adamson

This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalised world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Chinese Liberal Spirit

David Elstein is Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies at the State University of New York, New Paltz. Elstein specializes in Chinese philosophy and although...

APA Member Interview: Zachary Gartenberg

Zachary Gartenberg is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy Department at Johns Hopkins University.  His primary research interests are in early modern philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of...

Measurement and Desert: Why Grades Cannot Be Deserved

One of the most ubiquitous and uncontroversial ideas concerning desert—both in ordinary discourse and in the philosophical literature on desert—is the idea that students...

Professor Reflection Series: Environmental Ethics in Precarious Times

In my experience teaching philosophy, applied ethics courses always pose unique challenges. Because applied ethics goes beyond canonical texts and involves developments in current...

Graduate Student Reflection Series: Self-Incrimination as Feminist Pedagogy

I’m all too familiar with the widespread (mistaken) belief that feminist philosophy is less philosophical or should be treated as such. I have encountered...

New Reports from Abroad Editor: alicehank winham

The Blog of the APA is proud to welcome alicehank winham as the new Reports from Abroad series editor. alicehank studied BA Philosophy and...

Introducing the Everyday Lifestyle Series

“Happiness is thought to involve leisure,” Aristotle tells us, “for we engage in business in order that we may have leisure, and we engage...