Monthly Archives: September, 2022

Navigating the Apocalypse

A variety of ancient religious and cultural texts warn us about an apocalypse whereby the world ends following some sort of disastrous event(s) incurred...

APA Member Interview: Will Gamrat

Will Gamrat is a second year Ph.D. student at University of Illinois-Chicago. His primary research interests are in the philosophy of mind and the...

A Philosopher’s Take on Effective (Non-Egoic) Activism

Billions of farmed animals are hurt and killed in terrible ways every year on factory farms around the world. Professional ethicists like myself are...

The Lost Women of Early Analytic Philosophy

As new histories of early analytic philosophy and its pre-history begin to appear, there is a striking absence of female names. For example, the...

The Importance of Meaningful Student Engagement in the Classroom: The See-Do-Teach Approach

“What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand.” “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember,...

Professors as Teachers: Two Tenure Cases

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

Reports from Abroad: Dr. Krishna Mani Pathak (Part 1)

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

Is Housework a Sisyphean Struggle or a Way to Bring Joy to Our Lives?

Disclaimer: For the purposes of this blog article, the author aims to contrast the public life of men and the private life of women,...

Did You Get the Memo? Marx, Alienation, and Office Space

Few comedies depict the banal, Kafkaesque day-to-day of working life as well as Mike Judge’s 1999 film Office Space. When teaching Marx on the...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Antigone in the Americas

Andrés Fabián Henao Castro is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research broadly seeks to rethink the relationship between...

APA Member Interview: Austin Fuller

Austin Fuller is a student of philosophy that is particularly interested in the philosophy of art and aesthetics, but is really interested in too...

Charles Mills: On Seeing and Naming the Whiteness of Philosophy

This post was originally published on The Philosopher as part of a series of essays and interviews on the life and philosophy of Charles...