Monthly Archives: October, 2022

Syllabus Showcase: Thrills, Chills, and Some Spills: The Philosophy of Horror, Kenneth Brewer

About ten years ago, I started idly musing about how horror movies are able to frighten and disgust viewers when they know that what...

How Intergenerational Is the Academy? Into the Planetary Project

Intergenerational integrity reshapes the academy, beginning with the Earth that gave rise to us.

APA Member Interview: Claire Field

Claire Field is a philosopher working in epistemology and ethics, and a postdoctoral research fellow at the AHRC-funded project Varieties of Risk. Currently, her...

The Philosophy of Inception

Inception (2010) raises philosophical questions throughout the film, but especially at the end. The protagonist, Cobb, returns home after completing his mission. Seeing his...

Special Pleading in Fox and Friends’ Lingerie Football Romp: A Critical Thinking Lesson.

I employ a segment from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart titled “Fox & Friends’ Lingerie Football Romp” (2009 season) in my critical thinking...

Is it okay to have kids if they would be better off not existing?

This post is a part of an ongoing biweekly series on philosophical pessimism and related positions. You can find other posts in the series...

Revealing Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

Margaret A. Burnham’s poignant, innovative, and meticulously researched book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, brings to the fore an open American...

Remembering Bruno Latour and His Contributions to Philosophy

With the death of Bruno Latour from cancer on October 9, the world lost a prominent and paradoxical figure whose deepest contributions are not...

Neutrality and the Politicized Classroom

In his book Varieties of Academic Freedom, Stanley Fish argues that academic work should be free of politics. Capturing well the impatience of critics...

APA Member Interview: Ana Gomez

Ana Gomez is a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at Purdue University. In her undergraduate studies, she majored both in Law and Philosophy and became...

Syllabus Showcase: Perspectives on Work and Leisure, Mark Coppenger

Back around 1980, when I was a philosophy professor at Wheaton College in Illinois, I introduced a course on work and leisure, and, in...

More Than Species-Relative Goodness: What Children Teach Us

Over a decade ago, I was introduced to the works of Philippa Foot in a graduate seminar. I would not have predicted then that...

Teaching an Accelerated Online Course

The Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Montclair State University provides full-time students with the option to complete their degree in an...

Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Letter to Beginning Philosophy Students

This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalised shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...

What Do We Do When We Talk about “Evil”?

Talk about “evil” is beside the point.