Monthly Archives: October, 2022

APA Member Interview: Manuela Gomez

Manuela A. Gomez is a professor of philosophy at El Paso Community College. She has over 17 years of teaching experience on both sides...

Wittgenstein, Feynman, and the Limits of Intuition and Objectivity in Quantum Theory

Richard Feynman, over the course of his long career, wanted to convince students and even the public that quantum theory does not make sense....

Ethics Bowl for an Uncivil World

The world is too much with us late and soon... —William Wordsworth When Wordsworth wrote these words, he was concerned that the world was increasingly encroaching...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Roanoke College

The Roanoke College Philosophy Club was started in 2015 at the request of several students who wanted a place to continue philosophical discussions in...

Can Pessimists be Political?

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

A Simple Argument for Why Science Should Be for the Oppressed

Co-Editor’s Note: I composed the following short essay for an asynchronous online summer course in Philosophy of Science. The course is centered around presenting...

Vision for the Current Events in Public Philosophy Series

Ask someone what springs to mind when they think of a philosopher, and you’ll typically get one of three answers. First, they may paint...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Cognition and Practice

Rafal Banka is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Oxford in England. His areas of research include Chinese and Western...

APA Member Interview: Ollin Garcia Pliego

Ollin García Pliego (México) writes poetry and narrative, and is a Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. For his...

First Steps on the Rocky Path to Diversity and Inclusion in Cognitive Science

I was initially asked to develop an Intro to Cognitive Science course as an upper-level Liberal Studies Option for Degree students (majors) in a...

The Body Problem and the Climate Crisis

Students of Anglo-European philosophy might be familiar with the “mind-body problem.” The problem originates with early seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, who...

Expanding the Canon Through Storytelling: A Pedagogically Queer Approach

For much of philosophy’s past, the canon has been exclusively favorable to those whom society privileged. Think of any philosopher whose name you may...

Reports from Abroad: Dr. Krishna Mani Pathak (Part 2)

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