Yearly Archives: 2022

Intimacy, Illness, and Forced Gestation

Two weeks ago, I was diagnosed with a chronic illness. The past few months have been a whirlwind of surgeries, IVs, MRIs, and medications....

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: University of Nevada, Reno

UNR Philosophy boasts an undergraduate club that’s been active for more than two decades, dating back to at least before the arrival of any...

Prudent Reserve in Academic Administration

This essay will be published in the forthcoming book Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Rowman & Littlefield,...

How to Teach About Race in Modern Philosophy

This post is part of a two-part series on including race in early modern philosophy curricula. This first part introduces ways to incorporate discussions...

APA Member Interview: Emma Fieser

Emma Fieser is currently a second-year philosophy PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in...

Professor Reflections Series: Feminism for Philosophers, Philosophy for Feminists

Several weeks ago, I finished teaching the course Philosophical Foundations of Feminism for the second time. I teach at the University of Rochester, a...

Graduate Student Reflection Series: Teaching Oppression During a Graduate Students’ Strike

During the spring of 2022, I taught the in-person P103 level class “Gender, Sexuality and Race in Philosophical Perspective” at Indiana University Bloomington. The...

Smash the Machinery of Time: Asylum Philosophy

Charlotte is a legal guardian. She advocates for youth under the age of 18 seeking asylum in Belgium. I wanted to talk with her about this work.

Recently Published Book Spotlight: How to Play Philosophy

Michael Picard, MSc, PhD writes and teaches philosophy at Douglas College in Vancouver, Canada. He ran Café Philosophy, a weekly public participatory philosophy event...

APA Member Interview: Dylan Flint

Dylan Flint is a PhD candidate at The Ohio State University, where he is working on a dissertation in Leibniz. He completed an MA...

In Praise of Experimental Workshops

The following is a two-part post in which Lauren Guilmette and Ada Jaarsma reflect on their experiences with the Image-Text and Experimental Writing Workshop...

TikTok Pedagogy: Teaching Philosophy in 60 Seconds or Less

I teach philosophy on TikTok, perhaps to the surprise of some colleagues in the discipline (who haven’t met me), and to parts of the...

Teaching Environmental Ethics

Environmental Ethics is one of the major fields in applied ethics. Applied ethics as a field in philosophy is rather new. It had its...

One Way to Think with Precarity in the Classroom

Having discussed issues of responsibility that come up in the context of structural injustice as well as pathways towards solidarity, for this third post of Precarity and Philosophy, I wanted to turn to how precarity can be addressed in the classroom.

APA Blog: Ricardo Friaz

Ricardo Friaz is a fifth-year PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Oregon. His primary research areas are in Latin American philosophy, 19th...