Yearly Archives: 2022

In Tension: Effective Altruism and Mutual Aid

Both Effective Altruism and Mutual Aid are social movements aimed at providing aid and relieving poverty. And yet, there is a tension between a...

Entangled Empathy and the Project of Changing the World

The world is a far from perfect place. There are so many problems confronting us – wars, poverty, injustice, racism, climate change. And it’s...

John Rawls and Fair Equality of Opportunity

John Rawls published A Theory of Justice in 1971. At that time no moral problem was more widely discussed than preferential affirmative action. (See...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Liberating Revolution

Nathan Eckstrand is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University. He is also editor-in-chief of the APA Blog, where he has worked...

APA Member Interview: Damian Fisher

Damian Fisher is a Ph.D student in the philosophy department at the University of Kansas. His primary research interests are: philosophy of mind and metaphysics,...

A Category Mistake: Benchmarking Ethical Decisions for AI Systems Using Moral Dilemmas

This blog post combines insights from ‘Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines’, published in AI and Ethics, and a related project, ‘Metaethical Perspectives on “Benchmarking”...

Doing Public Philosophy

(This post is informed by the collective conceptual labor that led to the analysis in a co-written book chapter with Melissa D. Gruver in...

Syllabus Showcase: Ethics in the Novel, Felicia Nimue Ackerman

One of my favorite courses that I have developed is Ethics in the Novel. Why organize an ethics course around novels? Philosophy teachers are well...

The Goals of Campus Discipline

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,...

Acknowledging Intra-Minority Conflict: Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and the Intersectionality of Race and Class

Introduction In light of the recent reports of increased rates of hate crimes, especially violent hate crimes, against Asian Americans, I am motivated to think...

Nietzsche’s Fatalism: Interview with Brian Leiter

The central charter of this series is exploring the evolving relationship among science, philosophy, and faith, with a focus on the import of modern...

Introducing the Professor Reflection Series

I am excited to be editing the “Professor Reflection Series,” a new teaching-focused offering of The Blog of the APA. The series is based...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Stetson University

The Philosophy Club at Stetson University is a monthly meeting of the minds involving faculty, philosophy majors and minors, and students interested in pursuing...

The Forefront of Research: Davidson and Sellars in Dialogue

In this interview, Willem A. deVries, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and co-editor of the Routledge Studies in American Philosophy book...

APA announces Spring 2022 prize winners

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following eight prizes for the first half of 2022. APA prizes recognize many areas of...