Yearly Archives: 2022

2022
Law and Philosophy

The Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850: Law as a Tool of Oppression

Ashley Bohrer -
On February 12, 1793, Congress passed the first Fugitive Slave Act entitled, “An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Reframing Abortion Lessons

Alida Liberman -
An anticipated disaster is no less horrifying when it eventually occurs. Many of us experienced such horror as we read the leaked Supreme Court...
Syllabus Showcase

Syllabus Showcase: An Intro 50 Years in the Making, Charles Cardwell

Matt Deaton -
For many, “philosophy” primarily evokes activity related to the love of wisdom rather than a body of knowledge or collection of facts.  First seen...
Teaching

Arguments Against Your Own

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Chess players seeking to assess a position need to anticipate the best moves that can be made by their opponents. Similarly, in considering any...
Public Philosophy

Can Critiques of ‘Speciesism’ be Disentangled from Ableism?

Ashley Bohrer -
On November 4th 2020, The Guardian reported the proposed slaughter of 15-17 million mink in Denmark. 12 people had become infected with a novel...
Recently Published Book Spotlight

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Sacred and Secular: Responses to Life in a Finite World

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
Donald. A Crosby is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Colorado State University, where he has taught for 36 years. He is the author of...
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Rebecca Faulkner

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Rebecca Faulkner is a Lecturer in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. She specializes in political philosophy and philosophy of religion with a...
Philosophy and Technology

Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: Technology as Part of Nature

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
In this second to last piece of the Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology series, I frame the final interview to be published in...
Undergraduate Philosophy Clubs

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Seton Hall University

Mia Wood -
The club dates to well before my time, as I only started at Seton Hall University in fall 2016. It’s gone through countless iterations...
Issues in Philosophy

What Should Count for Tenure and Promotion?

APA Blog -
Why couldn’t God get tenure? Because He wrote only one book, and it wasn’t refereed. —Academic jokelore This essay will be published in the forthcoming...
On Congeniality

Great Humanists Care about the People Facing Them

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer -
Must great humanists care about their students? A brilliant scholar thinks not, due in part to his reliance on Aristotelian practical reasoning. But look what happens when we emphasize relational reasoning in the first place.
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Tone-Policing and the Assertion of Authority

Adriel M. Trott -
Tone Policing is a dangerous habit that has real psychosocial consequences. CHANDRA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN If tone policing is anything at all, then it is bad....
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Wonder Philosophy: Workshops for Graduate School Applicants

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
In the following interview, Kino Zhao and Yong Xin Hui discuss their work with Wonder Philosophy, a workshop series intended to provide students with...
Public Philosophy

Why Study Dead White Men?

Ashley Bohrer -
It’s no secret that many revered and influential philosophers of the early and late modern periods were racists. They weren’t like many of the...
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Brian Earp

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Brian Earp is Senior Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Associate Director of the...