Yearly Archives: 2022

Why do reparations arguments fail? 

This post is based on material that was presented at a colloquium session on Reparations at the 2022 APA Central. Frigault’s talk was entitled...

Graduate Student Reflection: Student Interaction for Asynchronous Learning

Though I had taught online philosophy courses before, it was still concerning when the COVID-19 pandemic moved everything online. It is simply not ideal...

How a Ghost in the Library Got Me a Job in the White House

When I was in graduate school, I worked in the gifts department of the university library. My job was to process, sort, and acknowledge...

Acknowledge the Truth of Your Confusion: It’s Helpful

Owning the confusion that you honestly have in facing things is a key to philosophy. But this difficult, personally uncomfortable thing is professionally discouraged. Mark Fiocco explains why it shouldn't be.

APA Member Interview: Cody C. Dout

Cody C. Dout is a graduate student at the University of Washington. His work interrogates the tacit assumptions within white-dominated philosophical literatures and aims...

Reality Shows and Appeal to Emotion

The appeal to emotion fallacy can be introduced via the Key & Peele (Comedy Central) video "Who Thinks They Can Dance?" In the video,...

Call for New Series Editors

The Teaching Beat of the Blog of the American Philosophical Association has two positions open.  First, we seek a Series Editor to manage the Graduate...

How love and intimacy shaped philosophical thought

What if we could tell the history of philosophy through the history of philosophers’ love lives? Like the rest of us, philosophers are mere...

Where the Hell have Us White Philosophers Been? The Need for Peace, Love, and Racial Justice in Philosophy

This piece is dedicated to the memories and legacies of the late Charles Mills and Lonel Woods.  I miss you both dearly. “So now that...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die 

Steven Nadler is Vilas Research Professor and the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also...

Vergangenheitsbewältigung Now: 1492 and the Roots of Planetary Injustice

In honor of Earth day, it's worth repeating how planetary injustice emerged from the Age of Exploration's narcissistic object of the globe. How to relate personally to the independent being of the world - and encounter others openly?

APA Member Interview: Derek Estes

Derek Estes is a joint PhD student in Saint Louis University’s Department of Philosophy and Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics. He focuses...

Rethinking Addiction

Addiction is, of course, an extremely serious societal problem. It has destroyed families and communities, ended millions of lives prematurely, and in some cases,...

Why Law

Law is not the only way to try and control behavior. Psychological manipulation, brute force, and managerial direction are other alternatives. The complaints about...

The Weight of Whiteness: A Conversation between Alexis Shotwell and Alison Bailey

Alexis Shotwell: Thanks so much for talking with me about your wonderful book (The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and...