Yearly Archives: 2022

Entropy and Aging

Aging is something sentient beings do. We humans not only grow old, but obsessively reflect on the meaning of aging, its unwelcome impositions on...

The Moral Justification of a Ban on Congressional Stock Trading

In the weeks preceding the pandemic, (then) U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Kelly Loeffler, James Inhofe, and Richard Burr sold hundreds of thousands of dollars...

APA announces Fall 2022 prize winners

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following 14 prizes for the second half of 2022. APA prizes recognize many areas of...

APA Awards Grants to 10 Projects for 2022–2023

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that it will provide grants to 10 philosophy-related projects in the 2022–2023 fiscal year. For more...

APA Member Interview: Mary Gregg

Mary Gregg received her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in April 2022 and will begin her lectureship with Yonsei University’s Underwood International College in...

To Assess Technologies, Bioethicists Must Take Off Their Blinkers

The following piece was originally published in the Hastings Center Report (September-October) A casual review of the literature reveals mainstream bioethics’ love affair with biomedical technologies:...

Moral Status and Moral Agency in Science Fiction

Kantian theories on moral status tightly weave together rationality, agency, dignity, and personhood. A common complaint about these theories set the bar for membership...

What’s In a Name? Rethinking CSW

On September 23, 2022 the APA hosted the first of three currently-planned panels on “The Status of ‘Women’ in the Committee on the Status...

A (Re)Discovery and Validation of the Importance of Female Philosophers

One of the most formative courses of my graduate career has been taking a graduate seminar on moral psychology and philosophy, taught by Mike...

Phenomenological Communicologist Jacqueline Martinez, Vice President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association

Jacqueline M. Martinez was recently elected to be the Vice-President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. This means, as of 2024, she will be the...

Reports from Abroad: Dr. Hsiang-Yun Chen

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

Recently Published Book Spotlight: How to Be Authentic

Skye C. Cleary, who holds a Ph.D. and an M.B.A., is a philosopher and author who teaches at Columbia University and the City College of...

APA Member Interview: Chitranjan Greer-Travis

Chitranjan Greer-Travis is currently a doctoral student at the University of Toledo, Judith Herb College of Education. He is studying Social and Philosophical Foundations...

Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch on Insight and Attention

Sometimes when we’re trying to answer a question, it’s clear how we should go about addressing the question. Right at the outset, we can...

What Can’t Be Learned in School (“Working on the World”)

What is it to responsibly work on the world? Some college students want to know.