Yearly Archives: 2022

APA Member Interview: Janelle Allyson Gormley

Janelle Allyson Tandoc Gormley is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Her research includes, but is not limited to, the...

Bo Burnham’s Inside and the Foucauldian Ethics of the Self

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Irony and Analogy: Uncovering Implicit Biases – Wanda Sykes on the Opioid Health Crisis

In the following, comedian Wanda Sykes wonders why African Americans have suffered much less, if at all, from the current opioid health crisis. Ironically,...

Norwegian Pessimistic Anti-Natalism

This post is a part of an ongoing biweekly series on philosophical pessimism and related positions. You can find other posts in the series...

Sylvia Wynter and the Concept of the Homocene

What—or who—is responsible for the state of the planet? The “or who” suggests a distinction between two types of responsibility. One we may term...

Navigating (Living) Philosophy: From Black Experience to a Philosophy of Freedom

This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalised shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...

Dissertating Like a Distance Runner: Ten Tips for Finishing Your PhD

The above photo is of Sir Mo Farah running past Buckingham Palace into the home stretch of the London Marathon. I took the photo...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Making Space for Justice

Michele Moody-Adams is Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University, and the author of Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality,...

APA Member Interview: Jesse Gray

Jesse Gray is an early career researcher studying shifting responsibilities among healthcare professionals and patients with the introduction of mobile health technologies. You can...

Germaine de Staël’s Philosophy and Politics

The canon of the history of philosophy has been repeatedly criticized for its lack of diversity by Eileen O’Neill, Charles Mills, and others. In...

Violence Against Asian Women: The Enduring Legacy of 1875 Page Act

On March 21, 2021, eight people were murdered as a man drove across the Atlanta metro area attacking massage parlors owned or operated by...

Syllabus Showcase: Ignorance, Distraction, and Confusion, Georgi Gardiner

We started the semester in ignorance, we ended with confusion, and there was lots of distraction along the way. That was the overarching structure...

Woman, Life, Freedom: When Dress Codes Kill

Our younger daughter traveled to Israel with a group of teenagers in July 2021, the summer before their senior year of high school. The...

APA Member Interview: Luke Goleman

Luke Golemon is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Arizona. He works primarily on ethics of all flavors, but has been drawn...

Climate Change and the Extended Self

Climate change represents a singular challenge for humanity. However, social attitudes on the topic seem to differ by age. Pew Research Center reports that,...