Yearly Archives: 2022

2022
Black Issues in Philosophy

Revealing Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
Margaret A. Burnham’s poignant, innovative, and meticulously researched book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, brings to the fore an open American...
Issues in Philosophy

Remembering Bruno Latour and His Contributions to Philosophy

Nathan Eckstrand -
With the death of Bruno Latour from cancer on October 9, the world lost a prominent and paradoxical figure whose deepest contributions are not...
Teaching

Neutrality and the Politicized Classroom

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
In his book Varieties of Academic Freedom, Stanley Fish argues that academic work should be free of politics. Capturing well the impatience of critics...
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Ana Gomez

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Ana Gomez is a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at Purdue University. In her undergraduate studies, she majored both in Law and Philosophy and became...
Syllabus Showcase

Syllabus Showcase: Perspectives on Work and Leisure, Mark Coppenger

Matt Deaton -
Back around 1980, when I was a philosophy professor at Wheaton College in Illinois, I introduced a course on work and leisure, and, in...
Research

More Than Species-Relative Goodness: What Children Teach Us

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
Over a decade ago, I was introduced to the works of Philippa Foot in a graduate seminar. I would not have predicted then that...
Teaching

Teaching an Accelerated Online Course

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
The Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Montclair State University provides full-time students with the option to complete their degree in an...
Issues in Philosophy

Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Letter to Beginning Philosophy Students

alicehank winham -
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...
On Congeniality

What Do We Do When We Talk about “Evil”?

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer -
Talk about “evil” is beside the point.
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Manuela Gomez

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Manuela A. Gomez is a professor of philosophy at El Paso Community College. She has over 17 years of teaching experience on both sides...
Philosophy and Technology

Wittgenstein, Feynman, and the Limits of Intuition and Objectivity in Quantum Theory

Charlie Taben -
Richard Feynman, over the course of his long career, wanted to convince students and even the public that quantum theory does not make sense....
Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy

Ethics Bowl for an Uncivil World

Rachel Robison-Greene -
The world is too much with us late and soon... —William Wordsworth When Wordsworth wrote these words, he was concerned that the world was increasingly encroaching...
Teaching

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Roanoke College

Mia Wood -
The Roanoke College Philosophy Club was started in 2015 at the request of several students who wanted a place to continue philosophical discussions in...
Research

Can Pessimists be Political?

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
This post is a part of an ongoing biweekly series on philosophical pessimism and related positions. You can find other posts in the series...
Black Issues in Philosophy

A Simple Argument for Why Science Should Be for the Oppressed

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
Co-Editor’s Note: I composed the following short essay for an asynchronous online summer course in Philosophy of Science. The course is centered around presenting...
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