Yearly Archives: 2022

Vision for the Current Events in Public Philosophy Series

Ask someone what springs to mind when they think of a philosopher, and you’ll typically get one of three answers. First, they may paint...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Cognition and Practice

Rafal Banka is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Oxford in England. His areas of research include Chinese and Western...

APA Member Interview: Ollin Garcia Pliego

Ollin García Pliego (México) writes poetry and narrative, and is a Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. For his...

First Steps on the Rocky Path to Diversity and Inclusion in Cognitive Science

I was initially asked to develop an Intro to Cognitive Science course as an upper-level Liberal Studies Option for Degree students (majors) in a...

The Body Problem and the Climate Crisis

Students of Anglo-European philosophy might be familiar with the “mind-body problem.” The problem originates with early seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, who...

Expanding the Canon Through Storytelling: A Pedagogically Queer Approach

For much of philosophy’s past, the canon has been exclusively favorable to those whom society privileged. Think of any philosopher whose name you may...

Reports from Abroad: Dr. Krishna Mani Pathak (Part 2)

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

Think What Academia Does to People: Beauvoir contra Precarity

Under what conditions can your academic work be meaningful? De Beauvoir has an unsettling and extreme answer.

APA Member Interview: Mariana Gomez

Mariana Gomez is a Ph.D. student at Georgetown University studying Latina feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, and decolonial philosophy. As a first-generation college...

The Faces of Death: More than a Macabre Rite of Passage

Last year it was announced that the gruesome cult classic, Faces of Death (1978), would be remade by the team responsible for the film...

Of Validity, Soundness, and Sarah Palin as a Russian Spy: A Critical Thinking Lesson.

I employ a segment from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart titled “From Russia with Gov” (2011 season) in my critical thinking class to...

A Pessimism Primer

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

Strong Black Nihilism and Existential Maturity: On Devon Johnson

Some books are so rich that it is difficult to articulate an entry point for discussion; any choice of a starting point seems to...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Why Machines Will Never Rule the World

In this video interview, Charlie Taben, editor of the Blog's Philosophy and Technology series, interviews the authors of Why Machines Will Never Rule the...

Audrey Yap: What is it Like to Be a Philosopher?

The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What is it Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...