Yearly Archives: 2022

Sugar Babies: When “Feminism” Looks Like Online Misogyny

In 2019, the dating website Seeking.com reported having 365 University of Edinburgh students registered as members. Seeking.com is not just any dating platform. It’s...

Syllabus Showcase: Business Ethics, Cecilea Mun

To listen to audio recordings of Dr. Mun teaching Business Ethics click here, here and here. Some philosophers might regard an introductory business ethics course...

Does charitable Kant interpretation buttress Eurocentrism?

In this post, I want to raise a worry about Kant and Eurocentrism. As someone who writes about Kant, it’s a worry I’ve been...

APA Member Interview: Luca Gasparinetti

Luca Gasparinetti is a graduate student from Venice. He completely loves philosophy because it satisfies his voracious thirst for knowledge. Although Luca is currently...

Careers in Ontology: An Interview with Professor Barry Smith

In this interview, the Blog’s Philosophy and Technology Series Editor Charlie Taben interviews Barry Smith, who is a Distinguished Julian Park Professor of Philosophy and Professor...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: University of California, San Diego

UC San Diego’s philosophy club was originally a reading group within the Philosophy department. Led by selected students, the Undergraduate Reading Group quickly broadened...

Philosophical Pessimism: Varieties, Importance, and What to Do

This article is the first of five biweekly blog posts exploring philosophical pessimism and related positions. This piece is about philosophical pessimism. It is...

Navigating the Apocalypse

A variety of ancient religious and cultural texts warn us about an apocalypse whereby the world ends following some sort of disastrous event(s) incurred...

APA Member Interview: Will Gamrat

Will Gamrat is a second year Ph.D. student at University of Illinois-Chicago. His primary research interests are in the philosophy of mind and the...

A Philosopher’s Take on Effective (Non-Egoic) Activism

Billions of farmed animals are hurt and killed in terrible ways every year on factory farms around the world. Professional ethicists like myself are...

The Lost Women of Early Analytic Philosophy

As new histories of early analytic philosophy and its pre-history begin to appear, there is a striking absence of female names. For example, the...

The Importance of Meaningful Student Engagement in the Classroom: The See-Do-Teach Approach

“What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand.” “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember,...

Professors as Teachers: Two Tenure Cases

This post is the third of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work he suggests how departments...

Reports from Abroad: Dr. Krishna Mani Pathak (Part 1)

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

Is Housework a Sisyphean Struggle or a Way to Bring Joy to Our Lives?

Disclaimer: For the purposes of this blog article, the author aims to contrast the public life of men and the private life of women,...