Yearly Archives: 2022

2022
Teaching

Did You Get the Memo? Marx, Alienation, and Office Space

William Parkhurst -
Few comedies depict the banal, Kafkaesque day-to-day of working life as well as Mike Judge’s 1999 film Office Space. When teaching Marx on the...
Recently Published Book Spotlight

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Antigone in the Americas

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
Andrés Fabián Henao Castro is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research broadly seeks to rethink the relationship between...
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Austin Fuller

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Austin Fuller is a student of philosophy that is particularly interested in the philosophy of art and aesthetics, but is really interested in too...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Charles Mills: On Seeing and Naming the Whiteness of Philosophy

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
This post was originally published on The Philosopher as part of a series of essays and interviews on the life and philosophy of Charles...
Public Philosophy

Should We Embrace Nature as a God?

APA Blog -
Can treating nature as a God be a solution to the problems of the climate crisis, or is that likely to cause even more...
Issues in Philosophy

Professors as Teachers: Criteria for Awarding Tenure

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
This post is the second of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work he suggests how departments...
Black Issues in Philosophy

The Five Lives of Raya Dunayevskaya: Sources of Intersectional Marxism

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
The history of women thinkers is marked by enforced obsolescence, especially once male counterparts start working in the same terrain. Think of Hypatia or...
Starting Out in Philosophy

Dig in and Look Beyond Appearances: Campus Politics Lacks Community

Katherine Cassese -
Katherine speaks to her old friend Nora about what political engagement on campus lacks, online politics, and helping to make our communities work.
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Mike Gadomski

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Mike Gadomski is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, working in political philosophy and meta-political philosophy. Born...
Public Philosophy

Postdigital Film as Philosophy of Praxis

Shane Ralston -
The Rebirth of Satire I recently received Shane Ralston’s invitation to write ‘a treatment of a single film, classic or contemporary, from any philosophical...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Incomplete Categories and Peripheries of Thought: Where is Philosophy From?

Adriel M. Trott -
Some time since I moved to the United States, my home country, Turkey, shifted its geographic location, and so did my relation to the...
Issues in Philosophy

Professors as Teachers: In Defense of Tenure

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
This post is the first of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work, he suggests how departments...
Public Philosophy

On Finding Common Ground

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
So-called “affective polarization” (Iyengar & Westwood, 2015)—deep antagonism between outgroup members—is a pressing contemporary issue. Affectively polarized individuals are often incapable of cooperating, engaging...
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Sophia F. Gao

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Sophia F. Gao is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, where her research is guided by philosophers...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Land Acknowledgements and Trans Philosophy: What are we Compelled to Do?

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
“It’s one thing to say, ‘Hey, we’re on the territory of the Mississaugas or the Anishinaabek and the Haudenosaunee.’ It’s another thing to say,...
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