Monthly Archives: February, 2023

Well-Informed About Misinformation

Misinformation. Disinformation. Fake research. Fake news. Nowadays, these terms are everywhere. Misinformation, in its various guises, seems to threaten every aspect of our lives:...

APA Member Interview: Andriy Bilenkyy

Andriy Bilenkyy is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Department of Philosophy. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of...

Technology and Aesthetic Meaning

“…the future of man as his will, as dependent on a human will…so as to make an end of that gruesome dominion of chance...

Rage Against the Machine

Reactive emotional responses to machines are a commonplace in our lives. I get angry at the Kroger checkout machines when they never register the item...

Children’s Mental Health, Institutional Gaslighting, and Mother-Blame

There is a class action lawsuit against Iowa over failure to provide legally-required and medically necessary mental health services for Medicaid-eligible children. As a...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: UMass Boston

The Philosophy Club at UMass Boston has been meeting since the 1980s. As far back as the mid-1990s, the club has met weekly. The...

Reports from Abroad: Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen

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

Reflections on the Gamification of Fitness

According to any number of game designers, psychologists, and journalists, our lives are becoming increasingly gamified. Gamification, or “the use of game design elements...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Rules of Rescue

Theron Pummer is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He works on issues in ethics and metaphysics and has...

APA Member Interview: Kellan Head

Kellan Head is a Ph.D. student at Syracuse University. His interests are largely metaethical: Kellan’s research primarily examines normativity and the nature of value,...

What Does It Mean to Be a Race in a Loving World?: Healing the Wounds of Racism in the Philosophy Classroom

In this post, I will reflect on my experience in the Critical Philosophy of Race class I took with Jackie Scott at Loyola University...