Monthly Archives: March, 2023

Justin Caouette: 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...

Syllabus Showcase: What is Philosophy? Global Perspectives on Philosophical History, Christopher P. Noble

I am a historian of philosophy at New College of Florida, a small, public liberal arts college. When I arrived first in 2018, one...

Frantz Fanon and the Politics of Truth

As a student, I was never introduced to the work of Martinican philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. I read Black Skin, White Masks and...

Dis-alienating Theory: On François Tosquelles, Frantz Fanon, and Political Theory by way of Camille Robcis’s Disalienation

Camille Robcis's Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France is a lively and timely intervention into a variety of fields. The book...

Fighting for Freedom with Philosophy: An Interview with A.J. Wendland

Aaron James Wendland is organizing a conference on the value of philosophy in light of the events in Ukraine during the last year. It...

Looking Back and Acting Out

Over 40 years ago, in Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality, Iris Marion Young gave us a...

Building Community and Trust During a Graduate Student Strike

There is this passage from Camus’s The Rebel that I taught to my students a couple of years ago and has stuck with me...

APA Member Interview: Michael Kirley

Michael Kirley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His primary research interests are in the philosophy...

Time as a Utensil

The following essay was published in The Philosopher, The New Basics. Society. Spring 2022. At the turn of the twentieth century, the way time was...

Gender Changes: Genderfluidity and Trans Possibilities

In a recent interview with the New York Times, Bella Ramsey remarked, “I guess my gender has always been very fluid,” explaining that he always...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College’s Philosophy Club has been active for at least 40 years. The origin of the club is lost in history but is...

Reports from Abroad: Dr. Getty Lee Lustila

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

The New Panopticon

With my work bringing me back in touch with public high school education, and as someone recently acquainted with a third decade of mostly...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Nussbaum’s Politics of Wonder

Wonder is the mind's excitement and proceeds by getting lost. And that is what democracy calls on us to do together.

APA Member Interview: Jeff Hawley

Jeff Hawley graduated from University of Arizona with a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies...