Rachel Keith is a graduate student at University of Southern California focusing on ethics and social philosophy. In her free time, she enjoys hiking...
“I shall be derelict. I leave methods to the botanists and the mathematicians. There is a point at which methods devour themselves.”
Frantz Fanon, Black...
Michelle Crabb is the IT and Operations Coordinator for the APA. She has a Bachelor’s of Information Technology from Armstrong Atlantic State University (now...
Michael Broz is a doctoral candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research is focused on social relations and social ontology, specifically drawing from...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦBK) are pleased to announce that Dr. Kristie Dotson, University Diversity and Social...
The famous militant feminist slogan from the 1970s, “the future is female,” experienced a resurgence recently following signs of the rolling back of important...
In theory, philosophy can be about anything. In practice, this is mostly fantasy. Philosophy is today as specialized a discipline as any other, which...
Does the aesthetic value of species give us reason to work to prevent extinctions? Our own aesthetic preferences seem hopelessly biased. We love big...
A recent tweet marveling at the accomplishments of new Philosophy Ph.D. students currently on the market has provoked some strong feelings. The tweet makes...
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...
In 1979, an IBM presentation included a slide with the following injunction:
Despite this warning, nearly fifty years later computing systems are increasingly used to...
