Monthly Archives: September, 2023

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Care

Todd May teaches philosophy at Warren Wilson College and is the author of seventeen books on philosophy, including Death, A Significant Life: Human Meaning in...

APA Member Interview: Holly Wilson

Holly Wilson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Louisiana State University at Alexandria. She calls herself a Kantian and a Carmelite...

What’s wrong with falsehoods in (fiction) film?

Google the phrase “inaccurate documentaries” and you will discover numerous sites triumphantly condemning the falsehoods in lists of culpable films, from Nanook of the...

How to Teach How to Write: Empowering Students to Take Ownership of the English Language

I love the craft of writing and I love teaching the craft of writing. But for the past few years, my love has grown...

Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Database: What We Found

We have been part of efforts to launch the Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative (3PI), a new project supported by the American Philosophical Association...

Meditations on Africatown, Part 2: On Cultivating Liberatory Fields of Vision

Part one of this post can be found here. I visited the Africatown Heritage House for the first time a short while ago. The new...

Can We Get Better at Enjoying Art?

I always bring earplugs when I go to an art museum. My friend puts on an eye mask before listening to an anticipated album...

Meet the APA: Andy Cullison

Andrew Cullison is currently the founding executive director of the Cincinnati Ethics Center, which launched at the University of Cincinnati in January 2022. Prior...

Upcoming Ethical and Responsible Research Webinar

Lead image: © This is Engineering Jason Borenstein is the Director of the National Science Foundation’s Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) Program. Jason will be participating...

Putting Gender Back into Transgender Equality: On Iglesias v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

Author’s Note: This article discusses sexual and physical violence targeting incarcerated trans women. Amid the ongoing wave of anti-trans legislation in the U.S., it can...

Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy of Science (Without Mentioning Logical Positivism, Popper, or Kuhn), Joel Katzav

Standard philosophy of science courses tells us that philosophy of science emerged in the US as a result of the arrival of the Logical...

Is It Hubris to Think We Matter?

You have probably heard a talk in which a well-meaning speaker showed the audience photos of distant galaxies. The universe is vast, and the...

Taking Teaching More Seriously

In a generous review of my recent book Professors as Teachers, Martin Benjamin supports most of its major contentions, yet he finds outdated my...

Navigating (Living) Philosophy: (Re)Philosophizing Race/ism, Humanity, & Journeying to the Future

This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalised shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Biomimicry Revolution

Henry Dicks is an environmental philosopher who specializes in the philosophical aspects of biomimicry and learning from nature. His recent work, The Biomimicry Revolution: Learning...