Monthly Archives: September, 2023

APA Member Interview: Casey Scott

Casey Scott is a graduate student at the University of Iowa. He is interested in Kant, Social/Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, and Philosophy of...

Unimaginable Time

Buried in an arctic mountainside in Norway is the Global Music Vault, a digital data storage facility that is designed to preserve selections of...

The Problem Spaces of Public Philosophy

I often ask myself what I hope to accomplish when I engage in public philosophy. How is this mode of address distinct from the...

Suppose AI Publishes in Phil Review. What Then?

Suppose AI just published in the Philosophical Review. What does this mean for the future of our field? Nothing. In late August 2022, a generative AI...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Fordham University

The Fordham Philosophers’ Society, commonly known on campus as “PhilSoc,” began as a typical, yet uneventful undergraduate philosophy club. The association, originally founded in...

Learning to Live, Not Just to Think: How Philosophy is Changing Lives at Notre Dame

This post is an abridged version of a paper in a special issue of AAPT Studies in Pedagogy. That paper was co-authored by Evan...

Charles Johnson’s All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End

Charles Johnson is likely most well-known as a novelist, having won the National Book Award for The Middle Passage (1990) and later earning a...

Medical Records and Epistemic Injustice: A Women’s Health Issue Worthy of Greater Attention

Issues of ethical interest related to ‘women’s health’ abound: from the battle for reproductive rights and the promises and pitfalls of the emerging fem-tech...

Eastern APA Secretary-Treasurer Retrospective

From 2017 until January 2023, I served in the role of Eastern Division Secretary-Treasurer (S-T). It’s not a particularly well-known role, though anyone who...

Decolonizing Philosophy: The Contributions of Françoise Vergès

The call to decolonize philosophy is growing, and while this is a dense and robust demand, a vital maneuver of this commitment is to...

Syllabus Showcase: Introduction to Global Philosophy

Introductory courses can have a variety of legitimate goals, depending on the type of institution at which one teaches and the students one has,...

Are We Talking About Writing the Right Way?

If your grad student or department parties are anything like mine, then you talk about writing a ton; what we’re writing, what we’re procrastinating writing, and...

Teaching the Uninterested

Why are some students uninterested in philosophy and what can be done about it? That was the theme of our panel discussion at Oklahoma...

Reports From Abroad: Dr. Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach

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

Isolation and Madness

On July 1st, 1969, Donald Crowhurst wrote in his logbook titled “Philosophy:” “It is the time for your move to begin / I have not...