Monthly Archives: November, 2023

Edith Stein: multi-species empathy, being-toward-extinction, and collective grief

My interest in the philosophy of Edith Stein arose while I was teaching a philosophy course on death where the final third of the...

Merging Plato’s Education as Midwifery and Pop Culture Philosophy

Ever since I was offered a teaching position as an adjunct junior faculty of Philosophy a couple of months after graduation, I have always...

Affirmative Action and the General Theory of the Second Best

Philosophers have a habit of approaching political problems in a certain way. They start by imagining a perfectly just world, then suggest ways of...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Citizen Knowledge

Lisa Herzog is Professor of Political Philosophy and Dean at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Netherlands. She has written on the philosophical...

APA Member Interview: Kenneth Park

Kenneth Park was rescued from the counterculture of the 1960s by philosophy, especially by Sartre and Nietzsche. In high school, he was Advanced Placement, but...

The Transformative Power of Philosophy

Democrat or Republican? Pro-life or pro-choice? Back the blue or defund the police? Support drag shows or homophobic ideas? News, social media, and laypeople...

Rising Up and Living on with Catherine Walsh

Catherine E. Walsh’s Rising Up, Living On: Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks (Duke UP, 2023) is, on the one hand, a report on the...

APA Member Interview: Jared Jones

Jared Jones is a doctoral student at Columbia University. His research interests include 19th-and 20th-Century German philosophy and Spinoza, his primary focus being on Hegel. He...

Early Feminist Critiques of Kant’s Gendered Ideal of Human Progress

I am currently working on a book that examines how the gendered nature of Kant’s vision of the Enlightenment was challenged by several female...

In defense of scientifically and philosophically (not politically) critiquing neurobiological theories of consciousness

On September 16th, an open letter signed by a group of 124 researchers labeled the integrated information theory (IIT) of consciousness pseudoscience. As Nature...

APA Member Interview: Miguel Ángel G. Calderón

Miguel Ángel G. Calderón (known on the internet as @miguelangelgc) is the CEO of Filosofía en la Red, one of the most important platforms for philosophical...

Quantum Physics Reveals the Unity of the Universe

This article was originally published on August 23rd, 2023 in the online magazine of the Institute of Art and Ideas: https://iai.tv/articles. This essay is...

What Did the Opponents of Affirmative Action Get Wrong About Affirmative Action?

Affirmative action aims not just to repair the historical injustices that are sexism, slavery, and racism (and, to some extent, colonialism) but also aims...

Collective Memory at Canada’s Prison for Women

What does it mean to remember a past you did not experience personally, but which haunts the place where you live and the people...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: University of Alabama at Birmingham

The Student Fellowship of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, colloquially known as Philosophy Club, was revived in 2022 after a brief...