Yearly Archives: 2023

Responsibility and Automated Decision-Making

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...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: California State University, Fresno

Though we don’t know the exact year it was founded, Fresno State Philosophy Club has operated for over thirty years. Back in the 1990s,...

Understanding Neurodiversity, Unlearning Neuronormativity

April is autism acceptance month. Truly accepting autism requires both understanding neurodiversity and unlearning neuronormativity. The discussion that follows aims to provide some steps...

For Modernity: A Review of Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously delivers a clearly-articulated and well-supported defense of its eponymous thesis. It should come as no surprise...

Climate Targets and Moral Corruption

Imagine a parent–teacher conference. The teacher tells you your child is “on track” to graduate from high school. Relieved, you follow up: “Great! Can...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Phenomenology of Black Spirit

In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Biko Mandela Gray, Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University, and Ryan J. Johnson, Associate Professor of Philosophy...

APA Member Interview: Trevor Adams

Trevor Adams is a PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His primary research interests are epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion....

Inside the APA: Applying for APA Grants

One of the many ways the APA supports philosophers and helps address issues in the field is through grants. If you’re an APA member,...

Witches and ‘Welfare Queens’: The Construction of Women as Threats in the Anti-Abortion Movement

While today’s anti-abortion movement has been empowered by the recent fall of Roe v. Wade, the original ‘right-to-life’ movement dates to the mid-nineteenth century....

A Graduate Seminar With a Unique Topic: Teacher Training

It is not uncommon for graduate students in philosophy to be thrown into teaching without any formal training or preparation. This practice seems to...

The Neurotic Dogma of Reality

The world appears to be a certain way, but sometimes appearances are deceiving. This doesn’t seem to undermine what we think we know, for...

Reports from Abroad: Dr. Kranti Saran

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

Back to the Warm Home, Good Relationships, and Philosophy

Three years in, we stay true to the pulse underlying our philosophical work. Coming from memorable personal relationships, we end with free correspondence.

APA Member Interview: Rebeccah Leiby

Rebeccah Leiby is the Hoffberger Ethics Fellow at the University of Baltimore’s Hoffberger Center for Ethical Engagement (previously, the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics)....

Ableism and ChatGPT: Why People Fear It Versus Why They Should Fear It

Philosophers have been discouraging the use of ChatGPT and sharing ideas about how to make it harder for students to use this software to...