Yearly Archives: 2023

Planning a Successful Academic Conference

One of the very first conferences that I presented for when I was a graduate student at Montclair State University was the Mid-Atlantic Region...

The Fine-Tuning Argument Against the Multiverse

The Fine-Tuning Argument Against the Multiverse A striking phenomenon uncovered by contemporary physics is that the values of the fundamental parameters of nature, such as...

“Swing on, Swing On”: Blue Note Hope and JID’s Forever Story

Black American music has a long tradition of keeping hope alive. W.E.B. Du Bois highlighted the importance of the “sorrow song”—the “rhythmic cry of...

Meet the APA: Erin Shepherd

This APA Blog series is designed to help APA members to get to know APA staff and key leaders a little better. Two staff...

What It’s Like to be a Philosopher

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...

The Virtuous Image: Femininity and Portraiture on the Internet

Images of bodies impact young people, especially young girls and women. The normative implications of those images—what a body ought to look like and...

Positive Propaganda: Dave Chappelle and his White Buddy “Chip”

This video highlights, via humorous understatement in a brief narrative, the very different experiences white and black people often have with the police. An...

Conference Coverage: Political Epistemology Network

This post is a part of the Blog's 2023 APA Conference coverage, showcasing the research of APA members across the country. The APA Eastern...

Navigating (Living) Philosophy: Playing in a Rigged Game

Dear Green BIPOC Philosophers, Thank you for having a mustard seed’s worth of faith that philosophy can diversify and for tenaciously continuing to show up....

Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy on the Spectrum: The Philosophy of Autism and Autistic Philosophy, Travis LaCroix

Some have suggested that the “very idea of an autistic person is a philosophical one” (Murray 2011, 9) and that the “subject of autism...

Philosophy and Work: Helping Students Conceptualize Their Careers

Ask a student why they’re in college and their answer will most likely include something about securing a well-paying job, expanding their career options,...

Justin Caouette: What is it like to be a philosopher?

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...

Syllabus Showcase: What is Philosophy? Global Perspectives on Philosophical History, Christopher P. Noble

I am a historian of philosophy at New College of Florida, a small, public liberal arts college. When I arrived first in 2018, one...

Frantz Fanon and the Politics of Truth

As a student, I was never introduced to the work of Martinican philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. I read Black Skin, White Masks and...

Dis-alienating Theory: On François Tosquelles, Frantz Fanon, and Political Theory by way of Camille Robcis’s Disalienation

Camille Robcis's Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France is a lively and timely intervention into a variety of fields. The book...