Yearly Archives: 2023

2023
Public Philosophy

Fighting for Freedom with Philosophy: An Interview with A.J. Wendland

Nathan Eckstrand -
Aaron James Wendland is organizing a conference on the value of philosophy in light of the events in Ukraine during the last year. It...
Current Events in Public Philosophy

Looking Back and Acting Out

Richard B. Gibson -
Over 40 years ago, in Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality, Iris Marion Young gave us a...
Issues in Philosophy

Building Community and Trust During a Graduate Student Strike

APA Blog -
There is this passage from Camus’s The Rebel that I taught to my students a couple of years ago and has stuck with me...
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Michael Kirley

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Michael Kirley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His primary research interests are in the philosophy...
Philosophy and Technology

Time as a Utensil

Charlie Taben -
The following essay was published in The Philosopher, The New Basics. Society. Spring 2022. At the turn of the twentieth century, the way time was...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Gender Changes: Genderfluidity and Trans Possibilities

Alida Liberman -
In a recent interview with the New York Times, Bella Ramsey remarked, “I guess my gender has always been very fluid,” explaining that he always...
Teaching

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Mount Holyoke College

Mia Wood -
Mount Holyoke College’s Philosophy Club has been active for at least 40 years. The origin of the club is lost in history but is...
Reports from Abroad

Reports from Abroad: Dr. Getty Lee Lustila

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

The New Panopticon

Stephen Williams -
With my work bringing me back in touch with public high school education, and as someone recently acquainted with a third decade of mostly...
Recently Published Book Spotlight

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Nussbaum’s Politics of Wonder

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
Wonder is the mind's excitement and proceeds by getting lost. And that is what democracy calls on us to do together.
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Jeff Hawley

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall -
Jeff Hawley graduated from University of Arizona with a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies...
Graduate Student Reflection

What Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone Taught Me About Teaching

Alexis Labar -
Last semester I took a seminar with Renée Jorgensen on moral rights and social norms. One of the main questions we discussed throughout the...
Research

Myside Bias, Social Media, and the Malaise of Democratic Deliberation

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
For at least four U.S. presidential cycles, those involved and concerned with the American political landscape have lamented the threats to, as well as...
Black Issues in Philosophy

Meditations on Africatown, Part 1: Sensing Reality

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
Editor’s Note: What follows is the first in an intended series of reflections by the author on experiences in the undertaking of a research...
Issues in Philosophy

Doctoral Program Attrition

Nathan Eckstrand -
Anyone who has earned a philosophy PhD in the US or Canada knows that not everyone who enters doctoral programs completes them. Even students...