Yearly Archives: 2023

2023
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Daniel Gaines

Alexis Labar -
Daniel Gaines is a graduate assistant pursuing his master’s in philosophy at Western Michigan University. Daniel’s philosophical interests are broad and include metaethics, moral...
Syllabus Showcase

Syllabus Showcase: Medieval Philosophy, Michael Wiitala

Smrutipriya Pattnaik -
Below is my syllabus for Medieval Philosophy at Cleveland State University. At Cleveland State, Medieval is a 200-level general education course that philosophy majors...
Graduate Student Reflection

My Experience With Heidegger

Mark Corson -
One of the most conceptually challenging courses I took before starting graduate studies was a course I took at the University of Iowa, taught...
Black Issues in Philosophy

Deloria’s God is Red and Liberationist Philosophies of Black Religion

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Vine Deloria Jr.’s God is Red: A Native View of Religion, which has recently been published in a...
Navigating (Living) Philosophy

Against Slickness

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
Looking back on thirty-five years in professional philosophy, the moments worth remembering are resolutely not slick.
Everyday Lifestyle

On Self-Deception and Self-Imposed Suffering

Laura Engel -
I don’t know when they became so popular, but in recent years I’ve noticed the proliferation of rustically framed mantras serving as home décor....
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Matthew Jones

Alexis Labar -
Matthew Jones grew up in a rural area with an active curiosity that left him interested in the wider world. This eventually led him...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

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

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

Merging Plato’s Education as Midwifery and Pop Culture Philosophy

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

Affirmative Action and the General Theory of the Second Best

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
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

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Citizen Knowledge

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
Lisa Herzog is Professor of Political Philosophy and Dean at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Netherlands. She has written on the philosophical...
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Kenneth Park

Alexis Labar -
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...
Professor Reflection Series

The Transformative Power of Philosophy

Samuel Taylor -
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...
Black Issues in Philosophy

Rising Up and Living on with Catherine Walsh

Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen -
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...
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Jared Jones

Alexis Labar -
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...
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