Yearly Archives: 2023

Rage Against the Machine

Reactive emotional responses to machines are a commonplace in our lives. I get angry at the Kroger checkout machines when they never register the item...

Children’s Mental Health, Institutional Gaslighting, and Mother-Blame

There is a class action lawsuit against Iowa over failure to provide legally-required and medically necessary mental health services for Medicaid-eligible children. As a...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: UMass Boston

The Philosophy Club at UMass Boston has been meeting since the 1980s. As far back as the mid-1990s, the club has met weekly. The...

Reports from Abroad: Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen

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

Reflections on the Gamification of Fitness

According to any number of game designers, psychologists, and journalists, our lives are becoming increasingly gamified. Gamification, or “the use of game design elements...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Rules of Rescue

Theron Pummer is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He works on issues in ethics and metaphysics and has...

APA Member Interview: Kellan Head

Kellan Head is a Ph.D. student at Syracuse University. His interests are largely metaethical: Kellan’s research primarily examines normativity and the nature of value,...

What Does It Mean to Be a Race in a Loving World?: Healing the Wounds of Racism in the Philosophy Classroom

In this post, I will reflect on my experience in the Critical Philosophy of Race class I took with Jackie Scott at Loyola University...

The Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2023 Award Winners

The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2023 recipients of the association’s awards for contributions to philosophical thought, literature, mentorship, and best...

Cultivation of Character for Ethical Leadership: The Transformative Goal of Leadership Education at Culver Academies

Susan Freymiller deVillier, Master Instructor and Chairperson in the Department of Leadership Education, connects with a student in class at Culver Academies. In the fall...

GRIEF-SPUN WISDOM IN THE DIRT: Of Popular Death Practices

A conversation about dirt becomes a discussion of death, grief, and philosophy.

APA Member Interview: Eric Shoemaker

Eric Shoemaker is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. His primary research interests are in democratic theory and the philosophy of law,...

R. Lanier Anderson elected next APA board chair

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that at its meeting last fall, the APA board of officers elected Prof. R. Lanier Anderson...

Nope’s Social Demons

In an interview that has gone viral in several places, Jordan Peele stated that he had five films planned on what he referred to...

Simone de Beauvoir and “Women’s Work”

1. Crisis of Reproduction In the short film, Loin du 16e (Far from the 16th), Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas evocatively portray what we might identify...