Yearly Archives: 2023

My Body, Not My Choice: The Complicated Ethics of Abortion

Editor's note: This post is part of the Blog of the APA's continued engagement with arguments related to the topic of abortion. Posts providing alternative...

Philosophy as a Team Sport

You’re having coffee with a colleague, and you mention a kernel of an idea you’ve been playing with. Your colleague responds, and their response...

Chat GPT and Student Writing: Some Practical Reflections

ChatGPT: What it is, how it works, the challenge it presents Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is an AI text generator that uses a large language...

No Skin in the Language Game

Image Source: https://pixabay.com/photos/oxford-england-great-britain-city-2361239/ One of the aspects of my undergraduate education that I found most disappointing was the orientation toward philosophy of my fellow truth-seekers....

APA Member Interview: Troy Seagraves

Troy Seagraves is a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Purdue University, entering his fifth year in the program. His research is in metaethics and...

Syllabus Showcase: The Buddhist Traditions, Purushottama Bilimoria

In some ways this is a standard course on Buddhist Philosophy & Religion. The title Buddhist Tradition (I expanded it to Traditions) was given...

Drucilla Cornell, in Memoriam

The following is a revised reflection of a post on Drucilla Cornell for the Frantz Fanon Foundation. It is posted here because of the...

Approaching Philosophy

This series invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalized shapes of and encounters within philosophy. The series collects experience-based explorations...

Syllabus Showcase: Philosophy as Conversation, Matt Deaton

Taking an oral-concentration philosophy class to avoid Public Speaking is like enrolling in Astrophysics to bypass Algebra. Yet misguided students do exactly that every...

Growing Older and The Value of Intergenerational Bonds

For old age to be understood differently, our whole life needs rethinking. And so, too, the philosophy that is humanly satisfying.

APA Member Interview: Cara S. Greene

Cara S. Greene is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. She’s a recipient of the 2022–2023 Bilinski fellowship and...

The Coming Robot Rights Catastrophe

Time to be a doomsayer! If technology continues on its current trajectory, we will soon be facing a moral catastrophe. We will create AI systems...

Is Writing for Robots?

Ada opens her eyes at the designated time in the morning. She looks out her open window and notices that the sun is shining....

Gender Together: Identity, Community, and the Politics of Sincerity

Around 11:55 pm on Saturday, November 19, 2022—just moments before midnight on National Transgender Day of Remembrance—someone walked into Club Q, a queer nightclub...

Undergraduate Philosophy Clubs: Kenyon College and Capital University (Re)Create Department Culture and Community

This will be an important year for your philosophy department’s culture.  Current seniors at four-year, undergraduate, residential institutions, have not had a typical college experience....