Yearly Archives: 2023

Meet the APA: Heather Battaly

Heather Battaly is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, having previously taught at California State University Fullerton. She works on epistemology,...

A Feminist Critique of Moral Particularism

Moral Particularism In metaethics, moral particularism is the view that moral reasoning is too context-sensitive to be guided by overarching principles. Traditional work in ethics...

Syllabus Showcase: Introduction to Philosophy, Samuel A. Taylor

I’ve been teaching Introduction to Philosophy at Tuskegee University for approximately five years. The course helps fulfill a general education requirement and, while we...

Effective Online Teaching

The underpinning of education is that teachers help students. Whether we are called teachers, instructors, faculty, professors, or facilitators, this is the essence of...

Iran’s Woman Life Freedom Movement and the Critique of Mandatory Hijab

One year has passed since the tragic death of Mahsa Jina Amina at the hands of Iran’s morality police. Her death became the beginning...

APA Member Interview: Zeinab Rabii

Zeinab Rabii is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Missouri–Columbia. As a solo instructor, she has taught different courses on ethics...

What Hegel Has to Teach Us about AI

This essay was previously published July 6th, 2023 in The New Statesman In the summer of 2022, engineer Blake Lemoine posted to Medium a transcript of his...

Undergraduate Philosophy Club: The University of North Carolina

UNC’s Philosophy Club emerged a few years ago in conjunction with the dissolution of our Phi Sigma Tau honors society chapter. It was founded...

James Africanus Beale Horton: Racism and the Fate of Naturalism in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology

There has been a recent increase in interest in the place of race in the writings of modern canonical European philosophers (e.g., in Locke,...

Subscribe to the Blog’s new Substack

Don’t worry, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association isn’t going anywhere. However, we are offering a new way for readers to connect with...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Games: Agency as Art

C. Thi Nguyen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. He works in social epistemology, aesthetics, practical reasoning, and value theory,...

Beyond Neutrality: Rethinking Scholarly Engagement in Global Governance

In an era fraught with moral and political crises, the importance of scholars becomes more evident. What is interesting is how scholars from the...

Making an Impact: APA Committee Service

As you’ve likely seen in emails, website announcements, and social media posts recently, we are currently in the midst of the APA’s open nominations...

Syllabus Showcase: Ethics of Data Science

The summer before my arrival at Purdue, I was asked to teach a version of Intermediate Ethics of Data Science, having never done it...

New Series Editor: Philosophical Reflections From an Intelligence Analyst

When I was recently invited to volunteer as a Series Editor for the American Philosophical Association, I didn’t question whether I have the proper...