Yearly Archives: 2023

APA Member Interview: Eugene Y.S. Chua

Eugene Y.S. Chua is a philosopher of science and physics. As a recent graduate of UC San Diego, he is currently a postdoc at...

Inside the APA: Paper Submissions and Program Diversity

The annual meetings of the divisions of the APA are the largest generalist philosophy conferences serving our membership. To be truly generalist, they must...

Syllabus Showcase: Racial Justice and Philosophy

My specialization is the philosophy of race, post-colonial philosophy, feminism, and womanism. I developed this course at the request of my students and for...

Find Your People

When I expressed my trouble making connections with professors and graduate students during my first year, my mentor told me, “find your people.” I...

Appreciating the Forest from the Trees

Why do species matter? Many have instrumental value. Some, for instance, are indicator species (e.g. freshwater mussels), some are keystone species (e.g. sea otters (Enhydra lutris)),...

Why Black Women’s Affect?

For the proposal of my final paper for one of my classes, I decided I wanted to write about Black women’s affect, embodiment, and...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Images of the Present Time

Kenneth Reinhard is Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at UCLA and a longtime translator of the work of the French philosopher Alain...

APA Member Interview: Juan Carlos Mora

Juan Carlos Mora is a graduate student in the Philosophy Department at George Washington University, pursuing an M.A. in Philosophy and Social Policy. He...

Not all Films are Fiction Films

What is actually going on in the cinema is that you are sitting in a comfortable chair, in a darkened room? Let’s say you...

Gender Dysphoria and Why Wanting is Enough

Earlier this year the British Medical Journal tweeted asking why there has been no “constructive dialogue” about gender dysphoria. Abigail Thorn, a well-known trans...

The Importance of Professor Reflections on Teaching

I’m excited to start as the new Series Editor for the Professor Reflection Series for The Blog of the APA. The series serves as...

Why we can’t resolve the scientific realism debate—and why we should believe in science anyway

Philosophical works about scientific realism often point to public trust in science as a key motivating consideration. The intuitive idea is that if we...

Cultivation Requirements: Teaching Virtue Ethics for Whole-Child Education

This post was first published on plato-philosophy.org and is reprinted here with permission.  I teach ethics and leadership in the Department of Leadership Education at...

Meet the APA: Richard Bett

Richard Bett is Professor of Philosophy, with a secondary appointment in Classics, at Johns Hopkins University, where he has worked since 1991. His scholarly...

Finding Meaning in Moving: My Experiences as an Aussie Grad Student

Whether I would pursue graduate education was never a question for me, it was always more of a question of what subject I would...