Monthly Archives: January, 2024

The Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2024 Award Winners

The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the Frantz Fanon, Nicolas Guillén, and Claudia Jones awards for contributions to philosophical...

New OUP Prize for Teaching with Technology Announced

The American Philosophical Association and Oxford University Press are pleased to announce the establishment of a new prize recognizing outstanding use of technology in...

Heather Browning: What is it Like to be a Philosopher?

The APA blog is working with Cliff Sosis of What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? in publishing advance excerpts from Cliff’s long-form interviews with...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Lost in Ideology

Jason Blakely is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University in California. His writing often straddles the divides of academic and popular. He...

Choosing a Specialty: Charles Lassiter’s Study of Academic Philosophy Positions

Charles Lassiter, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University, has made available on his website the results of a study he undertook to identify...

Reflections on Teaching in the AI Age

I kind of miss plagiarism. Some turn of phrase in a student’s paper would sound a bit off, and some googling would uncover that...

Tough-Soft

My grandmother drank her coffee out of a teacup. It was a ritual. Every morning she would put a heaping spoonful of Folgers instant coffee into...

The Research and Diversity/Inclusiveness Beats Seek New Editors

The APA Blog is looking for volunteer, remote Series Editors for its Research and Diversity & Inclusiveness Beats. We are looking for editors to...

Meet the APA: Becko Copenhaver

Becko Copenhaver is Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. She studies the philosophy of mind and the history of...

APA Member Interview: Paul J. Kelly

Paul J. Kelly is pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His primary areas of philosophical interest are the philosophy of...

Syllabus Showcase: The Philosophy of Education, Kristopher G. Phillips

Part of what I love about teaching philosophy is that it affords me the opportunity to take things that students find familiar or banal...

Tendayi Sithole’s Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology in Azania

Mabogo Percy More is a philosopher who describes his work as “Azanian Africana existential philosophy” (110). Born in 1946, More was one of the...

APA Member Interview: Marybel Menzies

Marybel Menzies is a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto. Her areas of specialization are philosophy of mind and value theory. She is...

If We’re Living in a Simulation, The Gods Might Be Crazy

This essay was originally published in Slate. That we’re living in a computer simulation—it sounds like a paranoid fantasy. But it’s a possibility that futurists,...

What is Decolonial Aesthesis? Art and Aesthetics at the Margins

‘The word “aesthetics” is reinvented by decolonial movements as a critique of the repressive mechanisms of colonial “beauty” associated with this term. It is...