Monthly Archives: May, 2024

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Rapture

Christopher Hamilton is Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London. He believes that philosophy begins in everyday experience with the problems and difficulties we...

Tradwife Aesthetic: When Being the Beauvoirian Other Reemerges as a Social Media Trend

If you have been on social media for the past few years, you might have encountered a particular type of content that transports us...

George Yancy and Judith Butler: Universities Have Failed Their Democratic Mission by Repressing Gaza Protests

This article originally appeared on truthout.org As two U.S. philosophers, we feel compelled to bring our experience and perspective to bear on the current crisis...

What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher: Sam Woolfe

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...

Responses to Liberalism, Alexis Dianda

Responses to Liberalism is both an elective in Xavier’s Department of Philosophy and one of a series of political philosophy courses in an interdisciplinary...

The Cosmos: Black Like Me

When Brown University cosmologist Stephon Alexander steps up to the podium in June to accept the 2024 Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Achievements in...

“What do you do?”, that odious question

This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with Filosofía...

APA announces Spring 2024 prize winners

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following nine prizes for the first half of 2024. APA prizes recognize many areas of...

Understanding the Duty to Care: A Vulnerability Perspective

Vulnerability theory differs from liberal political and legal perspectives in significant ways. The theory argues that we must replace the liberal theoretical subject with...

Maria Lugones: A Meditation on Acompañamiento, Compartir y Compas

A continuación se encuentra una versión en español. A Spanish translation of this post is below. I remember the first time I met you. It was...

Teaching Moral Reasoning with Terminator and Jesus

Semester after semester, I embarked on helping students to appreciate that morally relevant decisions are not a matter of personal preference, and I struggled...

Introducing the Question-Focused Pedagogy (QFP) Series

“Wait… but Stephen… there are no bad questions.” And there is it. Even as it has continued to happen, class after class, every time it...

How can we be good allies as bystanders during war?

Being from the Middle East, it is hard to avoid thinking about war. I’ve lived through three, as well as an event I’ll discuss...

Digital Ideology

The digital is material ideology. As the operating principle of the technologies it labels, the digital bears on the world not just in any way...

Moral Psychology, Jada Wiggleton-Little

The following syllabus is for a virtual 5-week summer course on Moral Psychology forundergraduate students at a public university. The course specifically looked at...