Monthly Archives: June, 2024

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Inner Space Philosophy

James Tartaglia is Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Keele University, UK. He is the author of Philosophy in a Meaningless Life (2016), Philosophy in...

Vito and Michael Corleone’s Ethical Inspiration to the Moviegoer

In addition to the detailed images of violence in The Godfather for which the adaption of Mario Puzo’s story of a successful crime family...

From the “Chinese Simone de Beauvoir” to the “Chinese He Yin Zhen”: Decolonizing Anglo-European Academic Philosophy through the Work of An Asian Feminist Philosopher

He Yin Zhen (1884—circa 1920) was a radical Chinese anarcha-feminist political philosopher. Her radicalness manifests itself not only in her views on such issues...

Two Easy Techniques to Restore (or at Least Affirm) Academic Honesty

In reading social media posts by philosophers and speaking with colleagues around the country, there seem to be four faculty responses to the academic...

A New Journal Survey: the PJIP Operations Survey

One of the most useful resources on philosophy journals is the Blog of the APA’s Journal Surveys Project. It shows the average wait time,...

Dangerous Daydreams: Political Philosophers and Immigration Control

Much mainstream philosophical work on migration focuses on whether or not states have a unilateral right to exclude would-be migrants from their territory. This...

APA Member Interview: Jacki Alvarez

Jacki Alvarez is a Philosophy professor at Merced College and in Prison through Rising Scholars. The preponderance of their work focuses on Feminist Ethics, Social...

New Series on Bioethics: Interview with Richard B. Gibson

What are the goals of this series? This series aims to showcase the fascinating, impactful, and (occasionally) controversial bioethical work in which members of the...

A Question for Teachers, Steven M. Cahn

To highlight a key element of successful teaching, consider this question: When you prepare to teach a class, is your primary focus on the...

Is the Law Helpful for Feminist Battles? MacKinnon and Cigarini’s Perspectives

Is the law a tool for feminism or an expression of patriarchy? Is the law able to authentically recognize the differences between the sexes,...

The Godfather’s Mafia Meeting Scene: A Fictional Narrative of Hobbesian Contractarianism

Whenever I teach the undergraduate courses of Ethical Theory and Contemporary Social Ethics, I include The Godfather’s mafia meeting scene as part of these...

Philosophy of Language, Helen L. Daly

My department at Colorado College lists the Philosophy of Language as an introductory course, but in my experience prior to this position, the philosophy...

Black Feminist Theory and Praxis: An interview with Dr. Desireé Melonas

Desireé Melonas is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Political Science and Black Study at the University of California, Riverside. She searches and teaches in the...

Where Questions Come From

A lot of emphasis in education is placed on showing what you know. But for at least a decade now, as I’ve thought about...

What Is Patriotism?

Naval officer Stephen Decatur is said to have once exclaimed, during a toast: “Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always...