Monthly Archives: September, 2024

Seattle University’s Philosophy Club: An Overview

Seattle University’s philosophy club provides a forum for students to engage in philosophical discussion, debate, and study. Club meetings draw a range of students...

rPlaceUniverse: Teen-found Organization Transforming Teen Insights into Philosophical Theories

Our Place in the Universe is a philosophy association founded by and for secondary school students interested in philosophy. Originating as a philosophy club...

Musings On Service Work, Fit, and Graduate School Education

I transferred between philosophy Ph.D. programs after my first year in graduate school. A few weeks into the transfer, I called my long-distance partner...

Philosophy and Current Affairs: The Russia-Ukraine War

According to one founding myth, philosophy begins in ancient Greece with Socrates abstracting from concrete examples of just activity in order to determine the...

What Is Racism?

Below is the audio recording of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Berggruen Prize Lecture, given at the 2024 Pacific Division Meeting and made possible through the...

“In Order to Live We Must Synthesize Thought and Feeling”: Reflections on Philosophical Pedagogy with Audre Lorde

As many of us head back into our classrooms to greet new cohorts of students, I am thinking about what it means (to me)...

Indigenous Philosophy, Getty L. Lustila

I proposed my course “PHIL 2492: Indigenous Philosophy” in the fall of 2022, when I was hired for my current position at Northeastern University....

Hannah Arendt’s conception of responsibility

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...

To Salt or Not to Salt the Pasta Water: A Reflection on “Useless” Human Rituals

I love the weird bends of our behavior that come about from taking our made-up rules too seriously. This phenomenon seems to me like...