Monthly Archives: October, 2024

“I Can See Your Gender”: Givenness at the Paris Olympics

Something catches the eye—no, not something, somebody—but the passage from something to somebody takes a fraction of an instant. The familiarity of the person’s...

Designing the Grade as a Target to Strive For

At the end of the semester, I calculate each of my students’ final grades. Soon, prospective employers or admissions officers will consult these grades...

On and Off in Life and Death

Less than a year after the American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett put out his latest collection of quality ruminations on his life, titled I've...

APA Member Interview: Ding

Ding works in feminist political philosophy, social metaphysics, and philosophy of law. They are currently finishing their PhD at the University of Arizona. Their...

Meet the APA: Thom Brooks

Thom Brooks is Professor of Law and Government at Durham University’s Law School where he was Dean for five long years. His background is...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Nietzsche as Metaphysician

Justin Remhof is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University and the author of Nietzsche’s Constructivism: A Metaphysics of Material Objects. His...

Philosophers Can Be Awesome At Political Phone Banking

As I write, the 2024 U.S. federal election is in its final stretch, and it’s a nail-biter. A few thousand swing voters may well...

The Adult Talk Test

Can a given politician have an adult conversation with you? A lot hangs on the meaning of "adult conversation."

The Varieties of Academic Success, Steven M. Cahn

Those who pursue a professorial career typically follow a path from high school to college to graduate school to faculty membership. Rarely noted, however,...

AI and Against the Priority of Writing

I went to a conference on academic integrity at Randolph College back in 2018. There was one hot topic at the time. It was...

The Invader, Self-Knowledge: Four Science Fiction Films that Intuit the Human Future. Part 2:  Annihilation and I Am Mother

Ex Machina (2014) Arrival (2016) Annihilation  (2018) I Am Mother (2019) In the film Arrival, human exploration comes in the form of empathetic engagement by linguist Louise Banks....

Introduction to the Humanities: Human Horizons, Jacob Mills and David Liakos

We are friends and colleagues who have collaborated on developing the following course at Houston Community College (HCC). We are also both philosophers. While the...

The Other Scholasticism: the Heirs of Avicenna

Unless you follow the field closely, you probably aren’t aware of a major shift in scholarship on philosophy in the Islamic world. Since the...

2017 Pacific Division Presidential Address: Charting the Landscape of Reason

Below is the audio recording of Kenneth Taylor’s presidential address, “Charting the Landscape of Reason,” given at the 2017 Pacific Division Meeting. The full...

Remembering Robert L. Allen

This past July, Robert L. Allen passed away at 82. As an undergraduate student, Allen had a very large impact on me. I took...