Monthly Archives: October, 2024

Loneliness and Philosophy: On Therapy, Loneliness, and the Commodification of Connection

This post is part of a new series exploring philosophical perspectives on loneliness. If you are interested in contributing to this series, please submit...

The Origin of Covid-19 and the Politics of Science

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many scientists embraced the idea, based on past experience with other coronaviruses, that it was highly...

The Philosophy To End All Philosophy

Do you think that you have a divine right to have children? Might you even have a duty to do so? Our new book,...

APA Member Interview: Skye Cleary

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...

How Chinese Youth Engage with Vulnerability Theory: A Reflection

Vulnerability theory, which has gained considerable traction in Western legal and philosophical discourses, particularly in Europe and North America, remains relatively unknown in Chinese...

Philosophy Meets the Gendertrash from Hell

“You don't look like a poet. You look more like one of those people they're always writing about in the Times.” - Samuel R....

Taking Advice as a Graduate Student

As a graduate student, I’ve received plenty of advice, much of it contradictory. I’ve been told to attend as many conferences as possible, while...

Questioning Questions

I struggle mightily with the question of what it’s fair to explore in a philosophy class. First, I teach in a state that recently...

Get Organized

I love doing my PhD in philosophy. I love the autonomy I have over my work. I can write about anything from basically anywhere....

Mary Warnock at 100, Public Philosophy at its Finest

This year is a good one for several related anniversaries. It is forty years since the first issue of the Journal of Applied Philosophy...

Chatting with the Dead

For millennia, bereaved people have tried to continue their relationship with the deceased through various artifacts, practices, and rituals. 2,300 years ago, the Confucian...

Gun Owning Philosopher Speaks Out

I am a professor of philosophy. I am also a gun owner. And I think that advocates of gun control need to stop all...

Cryonics, Survival, and the Irreversibility of Death

During a recent trip back home, one of us (Adam) was invited for a tour of the facilities of the oldest and best-known cryonics...

Navigating the Intersection of AI, Science, and Society

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the landscape of scientific inquiry and public discourse, philosophers find themselves at a critical juncture....

The Hammer and the Orchestra: Democratic Production from Kant to Angela Davis

Many philosophers, from Kant and Marx to Rawls and Angela Davis, take the nature of the economy to be central to the justification of...