Yearly Archives: 2024

Defining and Determining Human Death

Since a groundbreaking 1968 report, vigorous debate has ensued regarding how we ought to conceptually define and clinically determine when a human being has...

New Series: AI and Teaching

Questions about the relationship between information technology and education are among the oldest in philosophy, dating back to Plato’s famous criticisms of writing in...

Queerness, Decolonization, and Ontological Suspension: A Brief Sketch

What contribution can philosophy make to queer and anticolonial politics? While answers are myriad, a significant number of philosophers have responded to this question...

Reconsidering Truth and Politics

In 2016 the sociologist Arlie Hochschild published Strangers in Their Own Land. The book appeared in the final days of that year’s presidential election...

Mesa Community College Philosophy Club

The Mesa Community College Philosophy Club was formed in March 2003, with our club founder, Dr. Dave Yount (Dr. Y for fun), still present...

Medusa: An Undergraduate Journal of Feminist Philosophy

Jill Drouillard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the Mississippi University for Women. Her research interests include feminist...

Property and Contract Are Dead. Long Live Economic Rights!

“It passed away, as most social systems do, in its sleep, leaving its citizens unaware that it was gone. No society more fully reflects...

A Drama for the Sages

The performance might have been plugged as “Only Philosophers in the Building.” This past March, for Kant’s 300th birthday, the North American Kant Society...

The Mystery of Consciousness Shows There May Be a Limit to What Science Alone Can Achieve

Last week, our Substack newsletter featured an interview between Philip Goff and the APA Blog's Philosophy and Technology Editor, Charlie Taben. They discussed Philip's...

Interview with Dr. Nathifa Greene

Dr. Nathifa Greene, I would like to thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. I’m really looking forward to hearing...

Good Relationships, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

Have you ever used a work contract that bypasses grade anxiety? There's one in a course created to meet a need undergraduates expressed during a moral development study: for more attention to their relationships.

Addressing post-truth: The insufficiency of the deficit model

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...

And If I Die Before I Wake

I think Hemingway, almost always writing about himself, might say that it’s acceptable to be writing about one’s self as long as one is...

How to Prevent a Shipwreck…

Welcome to the first post of the Tech & Society blog series. Each month, this series will delve into the various challenges, issues, and advancements in both...

The Train is Coming for Us: The crushing power of fiction

The above image was AI-generated using Microsoft Copilot. In the early days of cinema, rumor has it that some viewers were so captivated by the...