Yearly Archives: 2024

Developments in the Analytic Philosophy of Judaism

I would like to thank Alexander Zhang for his assistance in crafting this post. When my paper was accepted at the Rutgers Analytic Theology Seminar...

What Does it Mean to Die with Dignity?

Assisted dying has always been controversial, but lately, it seems ever more present in public and philosophical debate. The proposed expansion of Canada’s Medical...

Central APA Secretary-Treasurer Retrospective

I served in the role of the Central Division Secretary-Treasurer (S-T) from January 2017 through June 2024. The role is many times a behind-the-scenes...

Stoicism, Sandra Woien

Stoicism, an ancient school of thought originating with Zeno of Citium (334-262 BC), is experiencing a resurgence. Several thriving and robust Stoic communities exist...

Social Processes and Shifting Existential Burdens: A Nietzschean Reading of Zora Neale Hurston’s African-American Folktales

Mules carry other people’s burdens. Zora Neale Hurston's third book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, describes the condition of being a mule. They are...

Rebellion and Ethics: An Aperture to Possibilities

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...

Philosophical Childhoods

You don’t get to be a parent, by whatever means, without being a child first. This seems trivial, but there is something here to...

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...