Yearly Archives: 2024

Reflections on Teaching in the AI Age

I kind of miss plagiarism. Some turn of phrase in a student’s paper would sound a bit off, and some googling would uncover that...

Tough-Soft

My grandmother drank her coffee out of a teacup. It was a ritual. Every morning she would put a heaping spoonful of Folgers instant coffee into...

The Research and Diversity/Inclusiveness Beats Seek New Editors

The APA Blog is looking for volunteer, remote Series Editors for its Research and Diversity & Inclusiveness Beats. We are looking for editors to...

Meet the APA: Becko Copenhaver

Becko Copenhaver is Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. She studies the philosophy of mind and the history of...

APA Member Interview: Paul J. Kelly

Paul J. Kelly is pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His primary areas of philosophical interest are the philosophy of...

Syllabus Showcase: The Philosophy of Education, Kristopher G. Phillips

Part of what I love about teaching philosophy is that it affords me the opportunity to take things that students find familiar or banal...

Tendayi Sithole’s Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology in Azania

Mabogo Percy More is a philosopher who describes his work as “Azanian Africana existential philosophy” (110). Born in 1946, More was one of the...

APA Member Interview: Marybel Menzies

Marybel Menzies is a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto. Her areas of specialization are philosophy of mind and value theory. She is...

If We’re Living in a Simulation, The Gods Might Be Crazy

This essay was originally published in Slate. That we’re living in a computer simulation—it sounds like a paranoid fantasy. But it’s a possibility that futurists,...

What is Decolonial Aesthesis? Art and Aesthetics at the Margins

‘The word “aesthetics” is reinvented by decolonial movements as a critique of the repressive mechanisms of colonial “beauty” associated with this term. It is...

Care Exploitation in Academia

Faculty and staff are experiencing increasing demands for service in higher education, particularly for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts. These demands are often...

The Teaching Beat Seeks New Series Editors

The Teaching Beat of the Blog of the American Philosophical Association is looking for Series Editors.  First, we seek a Series Editor to manage the...

Embracing the Mad Science of Machine Consciousness

Almost 25 years ago, I wrote my first (almost certainly naïve) MA thesis on chatbots for what was essentially a philosophy and AI program...

APA Member Interview: Jasmine Tremblay D’Ettorre

Jasmine Tremblay D'Ettorre is a Ph.D. student in the University of Toronto’s Department of Philosophy. She is interested in moral and political philosophy, with...

Syllabus Showcase: Society, Justice and Health Care, Giancarlo Tarantino

SYLLABUS REFLECTION Health Care Ethics and Society is a sophomore-level course at the Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago. Arrupe is a small associate degree-granting,...