Yearly Archives: 2024

Against the Odds: Defending Defensive Wars

Introduction Peace is better than war. It takes two to fight. These are truisms: they’re true, but so obvious that they’re not usually worth stating....

Just War Theory and The Russia-Ukraine War

1. War, Unjust War, and Just War There are three wars currently in progress in Ukraine: the war between Russia and Ukraine, the Russian war...

Call for Blog Posts for the Question-Focused Pedagogy Series Written by Current Undergraduate Students

Blog posts due November 22nd, 2024 Please submit them at sschulman@elon.edu. Students have unique perspectives on teaching and learning that occur in philosophy classes. In addition,...

The End of the Universe

I have been thinking about time inversion and looked more carefully into arrow of time reversal experiments like the one published in Nature in...

Someone Else’s Story: Cultural Appropriation in Fiction

My novel, A Beautiful Land, tells the story of a land that is physically beautiful but once was a place of terror. As I...

Reviving Electoral Democracy

It sometimes seems that we approach the theory and practice of democracy with one hand clasped firmly behind our back. Although reams of ink...

Thinking in Dark Times: Life, Death, and Social Solidarity

In this article, Volodymyr Yermolenko examines the power of ideas to shape social and political events. He is particularly interested in the way misguided...

Thinking About Freedom in Wartime Ukraine

In this article, Timothy Snyder recounts his meeting with President Zelensky shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Snyder explores the...

Seattle University’s Philosophy Club: An Overview

Seattle University’s philosophy club provides a forum for students to engage in philosophical discussion, debate, and study. Club meetings draw a range of students...

rPlaceUniverse: Teen-found Organization Transforming Teen Insights into Philosophical Theories

Our Place in the Universe is a philosophy association founded by and for secondary school students interested in philosophy. Originating as a philosophy club...

Musings On Service Work, Fit, and Graduate School Education

I transferred between philosophy Ph.D. programs after my first year in graduate school. A few weeks into the transfer, I called my long-distance partner...

Philosophy and Current Affairs: The Russia-Ukraine War

According to one founding myth, philosophy begins in ancient Greece with Socrates abstracting from concrete examples of just activity in order to determine the...

What Is Racism?

Below is the audio recording of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Berggruen Prize Lecture, given at the 2024 Pacific Division Meeting and made possible through the...

“In Order to Live We Must Synthesize Thought and Feeling”: Reflections on Philosophical Pedagogy with Audre Lorde

As many of us head back into our classrooms to greet new cohorts of students, I am thinking about what it means (to me)...

Indigenous Philosophy, Getty L. Lustila

I proposed my course “PHIL 2492: Indigenous Philosophy” in the fall of 2022, when I was hired for my current position at Northeastern University....