Yearly Archives: 2025

Our APA Central Watch Party Experience

The 2025 Central APA Watch Parties left an impact on our students, some of whom expressed surprise that a community college would have been...

Towards a Meaningful Life

My interest in philosophy began during my junior year study abroad program, an unexpected turn from my original path. Before then, I was fully...

The Übermensch of Excellence? In Defense of Ordinariness

This post was originally published on Kronika: Filozofski magazin and has been republished with the permission of Kronika and the author. A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of...

Liberalism and Socialism: Allies or Opponents?

The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City Mayoral election has propelled discussion of socialism to the front of the political...

Seasick in My Own Skin: Reflections on Chronic Disease

“The itching won’t stop.”  “We need to call the clinic first thing tomorrow,” my wife said.  Malaise. Unstoppable nausea. Brain-scrambling migraines. Now this indomitable itch. Such has...

Do You “Delve”?

How Generative AI Is Changing Our Vocabulary—And Maybe Our Thinking. When I worked on one of the early posts in this series, a data scientist...

APA Member Interview, Gary Chartier

Gary Chartier is Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics and Associate Dean of the Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University. His...

There Are Such Raw Fears in a New Relationship

Show people working through conflict in your art, including your philosophy. The focus here is on relationship, not argument, although reasoning and imagination are involved.

Expressing the Absurd Society in Orson Welles’s The Trial

Few authors of the twentieth century were as sensitive to the relationship between human existence and the apparent randomness of life as Franz Kafka...

Must we Compromise? Democracy and Polarization

In debates over mounting political polarization, few concerns are voiced more often than the loss of compromise. The decline of bipartisanship is often treated...

Tending to Ballroom: An Inquiry of Wayward Improvisation and Cultural Cooptation

“If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, it’d be a fun world wouldn’t it?” I have only seen Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary...

Teaching General Education Philosophy Courses to Underprepared College Students

I teach at Central State University (CSU), Ohio’s only state HBCU, where many students are first-generation college students and where most of our students’...

Why I Support the Virtual APA: Why I Hope to See You at the Pacific This Year

The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a mini-series called “Why I Support the Virtual APA.” This post will be the first out of...

2021 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy and Me

Below is the audio recording of Naomi Zack’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy and Me,” given at the 2021 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text...

A Kantian Approach to Everything? On Life Choices and Universal Basic Income

Immanuel Kant urged us to respect the value of human beings by treating them always (at the same time) as ends in themselves and...