Monthly Archives: February, 2025

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Three American Hegels

Ryan Johnson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Elon University. Ryan’s books include Deleuze, A Stoic, Phenomenology of Black Spirit (co-written with...

Intimate Democracy

How do we arrive at some sense of being at home in the world without aspiring to own it?

Rebelling or Revelling?: Humor as a Sisyphean Task in Mystery Science Theater 3000, Part 1

The now classic movie-riffing series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), and its spinoffs such as Rifftrax, can tell us something about how to deal...

The two-draft assignment model

In my philosophy courses, I largely give take-home writing assignments. These are either focused on the course readings (no research required beyond the syllabus)...

Playful Resistance: Gender Norms as Games

The second Trump administration's attack on trans people is in full swing. Within hours of taking office for the second time, the president signed...

Richard T. Greener and the Abolitionist Moment in American Philosophy

On the first anniversary of the hanging of John Brown, December 3, 1860, abolitionists from Boston and around the country assembled in Tremont Temple...

Teaching Philosophy of Religion, Steven M. Cahn

Relatively few philosophers specialize in the philosophy of religion, but many teach an introductory problems course in which one usual topic is the existence...

Trading Time for Tissue: The Morality of Organ Donation Programs in Prisons

In January 2023, Democratic state Reps. Carlos González and Judith A. García introduced HD 3822 into the Massachusetts legislature. The bill proposed establishing a...

Tyla, Coloureds, Color, and Culture Part III

American YouTuber Armon Wiggins went viral on X after referring to Tyla as an “uppity African,” an insult with which the broadcaster and rapper...

Reflecting on 50 Years of the APA at the University of Delaware

Among the several milestone anniversaries the APA is celebrating between 2024 and 2027, the one perhaps least known but, in my view, among the...

Hamilton’s Folly: The U.S President’s Pardoning Power and Questions of Forgiveness

“The benign prerogative of pardoning” At the birth of the United States, Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 74 that “Humanity and good policy conspire to...

Selena Gomez Over Hobbes, or How To Be Successful in Academia

I began my PhD in Philosophy at Durham University (UK) in 2022. Since then, to my surprise, many BA and MA students interested in...

Logic and Critical Thinking, Matthew Lampert

I begin my Logic course with a selection from Descartes’s Discourse on Method (parts of §§1 and 2), because for me that book lays...

2018 Pacific Division Presidential Address: “On the Idea of ‘No Self’”

Below is the audio recording of Kwong-loi Shun’s presidential address, “On the Idea of 'No Self',” given at the 2018 Pacific Division Meeting. The...

APA Member Interview: Matthew Brewer

Matthew Brewer is a PhD candidate at Boston University, and his primary research interests are in the philosophy of the geosciences, including geoscientific methodology,...