Monthly Archives: March, 2025

Félix Varela: A Latino Defender of Modern Philosophy without Neglecting his Faith

Few philosophers and scholars in the Anglophone world have heard of or have known about the Cuban presbyter/philosopher Félix Varela y Morales. Even those...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Contemplation: The Movements of the Soul

Kevin Hart is Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor in the Divinity School at Duke University. His most recent scholarly books are Lands of...

The Philosophical Import of Where We Eat

That food plays a special role in every culture is a platitude. Ditto for the idea that space shapes us as individuals and as...

APA Member Interview, Zhiwei Yang

Zhiwei Yang is currently a PhD candidate at Peking University. He is now a visiting student for one year in the Department of Linguistics...

The Selfish Ones

Selfishness is now realism, unrestrained, unapologetic, and brash.  Realistic people are selfish, and selfishness is a real virtue. 

Online Philosophy Pedagogy in the Age of AI

If you have not been living under a rock for the past two years, you should be aware of the fact that AI poses...

One Step Back, Two Steps Elsewhere: Exploring the Past to Envision Democratic Futures

It is difficult to write the words "democracy is in crisis" without a sense of reluctance. In many ways, it feels like a trivial...

Rebelling or Revelling?: Humor as a Sisyphean Task in Mystery Science Theater 3000, Part 2

The Loving Ironic Cutification of Bad Movies through Ridicule It might be thought that the many ridiculing jokes directed against a bad movie can only...

George Santos and the Cunning of Reason

When reproached for explicitly identifying as Jewish in front of the Republican Jewish Coalition, at a campaign event in Florida, and on his campaign...

2019 Eastern Division Presidential Address: The Philosophy of Privacy and Digital Life

Below is the audio recording of Anita L. Allen’s presidential address, “The Philosophy of Privacy and Digital Life,” given at the 2019 Eastern Division...

Considering Black Intelligibility and Generosity Through Mills and Wilderson

In his 2017 conversations with Tiffany Lethabo King, published in the collection Otherwise Worlds as “Staying Ready for Black Study,” Frank Wilderson sets a...

The Birth of a Journal

The idea that the APA should have a journal had been around for some time, but it came to fruition in 2012, when the...

History, Hospitals, and Health Disparities

In the early days of COVID-19, I was a bioethics fellow at Johns Hopkins, and I became involved with several efforts to evaluate the...

An Invitation to Take the Question of Secession Seriously

Political philosophers should think more about the theory of secession. There is a philosophical literature on secession, most obviously the work of Allan Buchanan,...

Staving Off and Serving Up Inventions

Saturday Morning Lessons My mother’s employment for as long as I can remember was that of a home attendant, also known as a "home health...