Monthly Archives: March, 2025

Reflections on Graduate Student Life

Before I began writing for the Graduate Student Reflection Series, I made a point of reading nearly all the previously published contributions. What struck...

To Protect Democracy from Oligarchy We Must Fight Inequality, but also Hierarchy

The problem of oligarchy is a problem of undue influence of wealth on politics. This problem takes a specific form in liberal-democratic, capitalist regimes....

2018 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Finding Philosophy

Below is the audio recording of Gary Watson’s John Dewey Lecture, “Finding Philosophy,” given at the 2018 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text is...

Progress For All Humanity?

This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with Filosofía...

The Joy of Hatred and the Exercise of Reason

In the evening of the 9th of February 2025, more than 133 million Americans, in the midst of the yearly ritual of the Super...