Monthly Archives: April, 2025

The Aesthetics of Black Madness

July 20, 2025, marks the centennial of Frantz Fanon’s birth. In honoring his valuable contributions to liberatory struggles, I am drawn to his pursuits...

Valuation Pipelines in AI

Let’s be honest. The last AI conference you attended was probably littered with ethical buzzwords (fairness, privacy, accountability, transparency, safety…) whose actual meanings are...

Life as a Flow

Two Truths Approach Each Other What is it to be oneself? Or to live authentically? Psychoanalysis was a first, in terms of the psychological...

APA Member Interview: Patrick D. Anderson

Patrick D. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Central State University and editor of the WikiLeaks Bibliography. His research focuses on the...

On Grand Strategy: A Transdisciplinary Analysis of its Interplay with Human Nature, National Security and Strategic Culture 

The late American diplomat and grand strategist Henry Kissinger once said, “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they...

Private Guns and Public Safety: Making Sense of the Tension

A natural way to understand the conflict between respecting individual rights and advancing the public good is as follows: if a socially worthwhile cause...

What Are Oppressive Acts? Conceptual Engineering and Pornography

Criticisms of inegalitarian pornography (which I will call "pornography" hereafter for brevity)—or what Ann Eaton defines as “sexually explicit representations that as a whole...

John Cage’s 4’33” and Experimental Phenomenology

Death Metal band Dead Territory has a wonderful video cover of John Cage’s 4'33" that I use in my Introduction to Latin American Philosophy...

Information and Data Will Never Deliver Creativity

This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA's partnership...

On Sentimental Value

We all have items of sentimental value—whether it’s a pebble picked up on the beach, a souvenir magnet from a trip abroad, or a...

What Makes You Love Doing Philosophy?

Whenever I meet someone who has been studying philosophy much longer than I have, I always ask the same question: How has your love...

Are We All Hypocrites About the Rule of Law?

Charges of “that’s illegal!” don’t seem to stick across the political divide. When the left charges Trump with illegal acts, the right points out Biden’s...

Asking Effective Questions, Steven M. Cahn

In an oral examination, faculty members are probing the breadth and depth of a student’s knowledge. The usefulness of the format, however, depends on...

Navigating the Ethics and Ontology of Human Neuron-Microchip Biocomputers

Have you ever played the 1970’s-era arcade game Pong? It’s basically primitive computer tennis: you hit a moving dot back and forth across the...

Medical Bias as Hierarchy

Just ten hours after giving birth to her second child via C-section, Kira Johnson died of haemorrhagic shock at Cedars-Sinai hospital, surrounded by some...