Monthly Archives: April, 2025

Towards a Democratic Economy

A strange cognitive dissonance is pervading our social life: we regard it as our inalienable right to govern ourselves democratically in one social sphere,...

Kant vs Hume: Can We Access Reality?

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...

Separate But Equal Cosmologies?

Brown University physics professor Stephon Alexander strikes one as an amazing cosmologist. He has written a book, The Jazz of Physics, that describes the...

2019 Eastern Division Dewey Lecture: Reflections of a Dinosaur

Below is the audio recording of Cora Diamond’s John Dewey Lecture, “Reflections of a Dinosaur,” given at the 2019 Eastern Division Meeting. The full...

Critical Phenomenology’s “Critique” in a Time of Polycrisis

Can critiques of lived experience transform the world? In recent years, proponents of “critical phenomenology” (e.g., Salamon 2018, Weiss et al. 2020) have articulated...

Brain Rot: Are We Rotting Our Minds in the Digital Age?

In the 21st century, terms considered marginal or colloquial are gaining unexpected cultural relevance. One of these is "brain rot", a term originally used...

Putting the “Social” in Social Media: Hannah Arendt, Political Judgment, and Online Polarization

The quantified metrics of likes, shares, and followers are often likened to currencies of social media. Like dollars and cents, we seek to acquire...

Through a Lens Darkly in the Digital Age

Some years back, my then toddler and I visited a friend’s house. Her children were excited to show off their recent accomplishments. My friend...

Trumpism, Illiberalism, and Political Morality

Because I am speaking to an already philosophically-oriented readership in this post, I am afraid it may seem a little "inside baseball." But for...

The Crisis of Academic Freedom at Columbia University

The proximate origin of the crisis at Columbia University, which has recently conceded to a range of demands by federal agencies that compromise the...

Ten Years at the Pacific Division

Ten years ago, as I prepared to take over as Secretary-Treasurer (ST) of the Pacific Division, my predecessor, Dom Lopes, gave me some advice....

Philosophy and Race, Cody Gomez

This “Philosophy and Race” course began somewhat accidentally due to my being a teaching assistant, then instructor, for a similar course while a graduate...

Mere Conservationism, Concurrentism, and Occasionalism in Teaching

In the spring of 2024, I took a graduate seminar on Leibniz taught by Professor Sukjae Lee in the Department of Philosophy at Seoul...

State-Mediated Structural Injustice

Sandy In her influential account of structural injustice, Iris Marion Young illustrates the problem with the story of Sandy. Sandy is a single mother...