Monthly Archives: May, 2025

The Cost of Rotten Speech: Knowledge, Reason & Democracy

The previous post in this series looked at how Elon Musk’s attempt to transform X (formerly Twitter) into a digital town square—grounded in absolute free speech—ironically...

Mary Midgley and The Necessity of Philosophy

Mary Midgley has become an increasingly prominent name in recent years. This could be attributed to her passing in 2018, which, along with the...

Changing the Way We Teach Formal Philosophy

Which non-living philosopher do you identify with most? This question was posed to professional philosophers on the 2020 PhilPapers survey of philosophers (“For which...

Why the News Can Never Be Neutral, and What We Can Do About It

Pragmatism can solve journalism's truth problem This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of...

Fairness and Transgender Eligibility in Women’s Sport

What is fairness in sport? The popular imagination has been gripped by the image of transgender athletes in women's sport, but not enough attention...

2019 Pacific Division Presidential Address: Individual Well-Being and Social Justice

Below is the audio recording of Richard Arneson’s presidential address, “Individual Well-Being and Social Justice,” given at the 2019 Pacific Division Meeting. The full...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Four Realms of Existence

Joseph LeDoux has worked on emotion, memory, and consciousness in the brain since the mid-1970s. He is a Professor of Neural Science at New...

Free Speech and the Philosophy Classroom: The Wrong Question

Welcome to the APA Mini-Series Blog organized by the APA Committee on Professional Rights and Academic Freedom, formerly, the Committee on the Professional Rights of Philosophers. We...

APA Member Interview: Samuel Berrettini

Sam is a first-year PhD candidate in Boston University's joint program in Philosophy and Classical Studies. He works primarily on Plato's moral psychology, but is...

From Winter to Summer in a Block Party Quilt

Coming to know your neighbors is patient, quiet, thoughtful work that can end up being domestic, fun, and comforting.  We are the stitchers of a collective quilt, the squares of which are patches of our contiguous living.

Radical Protest and Moral Justification

Imagine a protest. What do you see? Perhaps you imagined a demonstration: people marching, carrying hand-painted signs, singing songs, or chanting slogans. (“We are the...

Why should your students do the work?

Most philosophy teachers we know have adopted strikingly defensive positions on AI use in their classes. One faction—call them Luddites—rejects these novel “labor-saving” technologies...

Smart Ass Pawn: Ideology and Ideological Interpellation in The Wire

For the most part, The Wire (2002-2008) has been embraced by educators for its realism, for the way that it shows in almost journalistic...

Social and Political Philosophy, Idris Robinson

In Fall 2023 and again in Spring 2025, I taught Texas State University’s graduate-level Social and Political Philosophy course. My aim was to design...

Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala: A Review

How do our struggles to produce more rigorous ideas about liberation and decolonization relate to a variety of struggles across Abya Yala to produce...