Monthly Archives: June, 2025

We Still Have Time to Protect the Last Frontier of Privacy

This time last year, I was all set to buy the Apple Vision Pro. I’ve been a long-time Apple devotee—their design, UX, and product...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law

Elizabeth Chloe Romanis is an Associate Professor in Biolaw at Durham Law School, University of Durham in the U.K. Chloe does research in healthcare...

APA Member Interview: Ryan S. Bingham

Ryan S. Bingham is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he studies the work of Jacques Derrida at the...

Work Shirts to the Opera

The only good academic is as good as the trash collector.

Interview with New Associate Editor of the Women in Philosophy Series

Welcome, and thanks for joining the Blog! Could you tell us more about yourself? What do you think our readers should know about you?  Thanks...

Questioning the Doubting Game

Things are going well in Symbolic Logic. Students are mastering truth tables, and they’re symbolizing English sentences into our truth-functional language with increasing facility....

Without Philosophy Einstein Said He Would Have “Contributed Nothing”

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 with the...

Encouraging Students to Reflect

College courses, unlike most high school courses, require students to engage in a good deal of independent learning. What they do outside of class...

Jacobi, Husserl, and the Guises of Nihilism

"Nihilism" is a term mostly associated with Friedrich Nietzsche. But it precedes him by nearly a century. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi coins it in 1799...

2020 Central Division Presidential Address: Practical Possibilities and the One-Thought-Too-Many Objection to Moral Deliberation

Below is the audio recording of Julia Driver’s presidential address, “Practical Possibilities and the One-Thought-Too-Many Objection to Moral Deliberation,” given at the 2020 Central...

APA Member Interview, Vikas Beniwal

Vikas Beniwal is currently pursuing an M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Mississippi. Prior to this, he earned an M.A. in Philosophy and...

Consciousness, the brain, and our chimeric selves

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...

Legal but Not Protected: The Precarious Space of H-1B Workers

Earlier this year, a heated debate over the H-1B visa program erupted among key supporters of President Trump and soon sparked reactions across the...

Iran Is the Enemy the West Created

War with the West needs a theocracy This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the...

Flirting with Personhood: Will Smith’s Date with Sophia the Robot

With the increased prevalence of AI chatbots on dating apps, many users wonder if their date-to-be is really a person. The following clip depicts...