Monthly Archives: June, 2025

Technology and Disability, Ashley Shew, Damien P. Williams, and Joshua Earle

The three of us have taught classes about Technology and Disability through a philosophical lens, though this class has not been taught exclusively through...

AI Agents and Solidarity at Work

Imagine the following scenario: You are an engineer who has worked for years with a small group of colleagues. One day, your company informs...

The Poetic Way of Resistance to Western Hegemony: Where Fanon’s Anti-Imperialism and İsmet Özel’s Spiritual Resistance Meet?

Frantz Fanon offers in-depth studies of the emancipation processes of postcolonial societies and emphasized that these processes are not limited to physical independence but...

Copycat Covers

Taylor Swift is a hugely successful businesswoman. She’s also an artist. A large part of her “Taylor’s Versions” project is (or was) the replication...

APA Member Interview, Kristin Borgwald

Kristin Borgwald recently joined the faculty of St. Louis Community College, Meramec. She was previously a professor at Miami Dade College for 14 years,...

What is the inner life of an atom?

Panpsychism is the belief that mind is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world. Panpsychism resolves a dilemma within realism: mind is itself elemental or...

Accounting for Institutional Limitations on Agency under Trump: Civil Servants’ Loyalty Traps

When I started investigating civil servants’ responses to the first Trump administration in 2017, I presumed civil servants were likely to face ethical dilemmas....

Crimes against women is the excuse, not the cause

Sometimes, you know just from the title: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” Rich as this...

The Republican Moment: Reviving Freedom and Democracy in an Authoritarian Age

Across the globe, authoritarianism is in the ascendancy. As Freedom House have reported, over the last two decades many repressive regimes across the world...

2019 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy, Science, and History: A Personal Perspective

Below is the audio recording of Michael Friedman’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy, Science, and History: A Personal Perspective,” given at the 2019 Pacific Division...

Should States Be Allowed to Sell Their Citizenship?

Many philosophers think that certain things should not be for sale. But should states sell citizenship to foreigners? Consider one recent proposal: President Donald...

The Problem with the Phrase “I’m Not Surprised, But…”

“I’m not surprised, but….” “It is hardly unexpected that this has happened, but….” I trust that such formulations are familiar, as is what follows:...

APA Member Interview, Anna Boessenkool

Anna Boessenkool is a Philosophy PhD candidate at Boston College and Guest Academic Affiliate at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is currently...

Thermodynamic Insider Baseball (or: Why Philosophy of Physics Matters)

There’s something slightly awkward about being a philosopher in a room full of cosmologists. Of course, the other students in this 500-level physics course...

The Metaphysics Behind Putin’s War on Liberalism

Radical Conservatives like Dugin want to change our view of reality This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with...