Monthly Archives: August, 2025

The Future of AI in America Is Being Decided—And It’s Time to Pay Attention

Right now, the U.S. is rewriting the rules for the age of artificial intelligence —and the changes will shape not only the speed of...

Generative AI and Four Types of Deception

Since autumn of 2022, generative AI has taken the world by storm. With millions of regular users, billions of requests and corresponding results, tools...

Punk’s Original Values in the Age of Idiocy (“AI”)

AI does not have a conscience.  Why relate to a conscience-less thing as if were personal?  

Becoming Real: Barbie and the Crisis of Existential Identity 

At the beginning of the 2023 blockbuster hit, Barbie, the narrator makes two claims: “All of these women are Barbie and Barbie is all...

Designing for the struggle

When I create assignment prompts, my instructions explain both the what and the why. I include a brief statement explaining the value the assignment...

The Democratic Perils of Hidden Moderation 

Now that we hold a significant part of our discussions on social media platforms, worries and complaints about “shadowbanning”—the act of moderating online speech...

2020 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: The Road Taken

Below is the audio recording of Janet Levin’s John Dewey Lecture, “The Road Taken,” given at the 2020 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text...

Nietzsche, Fanon, and an Egalitarian Politics

What could a revolutionary thinker like Frantz Fanon possibly draw from the political philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, a self-proclaimed anti-egalitarian, anti-democrat, and anti-socialist? Nietzsche clearly...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy

Arthur Bradley is Professor of Comparative Literature in the School of Arts at Lancaster University. His most recent books are Unbearable Life: A Genealogy...

APA Member Interview, Jordan Walters

Jordan Walters is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He recently received his PhD in Philosophy...

Kant’s Empowering Conception of Humanity

Kant’s account of evil makes three key claims with major consequences for moral agency and responsibility. First, the distinction between good and evil lies...

The Ethics of “I”: Philosophy, Voice, and the Politics of Inclusion

1. Neither Here Nor There, But Thinking Through Both My own philosophical journey was shaped by the tension between place and thought, between inherited traditions...

Zen and the Art of Automotive Design

This brief Mazda advertisement describes the Japanese philosophy of jinba-ittai, the experience of a rider being one with their horse through the communication of...

Feminist Themes in Philosophy Film and Literature, Philip Bold & Tamara Fakhoury

We share a deep belief in the philosophical power of film—and in its unique ability to connect abstract thought with lived experience, imagination, and...

What’s Brewing for the 2026 Pacific APA Online Conference

The APA Pacific Division Program Committee and Executive Committee are working diligently to make the 2026 Pacific Division Meeting (held online only April 8–12,...