Monthly Archives: August, 2025

Affective Time Travel: Remembering Feelings of Past Life Phases

Memory is more than a simple recollection of particular past events; it is often a gateway to the feelings and moods that were prevalent...

Introduction to the Series “Reports from Abroad”

“La philosophie est une réflexion pour qui toute matière étrangère est bonne, et nous dirions volontiers pour qui toute bonne matière est étrangère.” “Philosophy is...

AI, Wicked Problems, and Health Care Distributive Justice

Health care in the United States is extraordinarily expensive. To be precise, in 2024, total health spending in the US was about $5.1 trillion...

The Falepili Union, Climate Change, and Self-Determination

In November 2023, Australia and Tuvalu signed the Falepili Union treaty, a historic agreement that has been described as the first “climate migration” visa...

APA Member Interview: Meghan Carron

Meghan Carron is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston, with academic interests in Philosophy, Psychology, and Cognitive Science. Her areas of specialization...

Three Varieties of Scientific Engagement: Exploring the Space of Naturalistic Approaches to Philosophy

Much of contemporary philosophy engages in some way or other with science. But what kind of engagement with science is important, and what is...

Bordering on the Truth: A Northern Irish Case Study

If you read about a place called Newry, it will tell you that it is a city just on the edge of Northern Ireland’s...

Are Elections Enough? Democracy and Collective Power

The association of democracy with elections is relatively recent. In ancient Athens, three things distinguished democracy from other regimes: all citizens having a right...

A Question about Grading, Steven M. Cahn

In a generous, extended review of my recent book Exploring Academic Ethics, Michael Goldman fairly summarizes my view that a grade should represent an...

Looking Without to See Within: The Promise and Problems of Transparency in Self-Knowledge

Most philosophers, and in my experience, many non-philosophers as well, have the intuition that there is something distinctive about the knowledge we have of...

2020 Pacific Division Presidential Address: A Plea for Natural Philosophy

Below is the audio recording of Penelope Maddy’s presidential address, “A Plea for Natural Philosophy,” given at the 2020 Pacific Division Meeting. The full...

Historicity and Intersubjectivity as Epistemologies of Black Liberation

Introduction Contemporary critical theories of Black life, particularly Afropessimism as formulated by Frank Wilderson and the postcolonial fatalism found in Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony...

Two Things I Learned Working with High School Students

A couple of years ago, two other graduate students (Sam Ridge and Karina Ortiz Villa) and I started UCSD’s chapter of Briana Toole’s fantastic outreach...

Why Egalitarian Philosophers (and the Rest of Us) Should Be More Concerned About Roads

Traffic is trivial. Rules of the road are a basic necessity for a well-functioning society, but their design is largely a technical matter of...

How we Make Each Other or, How is this Book Philosophy?

For years now, I have grappled with how to do philosophy as a trans person and how to do philosophy from the social position...