Monthly Archives: October, 2025

The Trouble With Ghost Hunting

Most people would not associate the sunny city of San Diego with the paranormal. However, it hosts a notable spiritual scene. Nestled in the...

APA Member Interview, Ilgin Aksoy

Ilgin Aksoy holds a PhD in philosophy from Middle East Technical University and is completing a second PhD at Memorial University of Newfoundland and...

Ever Thought Your iPhone Was Listening to You?

The real privacy problem runs deeper Many people are convinced that their iPhones, Alexas, or Google Homes are secretly recording their every word. You mention...

Treating Each Other Well in Online Spaces

We’ve all heard warnings about how we treat each other online. Don’t read the comments sections of your blog posts, the people there are...

Writing Fungal Flesh

We don’t always realize the damage our words can do to others. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how rarely affective correspondences are taken into...

Bring Public Ethics to Life: Host the Bowl in Your Campus (PBS Documentary + Event Guide)

The Film & the Early-Access Opportunity The APA is pleased to share a high-impact opportunity to put philosophy in front of more students and communities. The...

Defending Democracy Through Deliberative Capacity Building

Democracy has been on the defensive for the last decade and more. Right-wing populist and authoritarian leaders dismantle democratic checks on state power, repress...

Deadnames and the Philosophy of Language

Names are a big deal in the philosophy of language. Gottlob Frege taught philosophers about sense and reference with “Hesperus” and “Phosphorus.” Bertrand Russell...

2021 Central Division Dewey Lecture: Some Historical Observations

Below is the audio recording of Robin Smith’s John Dewey Lecture, “Some Historical Observations,” given at the 2021 Central Division Meeting. The full text...

The Trajectory of a Life: Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano

A topic apt to be covered in an ethics course is the nature of living well. The theory we have defended in our book...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Signs from the Future. A Philosophy of Warnings

Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona in Spain. His writing has appeared in The New...

APA Member Interview: Arash Babaei

Arash Babaei is a specialist in the philosophy of education, a writer, and a researcher in moral development and values education. He is recognized...

Undoing Cycles of Violence with a New Concept of Protest

The relational substructure of protest is interpersonal responsibility, contradicting the narcissistic drift of tactical protest forms.

Slackers Against Narrativity

Disclaimer: Sara Bizarro is a series editor at the Blog of the APA. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and...

Healthcare Ethics, Gisela Reyes

This course on healthcare ethics came to be as an amalgamation of my experiences both as a graduate teaching assistant at Northwestern University and...