Monthly Archives: October, 2025

Terranias and the Philosophical Urgency of the Anthropocene

“Reports from Abroad” Series Interview What can philosophy say—and do—in the age of the Anthropocene? This collective interview brings together core members of Terranias, a...

Criminalizing Mental Illness: Cops as Clinicians and Incarceration as Health Care in the United States

Consider the case of Harvey. Harvey experiences paranoid delusions, and one evening, he can’t shake the feeling that someone is watching him from his...

APA Member Interview: Sondra Charbadze

Sondra Charbadze is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at SUNY Stony Brook, where she is studying phenomenology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of technology, with...

The Price of Being Unrecognized: Epistemic Exclusion and the Burden of Speaking as an Azerbaijani Turk Woman in Academia 

Across post-colonial and Global South scholarship, a growing body of work has shed light on how colonial legacies and global hierarchies shape knowledge production....

Sarah Silverman’s “I Love You, America” and World-Traveling

In the clip from I Love You, America (2017–2018), comic Sarah Silverman talks to a conservative family about their beliefs regarding gun control, Donald...

W(h)ither Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?

“Diversity” has a strange history as an institutional goal. Standard (pre-)histories of diversity initiatives in the U.S. government and the private sector typically trace...

2021 Central Division Presidential Address: Twenty Questions

Below is the audio recording of Russ Shafer-Landau’s presidential address, “Twenty Questions,” given at the 2021 Central Division Meeting. The full text is available...

How Can Philosophers Rebuild Trust in Science?

In today’s world, we are flooded with information, especially through social media. Such information is often poorly checked, and it can sometimes be difficult...

The Ivory Tower We Do Not See: On Science, Politics, and Philosophy

Philosophy of science is no longer the austere discipline concerned with the study of the logical structure of scientific theories. Of course, philosophical debates...

Longtermism and its Limits

Is humanity on its way out? It’s hard to say for sure, but the deck is certainly stacked against us. We are currently facing...

From Synthetic Data to the Reshaping of Approaches to Representation

The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into our lives, and particularly its generative form, has raised numerous ethical and social issues over the years—ranging...

Striking a Balance: Reconciling Democratic Citizenship and Epistemic Agency

Pick any recent op-ed lamenting the demise of contemporary democracy and you will most likely read claims about how a toxic combination of widespread...

Are We Free to Act or Determined by Causality?

This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with them. The...

A Call to Public Scholars During Turbulent Times

In Race Matters, Cornel West anticipates a dilemma that continues to shape American intellectual life. He observes that the massive growth of the Academy...

APA Member Interview, Zara Anwarzai

Zara Anwarzai is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University whose work sits at the intersection of Philosophy and Cognitive Science. She focuses on...