Monthly Archives: November, 2025

Do You “Delve”?

How Generative AI Is Changing Our Vocabulary—And Maybe Our Thinking. When I worked on one of the early posts in this series, a data scientist...

APA Member Interview, Gary Chartier

Gary Chartier is Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics and Associate Dean of the Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University. His...

There Are Such Raw Fears in a New Relationship

Show people working through conflict in your art, including your philosophy. The focus here is on relationship, not argument, although reasoning and imagination are involved.

Expressing the Absurd Society in Orson Welles’s The Trial

Few authors of the twentieth century were as sensitive to the relationship between human existence and the apparent randomness of life as Franz Kafka...

Must we Compromise? Democracy and Polarization

In debates over mounting political polarization, few concerns are voiced more often than the loss of compromise. The decline of bipartisanship is often treated...

Tending to Ballroom: An Inquiry of Wayward Improvisation and Cultural Cooptation

“If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, it’d be a fun world wouldn’t it?” I have only seen Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary...

Teaching General Education Philosophy Courses to Underprepared College Students

I teach at Central State University (CSU), Ohio’s only state HBCU, where many students are first-generation college students and where most of our students’...

Why I Support the Virtual APA: Why I Hope to See You at the Pacific This Year

The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a mini-series called “Why I Support the Virtual APA.” This post will be the first out of...

2021 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy and Me

Below is the audio recording of Naomi Zack’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy and Me,” given at the 2021 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text...

A Kantian Approach to Everything? On Life Choices and Universal Basic Income

Immanuel Kant urged us to respect the value of human beings by treating them always (at the same time) as ends in themselves and...

From Paternalism to Suicide Prevention: No Simple Path

This entry is based on my “Paternalism and the Ethics of Suicide Prevention,” forthcoming in M. Cholbi and P. Stellino, eds., Oxford Handbook of...

APA Member Interview, Ismail Kurun

Ismail Kurun is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He works in social & political philosophy, Islamic & medieval philosophy, the philosophy...

The State-Family Narrative and the Responsive State

On February 5, I delivered a presentation on China’s legal response system to domestic violence at Emory Law School, in which I introduced the...

Humanist Feminism and Dehumanization

A basic tenet of feminism is that women as a group face systematic and non-accidental forms of social injustice. Hence, feminism has typically been...

APA Member Interview, Ximeng Chen

Ximeng Chen is an associate professor from the Department of Philosophy at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. She was a CSTMS scholar at UC Berkeley...