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 is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“Philosophy and Me” by Naomi Zack
Naomi Zack is Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY, where she has been on the faculty since 2019. She previously taught at the University of Oregon, Eugene, and the University at Albany, SUNY. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. Her most recent books are Democracy: A Very Short Introduction (2023), Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies (2022), The American Tragedy of COVID-19 (2021), and Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government (2020).
About this series: The Blog of the APA is pleased to publish the Presidential Addresses and John Dewey Lectures given at the Eastern, Central, and Pacific APA Division Meetings, which communicate the ideas and experiences that the renowned philosophers who delivered them felt are most important for people in the field to know. The Blog wishes to thank the APA leadership and Jeremy Cushing for their support and assistance in making these recordings available.
