Yearly Archives: 2025

2025
APA

2020 Central Division Dewey Lecture: How I Am an Aristotelian

Erin Shepherd -
Below is the audio recording of Richard Kraut’s John Dewey Lecture, “How I Am an Aristotelian,” given at the 2020 Central Division Meeting. The...
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview, Kjell Fostervold

Smrutipriya Pattnaik -
Kjell Fostervold is a PhD candidate at Indiana University, Bloomington. His work focuses on meaning in life, especially on the structure of meaningful lives,...
Law and Philosophy

Can Legal Obligations Arise From Mere Social Facts?

Eric Wilkinson -
What makes norms like paying taxes, wearing a seat-belt, or being forbidden from committing murder legally valid, obligatory, or binding? On one hand, natural...
Teaching

Engineers, Expertise, and Organizations: The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster

Gregory Convertito -
A central component of my Engineering Ethics course, which you can read more about in the Blog of the APA’s Syllabus Showcase series, is...
Graduate Student Chronicles

Authenticity as Resistance in Academic Spaces

Brianna Larson -
Before starting my Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati, I found myself in a unique position: I had never studied philosophy in a setting...
Current Events in Public Philosophy

Main Character Syndrome, or Why Everything Is Not About You

Virginia Moscetti -
A TikToker and her followers physically push aside an older couple inconveniently in her way, claiming that they are “ruining” her selfies—and then post...
APA

APA Member Interview: Keegan Brady

Jessica Castellani -
Keegan Brady is a student of mathematics and philosophy at UMass Lowell. He has interned under the mentorship of Dr. Alison McConwell, as well...
Philosophy and Technology

Intelligence is Always Artificial

Charlie Taben -
For Hegel, intelligence is always artificial. Indeed, there is nothing "natural" about understanding, consciousness, nor intelligence itself. We say certain behaviors come naturally to us. Most of...
Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy

The Weight and Limits of Academic Titles

Ionut Untea -
On April 6, 1980, Le Monde published an interview with a French intellectual, whose name was not disclosed at the time. It was later...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy

Elisabeth Paquette -
My book, Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy, was recently published this past March by University of Minnesota Press, and I should be...
Perspectives on Democracy

Time is Political

Martina Valković -
One of the ultimate measures of worth, in human life, is time. And yet, theories of justice, in their debates about “currencies” of justice,...
Research

Phenomenal Accuracy and Vivid Memory

Richard B. Gibson -
Here’s a tempting way to categorize our experiences, at least at first. On the one hand, let’s call some aspects of our experience "objective."...
Public Philosophy

The Meaningfulness Gap in AI Ethics

Martina Valković -
Artificial intelligence is no longer an exotic presence in our lives—it’s mundane. We use AI to choose meals, partners, movies, routes, jobs, even the...
Everyday Lifestyle

Mixed Martial Thoughts: On Philosophy and MMA

Giacomo Figà-Talamanca -
If I were to tell you that you’re going to read something about the relationship between martial arts and philosophy, you may think you’re...
APA

APA Announces the Milton K. Munitz Prize and Lenore Bloom Munitz Prize

APA Communications -
The American Philosophical Association (APA) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Milton K. Munitz Prize in Metaphysics, Ontology, and Cosmology and the...
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