Yearly Archives: 2025

APA Member Interview, Anna Boessenkool

Anna Boessenkool is a Philosophy PhD candidate at Boston College and Guest Academic Affiliate at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is currently...

Thermodynamic Insider Baseball (or: Why Philosophy of Physics Matters)

There’s something slightly awkward about being a philosopher in a room full of cosmologists. Of course, the other students in this 500-level physics course...

The Metaphysics Behind Putin’s War on Liberalism

Radical Conservatives like Dugin want to change our view of reality This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with...

Decolonizing Faith: Frantz Fanon, Liberation Theology, and the Struggle for Dignity

Introduction Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) and Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928–2024), both thinkers from the Global South, emerged from distinct geopolitical margins and intellectual traditions shaped by the...

Between Reason and Sensibility: Schiller’s Aesthetic Education

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

Changes, Bewilderment, and Philosophy

Two monks were arguing about a flag. One said: "The flag is moving." The other said: "The wind is moving." The sixth patriarch happened to be...

The Cost of Rotten Speech: Knowledge, Reason & Democracy

The previous post in this series looked at how Elon Musk’s attempt to transform X (formerly Twitter) into a digital town square—grounded in absolute free speech—ironically...

Mary Midgley and The Necessity of Philosophy

Mary Midgley has become an increasingly prominent name in recent years. This could be attributed to her passing in 2018, which, along with the...

Changing the Way We Teach Formal Philosophy

Which non-living philosopher do you identify with most? This question was posed to professional philosophers on the 2020 PhilPapers survey of philosophers (“For which...

Why the News Can Never Be Neutral, and What We Can Do About It

Pragmatism can solve journalism's truth problem This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of...

Fairness and Transgender Eligibility in Women’s Sport

What is fairness in sport? The popular imagination has been gripped by the image of transgender athletes in women's sport, but not enough attention...

2019 Pacific Division Presidential Address: Individual Well-Being and Social Justice

Below is the audio recording of Richard Arneson’s presidential address, “Individual Well-Being and Social Justice,” given at the 2019 Pacific Division Meeting. The full...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Four Realms of Existence

Joseph LeDoux has worked on emotion, memory, and consciousness in the brain since the mid-1970s. He is a Professor of Neural Science at New...

Free Speech and the Philosophy Classroom: The Wrong Question

Welcome to the APA Mini-Series Blog organized by the APA Committee on Professional Rights and Academic Freedom, formerly, the Committee on the Professional Rights of Philosophers. We...

APA Member Interview: Samuel Berrettini

Sam is a first-year PhD candidate in Boston University's joint program in Philosophy and Classical Studies. He works primarily on Plato's moral psychology, but is...