Yearly Archives: 2025

From Winter to Summer in a Block Party Quilt

Coming to know your neighbors is patient, quiet, thoughtful work that can end up being domestic, fun, and comforting.  We are the stitchers of a collective quilt, the squares of which are patches of our contiguous living.

Radical Protest and Moral Justification

Imagine a protest. What do you see? Perhaps you imagined a demonstration: people marching, carrying hand-painted signs, singing songs, or chanting slogans. (“We are the...

Why should your students do the work?

Most philosophy teachers we know have adopted strikingly defensive positions on AI use in their classes. One faction—call them Luddites—rejects these novel “labor-saving” technologies...

Smart Ass Pawn: Ideology and Ideological Interpellation in The Wire

For the most part, The Wire (2002-2008) has been embraced by educators for its realism, for the way that it shows in almost journalistic...

Social and Political Philosophy, Idris Robinson

In Fall 2023 and again in Spring 2025, I taught Texas State University’s graduate-level Social and Political Philosophy course. My aim was to design...

Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala: A Review

How do our struggles to produce more rigorous ideas about liberation and decolonization relate to a variety of struggles across Abya Yala to produce...

All Rebels Risk Being Tyrants

This post was originally published by the Institute of Art and Ideas and is republished here with permission as part of the Blog of APA's partnership...

The Nature of Health and Disease in Clinical Settings

Consider a 50-year-old man named Doug who notices that his energy level and libido are lower than they used to be. He feels something...

Philosophers created academic freedom. It’s time to save it (again).

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...

APA Member Interview, Max Junbo Tao

Max Junbo Tao is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests encompass Chinese and comparative political philosophy,...

APA announces Spring 2025 prize winners

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following seven prizes for the first half of 2025. APA prizes recognize many areas of...

How to Preserve Privacy in the Age of Mass Surveillance: Democracy or Technology?

It is obvious to most people that we live in an age of mass surveillance. The proliferation of digital technologies and the gadgets that...

Julia Kristeva’s Philosophical Revolutions

My title riffs on the article penned by Kelly Oliver called “Julia Kristeva’s Feminist Revolutions” in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, which aimed...

Kant and Democracy: Problems and Possibilities

Year 2024 was a historic year for democracy. It is estimated that over 4 billion people—that is, roughly half of humanity—voted in national elections...

Doing What’s Done

Say what you like against civilization, it comes in dashed handy in a crisis like this. It may be a purely artificial code that...