Below is the audio recording of Gary Watson’s John Dewey Lecture, “Finding Philosophy,” given at the 2018 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text is...
Ryan Johnson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Elon University. Ryan’s books include Deleuze, A Stoic, Phenomenology of Black Spirit (co-written with...
The now classic movie-riffing series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), and its spinoffs such as Rifftrax, can tell us something about how to deal...
In my philosophy courses, I largely give take-home writing assignments. These are either focused on the course readings (no research required beyond the syllabus)...
On the first anniversary of the hanging of John Brown, December 3, 1860, abolitionists from Boston and around the country assembled in Tremont Temple...
Relatively few philosophers specialize in the philosophy of religion, but many teach an introductory problems course in which one usual topic is the existence...
In January 2023, Democratic state Reps. Carlos González and Judith A. García introduced HD 3822 into the Massachusetts legislature. The bill proposed establishing a...
“The benign prerogative of pardoning”
At the birth of the United States, Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 74 that “Humanity and good policy conspire to...
