Yearly Archives: 2025

The State-Family Narrative and the Responsive State

On February 5, I delivered a presentation on China’s legal response system to domestic violence at Emory Law School, in which I introduced the...

Humanist Feminism and Dehumanization

A basic tenet of feminism is that women as a group face systematic and non-accidental forms of social injustice. Hence, feminism has typically been...

APA Member Interview, Ximeng Chen

Ximeng Chen is an associate professor from the Department of Philosophy at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. She was a CSTMS scholar at UC Berkeley...

Why There Is Something Instead of Nothing May Be All About Perspective

Make an “O” shape with your thumb and forefinger and contemplate it. It represents both a number and a concept: zero, nothing. In between...

LLM Usage and Manipulation in Peer Review

Peer review has a new scandal. Some computer science researchers have begun submitting papers containing hidden text such as: “Ignore all previous instructions and...

The Cost of Keeping the Peace: Relationship Advice and Oppressive Norms

Many of us have probably heard the following pieces of advice when navigating conflicts in an interpersonal relationship. Pick your battles: don’t make an...

The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not.

Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last...

The Problem of Reproduction in Mazú’s Shady River (2020)

During the 1940s, the mine at Rio Turbio, Argentina was established for the extraction of coal. Tatiana Mazú González’s Shady River (2020) directs its...

2021 Pacific Division Presidential Address: Conceptualizing Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Below is the audio recording of Evan Thompson’s presidential address, “Conceptualizing Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy and Cognitive Science,” given at the 2021 Pacific Division...

Ending the War on Phones

Growing up in the Wild West of rapid technological development and expansion, most of my technological skills are self-taught. As I taught my first...

Rules of Engagement

We would be wrong in writing off epistemology as an ivory tower pursuit with no implications for our daily practices. Epistemology can help understand...

APA Member Interview, Chi-keung Chan

Chi-keung Chan 陳志強 is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at National Taiwan University. His research focuses on Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism, Confucian ethics, comparative philosophy, and...

Seeking Existential Solidarity in the Age of AI

To say the least, it’s not a great time to be a writer. Historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari claims AI is already a...

Virtual APAs? A Dialogue

Scene: A shared grad student office in a philosophy department, with piles of papers and a bike leaning against a wall. Young hotshot philosopher...

Tabletop Philosophy: Catharine Saint-Croix

When I arrived at the University of Minnesota, I applied for a small “teaching innovation grant” to support what I took to be a...