Yearly Archives: 2025

Are We Free to Act or Determined by Causality?

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

A Call to Public Scholars During Turbulent Times

In Race Matters, Cornel West anticipates a dilemma that continues to shape American intellectual life. He observes that the massive growth of the Academy...

APA Member Interview, Zara Anwarzai

Zara Anwarzai is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University whose work sits at the intersection of Philosophy and Cognitive Science. She focuses on...

Stamps, Sex, and Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir is often remembered as a formidable philosopher, feminist theorist, and novelist—one who reshaped modern thought on freedom, gender, and ethics. Yet...

Race and Animals, Maya von Ziegesar

I taught this course at Wesleyan University in Spring 2025 to a class of 15 students, mostly seniors and sophomores. I was tasked the...

A long and winding path to philosophy through the law

It took me a long time to get to academic philosophy—in fact, most of my life. I didn’t major in philosophy in college, but...

Black Boxes, Clear Duties: Owning AI Risk When the Guardrails Are Gone

As AI adoption accelerates, the consequences—intended and not—are becoming harder to ignore. From biased algorithms to opaque decision-making and chatbot misinformation, companies are increasingly...

The Shock of the Old: The Epistemic Challenge of Personal Transformation

“You’ll get over it.” “You’ll find someone else.” “Plenty more fish in the sea.” This is advice frequently given to someone going through a crushing...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People

This blog post is adapted from Emily Herring’s biography of Henri Bergson, Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the...

Art’s Plain Art of Living

How might an artwork function to let its artist avoid accountability in their life, and how might it function to help them become accountable in their life?

Palestinian Territorial Rights (and the One-State Solution)

The events of October 7, 2023 and Israel’s subsequent war on Gaza are the subject of strong media attention, which is surely important. Yet...

Ordinary Monsters in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

In 2005, when Star Wars and Philosophy was published, one of the highlights was a chapter by Richard Dees, “Moral Ambiguity in a Black-and-White...

The Privacy of First-Personal Perspective: Engaging with Indian Philosophy on Cosmopsychism

Imagine coming across a red flower—you will experience it from your own first-person perspective: you may smell its scent, recall seeing it before, and...

2021 Eastern Division Dewey Lecture: The Whole Function of Philosophy

Below is the audio recording of Philip Kitcher’s John Dewey Lecture, “The Whole Function of Philosophy,” given at the 2021 Eastern Division Meeting, which...

How Disability Affects Well-being

What is the relationship between disability and well-being? (In this post, I’ll call this the Relationship Question.) The Relationship Question is both enormously complex...