Monthly Archives: January, 2026

Why I Support the Virtual APA: How I Hate Virtual Conferences and Why I Keep Attending Them

The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a mini-series called “Why I Support the Virtual APA.” This post marks the fourth and final installment....

2022 Eastern Division Presidential Address: How Is Forgiveness Always a Gift?

Below is the audio recording of Miranda Fricker’s presidential address, “How Is Forgiveness Always a Gift?” given at the 2022 Eastern Division Meeting. The...

The Perceptual World of Danger

Ludwig Wittgenstein claimed, “The world of a happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.” This is definitely true at least...

How to Handle the Death of the Essay

During our section on Existentialism and the meaning of life in the Introduction to Philosophy course that I just finished TA-ing this Fall, we...

Loving Attention and Aesthetic Appreciation

Might my love of Picasso make me a better partner? Can appreciating artworks improve my capacity for loving attention in my relationships? Philosophers of...

Teaching Normative and Applied Ethics: How, and to What End? Stephen Scher

My new book, Revitalizing Health Care Ethics: The Clinician’s Voice (2025)—co-authored with the psychiatrist Kasia Kozlowska of the University of Sydney Medical School—begins in...

The Moral Life of Organs in an Age of Technological Innovation

Introduction In medicine, technology can refer to anything from antibiotics like penicillin used to treat everyday infections and antivirals that suppress HIV, to dialysis circuits...

Of AI, Unreality and Our Planetary Reality

A few weeks ago, when it was still summer, my partner’s mother was worrying over the arrangements for her 70th birthday party, due to...

The Limits of “Indoctrination” Talk

Many recent debates about education have focused on the idea of indoctrination. The following dialectic is by now familiar: someone points to a concept,...

Not Yet: A Graduate Student’s First Publication

I sat across from my supervisors at the University of New England, discussing what I hoped would become my first peer-reviewed publication. The paper...

Why We Should Doubt that Academic Philosophy Benefits the Broader Public

This post was originally published on Kronika: filozofski magazin and has been republished with the permission of Kronika and the author. I. There are good reasons...

CPP and Ethics Bowl: Powerful Partners for Peace, Matt Deaton

Ethics Bowls are known for modeling the democratic ideal: high-brow, collaborative discussion about difficult moral and political matters. Participants author their own positions, are...

Shaping Each Other’s Vision: Collective Intentionality and the Zohran Mamdani Campaign

This year began with Zohran Mamdani taking office as the Mayor of New York City, after having run what has been widely lauded as...

Sartre and Freedom: Teaching Responsibility in May 1968, Luis Maurin Hakala

Paris, May 1968. Barricades rose in the Latin Quarter, tear gas filled the French boulevards, and students occupied the Sorbonne. What started as a...