Monthly Archives: February, 2026

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Recently Published Book Spotlight

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics: A Cinematic Exploration

Richard B. Gibson -
Patrick D. Anderson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Central State University and a recipient of a 2025 American Council of Learned Societies...
Public Philosophy

Will Pricing Algorithms Spell the End of the Fair Market Price?

Alexandra Frye -
I hate haggling. I spent a lot of my life living and working in countries across the Asia-Pacific, where open negotiation for purchases is...
Public Philosophy

The Humanities Challenge: Expanding the Circle of Philosophy

Martina Valković -
“Philosophy is, or should be, a kind of magic. It is not an escape from but rather a new window—or many windows—onto our lives....
Philosophy of Film

Dune’s Discomfort with Religion

Nathan Eckstrand -
Every adaptation puts a spin on the source material. Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), by director Denis Villeneuve, are infused...
Public Philosophy

“When You See This Sign…”: The Power of Silence in Propaganda

Martina Valković -
“The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic...
Issues in Philosophy

Philosophy as Children: Rethinking Adulthood as the Measure of Reason

Michael Crawford -
Philosophy continues to rely on a particular fiction of the knower. Serious thought is still imagined to require a subject who appears autonomous, self-regulating,...
Bioethics

Normothermic Regional Perfusion, the Dead Donor Rule, and the Metaphysics of Causation

Richard B. Gibson -
Over the last decade, a novel method of organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) known as normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) has come into widespread...
APA

APA Member Interview, Stacy S. Chen

Jessica Castellani -
Stacy S. Chen is a PhD candidate and SSHRC doctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

When Gender Policing Backfires

Elisabeth Paquette -
Recently, I was coming home from a conference, and I had just gotten through TSA at an airport that I had been to before....
Teaching

Combating “Opinion”: Gilles Deleuze Meets Timothy “Speed” Levitch

Gregory Convertito -
Below we find a clip from The Cruise, a 1998 documentary by Bennett Miller that follows the now-infamous New York City tour bus guide...
APA

2022 Eastern Division Dewey Lecture: “Thinking in Good Company”

Erin Shepherd -
Below is the audio recording of Christine M. Korsgaard’s John Dewey Lecture, “Thinking in Good Company,” given at the 2022 Eastern Division Meeting. The...
Public Philosophy

‘Totalitarian’ Technologies and the Transformation of the Political World: A Radical Cold War Critique

Martina Valković -
“The world in which we live today and which surrounds us, is a technological one,” wrote Günther Anders in 1979. The Cold War world,...
Public Philosophy

What’s Love Got to Do With It: Chatbot Wives and Lonely Hearts

Martina Valković -
As if stealing our data, copyrighted material including books, music, and films, and quite possibly many of our jobs, was not enough, AI seems...
APA

APA Member Interview, Emanuele Costa

Jessica Castellani -
Emanuele Costa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His work is at the intersection of early modern philosophy and...
Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy

Why We Should Stop “Networking”: On the Intrinsic Value of Connection

Ionut Untea -
The term networking has become ubiquitous today. From networking platforms such as LinkedIn to networking events at conferences, the practice of networking has become...