Monthly Archives: February, 2026

Democratizing the Economy through Community Wealth Building: Recent Lessons from the UK and Poland

In a recent post in this series, Hannes Kuch presented the case for economic democracy. Just as we balk at the thought of being...

The Best Available Parent

Few things are more mundane than becoming a parent. One, or one’s partner, gives birth to a child; one takes the baby home, if...

“Philosophical Projects: Bringing Everyday Life into Intro to Philosophy,” Mateo Duque

I have been teaching Introduction to Philosophy at least once a year since 2012, beginning in my second year of graduate school at the...

What May We Hope for After Thirty Years of Failed Climate Summits?

In his 1795 essay Towards Perpetual Peace, Immanuel Kant prophesied that the “spirit of commerce” would drive countries to unite in perpetual peace, not...

APA Member Interview, Phil Corkum

Phil Corkum is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta; he previously taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He works on ancient...

Philosophy, Technology, and Mortality

This APA Blog series has broadly explored philosophy and technology with a throughline on the influence of technology and AI on well-being. This month’s post...

What Accountability-Seeking Protest Can Tell Us About Democracy

What is the point of political protest? The answer seems to be that it depends on the kind of protest. In different real-life cases,...

Indigenous Antif*scism

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s work has been crucial to our understanding of the subjective and objective transformations necessary not merely to respond to colonization but...

Science and Culture in Latin America, Alejo Stark

Most introductory philosophy of science courses begin by presenting the traditional positivist view of science as objective, descriptive, and value-free, usually as a historical...

Something Stupid Like Philosophy

I do not come from a traditional background, nor have I ever been what we might consider by conventional standards a model student. In...

Science Denial: From Post-Truth to Post-Trust

Philosophers Stephen Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro open their book When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People with a dire warning. “Something is seriously wrong,”...

The Argument for Anti-War Pacifism

This post was originally published on Kronika: Filozofski magazin and has been republished with the permission of Kronika and the author. The basis of this...

Philosophy at the Threshold of Belonging

The idea of philosophy conjures images of old books and abstract debates. It tends to also be associated with the educated classes and privileged...