Monthly Archives: April, 2026

The Oltrant: A Philosophical Hypothesis Beyond Duration and Memory

Can something meaningful exist in moments that do not persist? I began reflecting on this question from a concrete experience. During an extended interaction...

Seeing Ourselves Through Others: A Feminized and Uncultivated Form of Self-Consciousness?

A major achievement of feminist, antiracist, and other critical philosophies has been to disclose that seemingly neutral philosophical concepts are in fact (at least...

When Should We Argue?

Don’t feed the trolls arguments. When someone is wrong—on the Internet or in the coffee shop—the temptation to engage can be strong, even though it...

Copyediting and Philosophy, Part 2: Working with Copyeditors

The Issues in Philosophy Beat is running a three-part mini-series called “Copyediting and Philosophy,” which focuses on issues around copyediting relevant to the philosophy...

2022 Central Division Presidential Address: Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known

Below is the audio recording of Jennifer Lackey’s presidential address, “Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known,” given at the 2022 Central Division...

Feeling Like Oneself

When I was at graduate school I read a passage from John Campbell that lodged itself somewhere in my brain, where it has remained...

Meet the APA: Asha Bhandary

Asha Bhandary is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. She works in social and political philosophy as a feminist philosopher. Through her...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Why Plato Matters Now

Angie Hobbs is Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Sheffield. A leading scholar of ancient philosophy and its...

APA Member Interview: Shaun Gallagher

The APA Blog is publishing excerpts from Cliff Sosis's long-form interviews with philosophers, which appear at his blog, What Is It Like to Be a...

A Black Detective in the White House: The Residence

For Bob Grunst, the only twitcher I know “Unpredictable recurrence is not a sign of language's ambiguity but is a fact: of language, as such,...

Writing Matters

Does writing have a future? This eerily prophetic question was posed by media theorist and phenomenologist Vilém Flusser back in 1987. Amidst the ever-expanding use...

Ethics, Economics, and Entrepreneuership, James Murphy

Several years ago, I took over teaching an interdisciplinary elective in the Management Department at Loyola’s Quinlan School of Business entitled “Ethics, Economics, and...

Why We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now: Neurophilosophy and AI

The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation “artificial intelligence” (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am...

Towards a Conception of Systemic Discrimination

What is involved in seeing discrimination as systemic and structural, and how could such an approach help us identify injustices, or aspects of injustices,...

When Jokes Won’t Do: Affective Shifts in U.S. Late-Night Comedy

The news these days seems dire, so much so that people are opting out. News avoidance is a rapidly increasing phenomenon, mainly because a...