Monthly Archives: May, 2026

When Society Stops Knowing How to Know

Over the past two decades, we have watched the pillars of public knowledge gradually weaken. John Stuart Mill is probably turning in his grave...

APA Members Interview, Megan Craig

Megan Craig is an artist, essayist, and Associate Professor Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Levinas and James: Toward a...

Immanence All the Way Down (and Across): Horizontal Transcendence in First Reformed

Paul Schrader crafted his 2018 film First Reformed to be, among other things, an extended phenomenological argument that transcendence requires moving beyond the physical...

AI and Teaching: Inviting Reflections on Teaching in the Age of AI

In my recent discussion sections for Philosophy of Science at UCLA, we’ve been working through Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn famously lays...

Sisyphus in the Kitchen: The Tradwife Brand and the Closed Menu of Women’s Lives

Nostalgia, “Again,” and Who Gets to Count The slogan: “Make America Great Again” works by inviting us to long for a past that was ordered,...

Philosophy?! Here’s What to do with That

Students are not typically taught philosophy during their K-12 years, so few know what to expect when they sign up for my Introduction to...

2022 Pacific Division Presidential Address: Democratic Representation as Duty Delegation

Below is the audio recording of Seana Shiffrin’s presidential address, “Democratic Representation as Duty Delegation,” given at the 2022 Pacific Division Meeting. The full...

Occupational Choice, Liberal Freedom, and Social Necessity

Occupational choice is for many an existential and deeply personal matter. An avowed goal of liberal societies has always been to permit citizens to...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Oppressive Praise

Jules Holroyd is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Their recent book, Oppressive Praise (Oxford University Press), was shortlisted for the...

APA Member Interview, Eva Dadlez

Eva Dadlez is Professor Emerita of philosophy at the University of Central Oklahoma and currently resides in Ithaca, NY. She received her PhD from...

Sinking From Submarines: The Rules of Naval Warfare

We don’t often spend a lot of time thinking about the morality of submarine warfare. It’s a small and secretive world that rarely seeks attention. It...

Returning to Plato’s Cave: Dislodging the Individualist Distortion

Wisecrack’s 8-Bit Philosophy video on Plato’s cave raises the question of what is real by providing a summary of the episode from Plato’s Republic—using...

Haley Irene Burke, Aesthetics: Philosophy of Art & Beauty

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of the Incarnate Word. At the heart of its Mission Statement is...

Speaking Through Action: Open Rescue as Moral Assertion

Ridglan Farms in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin is a breeder of beagles for scientific research. It’s been a target of animal activism for about a...

Copyediting and Philosophy, Part 3: Language, Power, and Copyediting

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...