Monthly Archives: June, 2026

Building Online Community and Mutual Membership, Part 2: Pushing the Peanut Forward; Why Our Supportive Work-In-Progress Group Is Still Going After Eight Years

The Diversity and Inclusiveness Beat is running a two-part mini-series titled "Building Online Community and Mutual Mentorship." This mini-series is co-authored by Cheryl Frazier...

Who Is Building the Wall?

Magnifica Humanitas, Anthropic, and the Future of AI Unable to escape the stream of media commentary surrounding Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical on safeguarding humanity...

Camus and Confronting the Horror of the Everyday Absurd

Albert Camus (1913–1960) has been one of my favorite philosophical writers writing about existence since my undergraduate days long ago. Camus was a playwright,...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist

David Bather Woods is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, particularly philosophical...

APA Member Interview, Brant Entrekin

Brant Entrekin is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who works in social/political philosophy, applied ethics, and feminist philosophy. He...

Jedda and the Racial Logic of Cinema’s Platonic Cave

Charles Chauvel’s Jedda (1955) holds an important place in the history of Australian cinema. Long considered a classic, it tells the tale of a...

The Politics and Ethics of Autocratic Elections

Why do many autocrats hold at least somewhat competitive elections? And how should democrats engage, if at all, in such elections? Assuming that the...

Asking What Philosophers are Asking: A Question-Focused Reading Strategy 

In this blog post, I describe a new assignment and reading strategy I am developing for upper-level classes. The pedagogy is a question-focused pedagogy...

2023 Eastern Division Presidential Address: Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to Large Language Models

Below is the audio recording of David Chalmers’s presidential address, “Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? From Pure Thinkers to Large Language Models,” given at...

Gig Work, Planning Agency, and the Relevance of Outside Options

Brightly clad delivery drivers, darting in and out of restaurants and traversing the city on bicycles, mopeds, or in cars, have become a persistent...

Meet the APA: Lauren Ashwell

Lauren Ashwell moved from her native New Zealand to the U.S. twenty-three years ago to do a Ph.D. at MIT. She now teaches at...

Dementia & Decision-Making: Why We Should Center Legacy in End-of-Life Care Planning

Dementia affects over 50 million people worldwide, and that number is only expected to increase as populations age and the average lifespan increases. At...

Becoming Hard: The Manosphere as Radicalization Conveyer Belt for the Neofascist Far Right

The rise of the “manosphere” online, bringing together “pickup artists” (PUAs), “incels” (involuntary celibates), “men going their own way” (MGTOWs), men’s rights activists (MRAs),...

APA Member Interview, Lucas Declavasio

Lucas DeClavasio is an MA student at the University of Guelph. He is in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence program and his research focuses...

APA announces spring 2026 prize winners

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the following seven prizes for the first half of 2026. APA prizes recognize many areas of...