Monthly Archives: June, 2026

“Fake Philanthropy and Faux Anonymity”: An Introduction to Human Nature through Larry David

I use the following clip from the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode “The Anonymous Donor” (May 2007) to discuss psychological and ethical egoism, and the...

Building Online Community and Mutual Mentorship, Part 1: 5 Practical Tips to Revolutionize Your Work-in-Progress Groups 

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...

QAnon, Crosswords, and Knowledge-Based Videogames: The Aesthetics of Inquiry

Some people think Hillary Clinton and other high-profile Democrats were part of a satanic cult drinking the blood of children at a Washington, D.C....

Between Traditions: Korean Philosophy and the Limits of Universality—Interview with Ph.D. Student Will Gilbert

The research of William Gilbert focuses on Korean Daoism, religious syncretism, and comparative philosophy—areas that remain underdeveloped even within the growing field of Korean...

A Reparative Approach to the Injustices of Displacement

The situations of refugees and displaced people cry out for moral repair. Uprooted by severe threats to their lives and liberty, they are forced...

APA Member Interview, Dr. Kelly Ann Cunningham

Dr. Kelly Ann Cunningham is currently a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Bentley University and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She received her PhD...

The Honesty Crisis

Honesty is under a lot of pressure today in areas of society ranging from politics to religion to celebrity culture to education. But honesty...

Backcasting: Why and How the Past and Present Drive the Future

Backcasting is one of several methods futurists use to understand possible futures. Futurists, of course, cannot “tell the future,” but they work hard to...

Can the Historical Materialist Be a Woman? On the Woman Question in Walter Benjamin

This year I agreed to be a part of a translation project: alongside two fellow academics, the aim was to translate the fifty-something page...

Who Defends Democracy and On What Grounds?

Democracies have been in decline, and many scholars are now rightly asking how this process can be halted. Much of the research on democratic...

2022 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy as Personal Quest and Collective Enterprise

Below is the audio recording of Margaret Gilbert’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy as Personal Quest and Collective Enterprise,” given at the 2022 Pacific Division...

Democratic Law in the State of Nature: A Kantian Reconstruction

A familiar puzzle sits at the heart of contemporary legal and political philosophy. On the one hand, rights are taken to exist prior to...

Depression as a Philosophical Problem: Rethinking the Meaning of Suffering in the Era of SSRIs

When I was sixteen, I was hospitalized for depression for six weeks and put on Prozac. At the time, I was taught that depression...

Evil in Narrative Fiction

Imagine you read Kant. You may disagree with him, you may be bored by his style, but you will persevere, for after all, he...

Socrates Would’ve Absolutely Adored ChatGPT

Go on, admit it—you use ChatGPT (or something like it) more than you are willing to admit. You use it for all sorts of...