Monthly Archives: August, 2026

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Teaching

Making a Space for Ethics: Santa Fe College’s Ethics Club

Smrutipriya Pattnaik -
Ethics, as a field of study, is often overlooked when students consider their career paths. Some incoming students may see it as a subject...
Public Philosophy

When AI Escapes the Sandbox

Alexandra Frye -
OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Why A Kill Switch Is Not Enough A few weeks ago, OpenAI reported that, during a cybersecurity training exercise, several of...
Recently Published Book Spotlight

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Death in a Shallow Pond

Richard B. Gibson -
David Edmonds is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He is the author or...
APA

APA Member Interview: Graham Curtiss-Rowlands

Jessica Castellani -
Graham Curtiss-Rowlands is a philosophy PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis, who works primarily on social, political, and moral epistemology. His first...
Philosophy of Film

How Widow’s Bay Supports a Mystic Epistemology

Sara Bizarro -
Nathan Eckstrand is an editor at the Blog of the APA. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not...
AI and Teaching

Offloading to AI Means Not Doing Philosophy: on the importance of exploring the space of ideas

William Fraker -
When I write philosophy, my task is not merely to generate the most persuasive argument for some target claim. Rather, my task is to...
APA

2026 Lebowitz Prize Awarded to Philosophers De Brigard and Robins

APA Communications -
The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦBK) are pleased to announce that Dr. Felipe De Brigard, Professor of Philosophy,...
APA

2023 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Great Timing but Disputed Tools

Erin Shepherd -
Below is the audio recording of Ann Garry’s John Dewey Lecture, “Great Timing but Disputed Tools,” given at the 2023 Pacific Division Meeting. The...
Public Philosophy

When Are Your Feelings Really Yours?

Martina Valković -
Until the fall of 2008, I would have said I wasn’t afraid of mice. But then, in that fateful autumn, I went to my...
APA

APA Members Interview, Edward DeLaquil

Jessica Castellani -
Edward DeLaquil is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at NTNU—Norwegian University of Science and Technology. After completing his PhD at...
Law and Philosophy

How to Partition Alberta

Eric Wilkinson -
On October 19, 2026, Albertans will vote on whether their province should secede from Canada. Except that isn’t quite right. Albertans will vote on...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Interview with the New Co-Editor of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women in Philosophy Series

Elisabeth Paquette -
Could you tell us more about yourself? What do you think our readers should know about you? About myself? I am a daughter, sister, friend,...
Syllabus Showcase

Philosophy of Forensic Science, Kathryn Petrozzo

Cara Greene -
In the past few decades, there has been a meteoric rise in fascination with forensic science. The advent of true crime podcasts, internet forums,...
Public Philosophy

Incongruity, Humor, and Morality in Song

Martina Valković -
In the 1940s and 1950s, as part of a federal pest and rodent control program, pigeons in Boston were fed corn that had been...
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview: Michael Crawford

Smrutipriya Pattnaik -
Michael Crawford is Beat Editor for Research/Diversity and Inclusiveness. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Furman University and his M.A. in philosophy from...