Yearly Archives: 2026

What Accountability-Seeking Protest Can Tell Us About Democracy

What is the point of political protest? The answer seems to be that it depends on the kind of protest. In different real-life cases,...

Indigenous Antif*scism

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s work has been crucial to our understanding of the subjective and objective transformations necessary not merely to respond to colonization but...

Science and Culture in Latin America, Alejo Stark

Most introductory philosophy of science courses begin by presenting the traditional positivist view of science as objective, descriptive, and value-free, usually as a historical...

Something Stupid Like Philosophy

I do not come from a traditional background, nor have I ever been what we might consider by conventional standards a model student. In...

Science Denial: From Post-Truth to Post-Trust

Philosophers Stephen Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro open their book When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People with a dire warning. “Something is seriously wrong,”...

The Argument for Anti-War Pacifism

This post was originally published on Kronika: Filozofski magazin and has been republished with the permission of Kronika and the author. The basis of this...

Philosophy at the Threshold of Belonging

The idea of philosophy conjures images of old books and abstract debates. It tends to also be associated with the educated classes and privileged...

CES 2026: Wonders, Widgets, and a Few Red Flags

A few weeks ago, Las Vegas hosted my favorite show of the year: CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. Every January, I hatch elaborate plans...

Why Reflections on Teaching Philosophy Matter: A Call for Contributions

When Gustav Klimt unveiled Philosophy at the Vienna Secession in 1900, the painting didn’t attempt to explain philosophy so much as to evoke the...

Threading the Needle: Can We Respect Local Knowledge While Resisting Misinformation?

It’s common knowledge that we are awash in misinformation that can have severe negative consequences for society. When people hold false beliefs about the...

Solidarity, Self-Deprivation, and Selflessness

When a person or group of people lack a particular good, others will sometimes act in solidarity with them by depriving themselves of that...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy

Manuel Almagro is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Valencia. He is the author of The Rise of Polarization: Affects,...

APA Member Interview, Sophie Grace Chappell

Sophie Grace Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University, UK. She has been Executive Editor of The Philosophical Quarterly since 2021, and...

Marya Schechtman elected new APA board chair

The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that at its meeting last fall, the APA board of officers elected Prof. Marya Schechtman the...

In the Midst of a Crisis: Relational Liberalism and the Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Legitimacy

Contemporary democratic societies are in the midst of a legitimacy crisis. This crisis relates to different dimensions of democracy: a breakdown in meaningful representation...