Yearly Archives: 2026

2026
Public Philosophy

“When You See This Sign…”: The Power of Silence in Propaganda

Martina Valković -
“The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic...
Issues in Philosophy

Philosophy as Children: Rethinking Adulthood as the Measure of Reason

Michael Crawford -
Philosophy continues to rely on a particular fiction of the knower. Serious thought is still imagined to require a subject who appears autonomous, self-regulating,...
Bioethics

Normothermic Regional Perfusion, the Dead Donor Rule, and the Metaphysics of Causation

Richard B. Gibson -
Over the last decade, a novel method of organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) known as normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) has come into widespread...
APA

APA Member Interview, Stacy S. Chen

Jessica Castellani -
Stacy S. Chen is a PhD candidate and SSHRC doctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

When Gender Policing Backfires

Elisabeth Paquette -
Recently, I was coming home from a conference, and I had just gotten through TSA at an airport that I had been to before....
Teaching

Combating “Opinion”: Gilles Deleuze Meets Timothy “Speed” Levitch

Gregory Convertito -
Below we find a clip from The Cruise, a 1998 documentary by Bennett Miller that follows the now-infamous New York City tour bus guide...
APA

2022 Eastern Division Dewey Lecture: “Thinking in Good Company”

Erin Shepherd -
Below is the audio recording of Christine M. Korsgaard’s John Dewey Lecture, “Thinking in Good Company,” given at the 2022 Eastern Division Meeting. The...
Public Philosophy

‘Totalitarian’ Technologies and the Transformation of the Political World: A Radical Cold War Critique

Martina Valković -
“The world in which we live today and which surrounds us, is a technological one,” wrote Günther Anders in 1979. The Cold War world,...
Public Philosophy

What’s Love Got to Do With It: Chatbot Wives and Lonely Hearts

Martina Valković -
As if stealing our data, copyrighted material including books, music, and films, and quite possibly many of our jobs, was not enough, AI seems...
APA

APA Member Interview, Emanuele Costa

Jessica Castellani -
Emanuele Costa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His work is at the intersection of early modern philosophy and...
Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy

Why We Should Stop “Networking”: On the Intrinsic Value of Connection

Ionut Untea -
The term networking has become ubiquitous today. From networking platforms such as LinkedIn to networking events at conferences, the practice of networking has become...
Perspectives on Democracy

Democratizing the Economy through Community Wealth Building: Recent Lessons from the UK and Poland

Martina Valković -
In a recent post in this series, Hannes Kuch presented the case for economic democracy. Just as we balk at the thought of being...
Public Philosophy

The Best Available Parent

Martina Valković -
Few things are more mundane than becoming a parent. One, or one’s partner, gives birth to a child; one takes the baby home, if...
Teaching

“Philosophical Projects: Bringing Everyday Life into Intro to Philosophy,” Mateo Duque

Smrutipriya Pattnaik -
I have been teaching Introduction to Philosophy at least once a year since 2012, beginning in my second year of graduate school at the...
Current Events in Public Philosophy

What May We Hope for After Thirty Years of Failed Climate Summits?

Virginia Moscetti -
In his 1795 essay Towards Perpetual Peace, Immanuel Kant prophesied that the “spirit of commerce” would drive countries to unite in perpetual peace, not...