Yearly Archives: 2026

A Customizable Rawls Game for the Philosophy Classroom

Editable character cards for this game are available for download at the end of this post. The genius of John Rawls’s Original Position thought experiment...

APA Member Interview, J. Angelo Corlett

J. Angelo Corlett (PhD, 1992, University of Arizona) is Professor of Philosophy & Ethics at San Diego State University. He specializes in Philosophy of...

The Political Morality of Reconstruction: An Interpretivist Justification of Mixed-Method Judicial Review

In its 2022 decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of legal precedent protecting the...

Bad Institutions and What We Can Do About Them

A popular category of research in political philosophy is the finding of flaws with political institutions. For example, in recent work, some political philosophers...

The South African Configuration of Fascistic Man: A Preliminary Conceptual Sketch of Afrikanerdom Fascism and the Philo-Mythical Continuum of Techno-Afrikanerdom in Silicon Valley

This short philosophical exposition uncovers the key principles inherent in the mythic schema developed in “Afrikanerdom Technofascism.” I track the development of the mythic...

2024 Central Division Presidential Address: Who Am I and How Did I Get Here?

Below is the audio recording of Marya Schechtman’s presidential address, “Who Am I and How Did I Get Here?” given at the 2024 Central...

Triangulation Gone Amok

It’s midterm election season in the U.S., and some of the senate races that will define the legislative balance of power over the next...

APA Member Interview: Rachel Zuckert

Rachel Zuckert grew up in Northfield, Minnesota. She studied philosophy at Williams College, Oxford University, and the University of Chicago. She has taught at...

Beyond Pathology and Superpower: Neurodivergence and the Multiplicity of Epistemic Injustice

Upon being diagnosed with autism back in 2023, I was struck by the two distinct reactions I encountered, which I label (a) the pathology...

Taking the Place of the Stranger: Leibniz and the Ethics of Migration

A border looks different depending on which side of it one stands. To a citizen, it may appear as a line of defense: a...

Trust the System: Democratic Capacities in the Algorithmic Workplace (Part III)

In the previous post, I considered the depersonalization of authority, and the role of judgment and deliberation, in algorithmic workplaces. To end this series,...

Sugar-Coating Racist Speech

“Packing our message inside of existing cultural memes and humor can be viewed as a delivery method. Something like adding cherry flavor to children's...

APA Member Interview, Rida Jafar

Rida Jafar is an MA student in Philosophy at the University of Guelph. She is interested in the ethics and phenomenology of human-machine integration,...

Asian/American Women: Resistance against Invisibility

In the collection Making More Waves (1997), Asian/American activist Helen Zia raises a question: “Where are the Asian women?” By reviewing violent crimes against...

Silence in Mood Disorders

We tend to assume that silence in and around mental illness is harmful and socially imposed. It is an assumption drilled into us by...