Yearly Archives: 2026

2026
AI and Teaching

‘When Life Gives You LLMs’ – a teaching recipe for limiting the impacts of AI

William Fraker -
The way I teach my classes has changed more in the past three years than in my entire prior career. This change was forced...
Teaching

From a Polish Soccer Field to Philosophy: The Story Behind the Inference Studios Tournament

Smrutipriya Pattnaik -
In the summer of 2024, I played professional youth soccer for Ursus Warszawa in Poland, and I was racially abused by 200 supporters who...
Public Philosophy

Free to Speak, Not to Listen: Freedom of Expression in the Age of AI Chatbots

Martina Valković -
Can you lose your free speech even when you are not prevented from saying anything? To answer this question, let us consider two ways in...
Bioethics

Does Claude Need Review Board Protection?

Richard B. Gibson -
Review boards protect both humans and animals when we use them in research: humans by the Institutional Review Board (IRB), animals by the Institutional...
Public Philosophy

A Bridge, a Door and the Landscape Closer By

Martina Valković -
Standing atop a skyscraper, gazing out over the sea of buildings below, we may be tempted to call what lays before us an “urban...
Teaching

AI Pedagogies of Contra-Technological Resistance

Gregory Convertito -
Societies carry existing violences and discriminations into the technological apparatuses they produce. Never mind how we use those machines, we are complicit. In this...
Syllabus Showcase

Writing and Reading Philosophy, Iaan Reynolds

Cara Greene -
The syllabus here is from my second time teaching “Writing and Reading Philosophy” (PHIL 2400) this past spring at Utah Valley University. At a...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Reflections on Mapping an A–Z Philosophy BlackList

Michael Crawford -
Introduction First launched in 2025 as part of Black History Month programming, the project has grown into what is now titled the A–Z Philosophy BlackList,...
APA

2023 Central Division Presidential Address: The Lincoln Virtues

Erin Shepherd -
Below is the audio recording of Connie Rosati’s presidential address, “The Lincoln Virtues,” given at the 2023 Central Division Meeting. The full text is...
Public Philosophy

Kant Among the Penguins: Social Contract Theory for the Anthropocene

Martina Valković -
Penguins in Antarctica are adjusting their seasonal breeding practices at record rates for vertebrate animals. Three species of penguins (Adélie, Chinstrap, and Gentoo) have...
Current Events in Public Philosophy

Should You Boycott the World Cup?

Virginia Moscetti -
How should we think about sporting events hosted by nations who have routinely engaged in gross human rights violations? Take the case of a...
Member Interviews

APA Member Interview, David Anthony Hurst Jr.

Smrutipriya Pattnaik -
David Anthony Hurst Jr. is a graduate student at the University of Guelph with an aspiration of pursuing further education in the field of...
Philosophy and Technology

Democratized Speech and the Spread of Social Ills

Charlie Taben -
How the architecture of online platforms turns ordinary disagreement into something more contagious—and why the virus metaphor only gets us halfway there. Almost everything we...
Public Philosophy

Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Nepotism, Networking, and Structural Injustice

Martina Valković -
“Network, network, network” is the advice given to many job-seekers and for good reason. It is thought, for example, that over 60% of jobs...
Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy

Beyond Left and Right? Thinking Along the Lines of a Dividing Question

Ionut Untea -
Recently, the Foundation for Philosophical Orientation launched an essay contest asking a provocative question: “Is the left-right distinction still useful for political orientation?” I...