Yearly Archives: 2026

A New Three Volume Edition of Leibniz’s Philosophical Papers (1677–1686)

For a philosopher whose ideas have rippled across logic, metaphysics, mathematics, and beyond, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz remains surprisingly under-translated. Descartes has his Cambridge edition;...

Why Casting Isn’t Coming Out: Heated Rivalry and Sexual Orientation

The actors in Heated Rivalry don’t leave much to the imagination. While many viewers tuned in for the steamier shower, penthouse, or cabin scenes,...

Protesting For Our Humanity

Every Sunday for two years, from October 2023 to October 2025, protesters gathered in the center of Melbourne, Australia, to march against Israel’s war...

APA Member Interview: Felipe De Brigard

The APA Blog is publishing excerpts from Cliff Sosis’s long-form interviews with philosophers, which appear at his blog, What Is It Like to Be a...

The Oltrant: A Philosophical Hypothesis Beyond Duration and Memory

Can something meaningful exist in moments that do not persist? I began reflecting on this question from a concrete experience. During an extended interaction...

Seeing Ourselves Through Others: A Feminized and Uncultivated Form of Self-Consciousness?

A major achievement of feminist, antiracist, and other critical philosophies has been to disclose that seemingly neutral philosophical concepts are in fact (at least...

When Should We Argue?

Don’t feed the trolls arguments. When someone is wrong—on the Internet or in the coffee shop—the temptation to engage can be strong, even though it...

Copyediting and Philosophy, Part 2: Working with Copyeditors

The Issues in Philosophy Beat is running a three-part mini-series called “Copyediting and Philosophy,” which focuses on issues around copyediting relevant to the philosophy...

2022 Central Division Presidential Address: Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known

Below is the audio recording of Jennifer Lackey’s presidential address, “Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known,” given at the 2022 Central Division...

Feeling Like Oneself

When I was at graduate school I read a passage from John Campbell that lodged itself somewhere in my brain, where it has remained...

Meet the APA: Asha Bhandary

Asha Bhandary is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. She works in social and political philosophy as a feminist philosopher. Through her...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Why Plato Matters Now

Angie Hobbs is Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Sheffield. A leading scholar of ancient philosophy and its...

APA Member Interview: Shaun Gallagher

The APA Blog is publishing excerpts from Cliff Sosis's long-form interviews with philosophers, which appear at his blog, What Is It Like to Be a...

A Black Detective in the White House: The Residence

For Bob Grunst, the only twitcher I know “Unpredictable recurrence is not a sign of language's ambiguity but is a fact: of language, as such,...

Writing Matters

Does writing have a future? This eerily prophetic question was posed by media theorist and phenomenologist Vilém Flusser back in 1987. Amidst the ever-expanding use...