Yearly Archives: 2026

2022 Central Division Dewey Lecture: The Question Is How to Live

Below is the audio recording of Allan Gibbard’s John Dewey Lecture, “The Question Is How to Live,” given at the 2022 Central Division Meeting....

Unironically Good? Hegel, Irony, and Nicolas Cage

When we think about irony, what comes to mind is often something like Socratic or dramatic irony. The first describes instances in which a...

APA Member Interview, Elena Comay del Junco

Elena Comay del Junco is Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on the history of philosophy, primarily Ancient...

The Ethics of Refugee Protection

Around 42.5 million refugees worldwide have been forced to flee their own states and are unable to return because of severe threats to their...

Survey and Community Conversation about APA Online Programming

As announced earlier this year, the APA’s three divisions collectively decided to suspend the  2+1 experiment, returning to hosting only in-person divisional meetings beginning...

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...