Yearly Archives: 2026

What About Knowledge That No Longer Knows What It Is For?

This post was originally published in Kronika: Filozofski magazin as “Što sa znanjem koje više ne zna čemu služi?” It has been translated by the author and...

Is the Household Obsolete? Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Economy, Androcentrism, and the Socialization of Care

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) is well known to lovers of Gothic horror for her acclaimed story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892). This story, considered one...

How to Deal with Online Virtue Signaling

You’ve had a long day at work and come home wanting to unwind. You decide to scroll through your social media just to pass...

APA Member Interview, Chloe W. Chang

Chloe Wanghuige Chang was a manager in the business and fashion industry, but always felt that something was missing in her pursuit, until she...

Using the Absurd: How Erasmus Challenges His Students

The Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, more often called Erasmus of Rotterdam, is well known for his satirical Praise of Folly, his letters, and his...

The Feminine as Structural Problem 

Twelve years ago, I committed to a life in philosophy—knowing it meant poverty and prolonged adolescence. Years of it. Maybe forever, given the job...

Gratitude, Belonging, and Philosophy

I came to philosophy somewhat by accident. I am from a bureaucratic, military-dominated area of Northern Virginia; almost everyone I went to high school...

The Risks of AI Recording Devices and Note-Taking Assistants in the Classroom

Recently, US classrooms have dealt with several forms of authoritarian and dystopian policies, ranging from Texas A&M banning Plato to UNC Chapel Hill secretly...

Dystopian Futures: Anthropic and the Department of Defense

Fantastical imaginings of a bleak and desolate end-state of mankind, characterized by environmental disasters, tyrannical governments, or some other cataclysmic decline, have been around...

Let Kids Be Kids? The Ethics of Maximizing Children’s Talents

Sam is fourteen years old. He spends hardly any time with friends or family. Every day, before or after school, or both, and every...

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Aesthetics and Video Games

Christopher Bartel is Professor of Philosophy at Appalachian State University and Adjunct Research Fellow with the Practical and Public Ethics Research Group at Charles...

APA Member Interview, Christian Culak

Christian Culak is a moral philosopher concurrently lecturing at Texas A&M University-San Antonio and the University of Texas at San Antonio. When he’s not...

Love Is All a Matter of Timing

The Allegory of the Gynoids in Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 Many films are about love, but Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 is about love in a deeper sense....

Why “Service” and “Giving Back” Get It Wrong

We need fresh terms for what we refer to as “service” or “giving back.” I say this as someone who taught for 27 years...

Distracting Metaphors

Metaphors are great. They can make us see something in a new light: Think of universities as the beating heart of humanity and see...