Yearly Archives: 2026

How to Walk Away

Breaking up with someone can be painful and difficult. Breakups can make you depressed and even damage your heart and immune system. For that...

Testimonial Injustice But With Questions:  Steps Towards a Theory

As philosophers and teachers, we often have the great privilege and responsibility of choosing what questions we ask. And when other people (including our...

Why is Health Good for You?

“Brush your teeth,” a mother says to her son. She’s exhausted. She spent a long day organizing a series of speaking events hosted by...

The Paradox of China’s Crypto Regulation and Capital Going Global (Part 1)

How China's Web3 Is Shifting from Token Finance to Data and State Credit On November 28, 2025, the People’s Bank of China convened a meeting...

Feminist Theory in Times of Racial Terror: Spillers, Hartman, Snorton

Feminist theory provides means for unshackling ourselves from restrictive cultural and social rules and practices, when it comes to gender relations and identities. But...

“King of the who?”: Monty Python on Rousseauian Legitimacy

In this short clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Arthur, King of the Britons, attempts to exercise his dominion over two...

Understanding Evil, Jaime Denison

In summer 2025, I was approached by the director of the Central New Mexico (CNM) Honors Program to teach the seminar Understanding Evil in...

Good Work and Economic Democracy

Many political philosophers argue that all people are entitled as a matter of justice to real access to good work: skilled work that affords...

Nostalgic Longing for Childhood

Within popular culture, literature, television, and film, nostalgia is often (if not invariably) associated with childhood. From Proust to Tarkovsky up to modern outputs...

APA Member Interview, Caroline Wall

Caroline Wall is a Ph.D. candidate at Boston University who works in ethics, value theory, and 19th-century history of philosophy. She has published on...

Recommendation: U.K. Spinoza Circle

This series on Philosophy and Technology has construed technology broadly, often focusing on the relationship among faith, science, and philosophy. Several pieces have discussed Spinoza, and...

Why We Need a Formal, Mandatory, and Remunerated “Citizen Lobby”

At the end of the twentieth century, the end of the Cold War suggested that freedom and democracy were the name of the game....

Secrecy, Democracy, Necessity

While transparency has become the constant refrain of democratic politics, executive branch officials consistently seek to insulate their activities from public scrutiny. A recurrent rationale...

Good Work and Class Conflict

Work, in the words of Karl Marx, is a “means of life” in two senses. It is, first of all, an instrument for human...

Invisible Disabilities in Graduate School

The APA and other academic institutions have made efforts to gather and report demographic information about persons in philosophy. One motivation for doing so...