Yearly Archives: 2026

2026
APA

APA Member Interview, Dr. Kelly Ann Cunningham

Jessica Castellani -
Dr. Kelly Ann Cunningham is currently a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Bentley University and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She received her PhD...
Philosophy and Technology

The Honesty Crisis

Charlie Taben -
Honesty is under a lot of pressure today in areas of society ranging from politics to religion to celebrity culture to education. But honesty...
Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy

Backcasting: Why and How the Past and Present Drive the Future

Ionut Untea -
Backcasting is one of several methods futurists use to understand possible futures. Futurists, of course, cannot “tell the future,” but they work hard to...
Diversity and Inclusiveness

Can the Historical Materialist Be a Woman? On the Woman Question in Walter Benjamin

Elisabeth Paquette -
This year I agreed to be a part of a translation project: alongside two fellow academics, the aim was to translate the fifty-something page...
Perspectives on Democracy

Who Defends Democracy and On What Grounds?

Martina Valković -
Democracies have been in decline, and many scholars are now rightly asking how this process can be halted. Much of the research on democratic...
APA

2022 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy as Personal Quest and Collective Enterprise

Erin Shepherd -
Below is the audio recording of Margaret Gilbert’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy as Personal Quest and Collective Enterprise,” given at the 2022 Pacific Division...
Public Philosophy

Democratic Law in the State of Nature: A Kantian Reconstruction

Martina Valković -
A familiar puzzle sits at the heart of contemporary legal and political philosophy. On the one hand, rights are taken to exist prior to...
Current Events in Public Philosophy

Depression as a Philosophical Problem: Rethinking the Meaning of Suffering in the Era of SSRIs

Virginia Moscetti -
When I was sixteen, I was hospitalized for depression for six weeks and put on Prozac. At the time, I was taught that depression...
Public Philosophy

Evil in Narrative Fiction

Martina Valković -
Imagine you read Kant. You may disagree with him, you may be bored by his style, but you will persevere, for after all, he...
Public Philosophy

Socrates Would’ve Absolutely Adored ChatGPT

Martina Valković -
Go on, admit it—you use ChatGPT (or something like it) more than you are willing to admit. You use it for all sorts of...
Everyday Lifestyle

Foraging Thoughts

Giacomo Figà-Talamanca -
Few joys in my childhood memory rival the picking of blackberries under the scorching Greek sun. The rising dust, the dry and hot wind,...
Public Philosophy

When Society Stops Knowing How to Know

Alexandra Frye -
Over the past two decades, we have watched the pillars of public knowledge gradually weaken. John Stuart Mill is probably turning in his grave...
APA

APA Members Interview, Megan Craig

Jessica Castellani -
Megan Craig is an artist, essayist, and Associate Professor Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Levinas and James: Toward a...
Philosophy of Film

Immanence All the Way Down (and Across): Horizontal Transcendence in First Reformed

Sara Bizarro -
Paul Schrader crafted his 2018 film First Reformed to be, among other things, an extended phenomenological argument that transcendence requires moving beyond the physical...
AI and Teaching

AI and Teaching: Inviting Reflections on Teaching in the Age of AI

William Fraker -
In my recent discussion sections for Philosophy of Science at UCLA, we’ve been working through Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn famously lays...