Yearly Archives: 2026

2022 Eastern Division Dewey Lecture: “Thinking in Good Company”

Below is the audio recording of Christine M. Korsgaard’s John Dewey Lecture, “Thinking in Good Company,” given at the 2022 Eastern Division Meeting. The...

‘Totalitarian’ Technologies and the Transformation of the Political World: A Radical Cold War Critique

“The world in which we live today and which surrounds us, is a technological one,” wrote Günther Anders in 1979. The Cold War world,...

What’s Love Got to Do With It: Chatbot Wives and Lonely Hearts

As if stealing our data, copyrighted material including books, music, and films, and quite possibly many of our jobs, was not enough, AI seems...

APA Member Interview, Emanuele Costa

Emanuele Costa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His work is at the intersection of early modern philosophy and...

Why We Should Stop “Networking”: On the Intrinsic Value of Connection

The term networking has become ubiquitous today. From networking platforms such as LinkedIn to networking events at conferences, the practice of networking has become...

Democratizing the Economy through Community Wealth Building: Recent Lessons from the UK and Poland

In a recent post in this series, Hannes Kuch presented the case for economic democracy. Just as we balk at the thought of being...

The Best Available Parent

Few things are more mundane than becoming a parent. One, or one’s partner, gives birth to a child; one takes the baby home, if...

“Philosophical Projects: Bringing Everyday Life into Intro to Philosophy,” Mateo Duque

I have been teaching Introduction to Philosophy at least once a year since 2012, beginning in my second year of graduate school at the...

What May We Hope for After Thirty Years of Failed Climate Summits?

In his 1795 essay Towards Perpetual Peace, Immanuel Kant prophesied that the “spirit of commerce” would drive countries to unite in perpetual peace, not...

APA Member Interview, Phil Corkum

Phil Corkum is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta; he previously taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He works on ancient...

Philosophy, Technology, and Mortality

This APA Blog series has broadly explored philosophy and technology with a throughline on the influence of technology and AI on well-being. This month’s post...

What Accountability-Seeking Protest Can Tell Us About Democracy

What is the point of political protest? The answer seems to be that it depends on the kind of protest. In different real-life cases,...

Indigenous Antif*scism

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s work has been crucial to our understanding of the subjective and objective transformations necessary not merely to respond to colonization but...

Science and Culture in Latin America, Alejo Stark

Most introductory philosophy of science courses begin by presenting the traditional positivist view of science as objective, descriptive, and value-free, usually as a historical...

Something Stupid Like Philosophy

I do not come from a traditional background, nor have I ever been what we might consider by conventional standards a model student. In...