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APA Member Interview: Eugene Y.S. Chua

...Black Hole” L. Short’s “Charles Peirce and Modern Science” “The Pragmatist Challenge: Pragmatist Metaphysics for Philosophy of Science” (edited by Holly K. Anderson and Sandra D. Mitchell) On the fiction...

Can You See Something Better than Philosophy?

...1990s through the Chicago Family Centers explained in Dan and Sandra Scheinfeld and Karen Haigh’s We Are All Explorers. So too music has made some of us more thoughtful with...

Sandra D. Mitchell

Sandra D. Mitchell is distinguished professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and author of Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity and Policy (University...

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...Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research...

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Frances Power Cobbe and Nineteenth-Century Moral Philosophy

...In 1897 the American suffragist Frances Willard said of Cobbe that ‘distinguished critical authorities have assigned her the rank of greatest among living English women’. Cobbe’s biographer Ellen Mitchell agrees:...

APA Announces Fall 2019 Prize Winners

...Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest: Brendan de Kenessey (University of Toronto), “People Are Dying because We Misunderstand How Those with Addiction Think” Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (Sam Houston State University), “The Mirror Test...

Trump’s War on Fact-Finding

Transparency about errors is a strength of journalism and science, not a weakness. On February 20, 2019, President Donald J. Trump tweeted “The New York Times reporting is false. They...

An Unknown American Contribution to the German Pessimism Controversy: Amalie J. Hathaway’s ‘Schopenhauer’

...work published in the current year, The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook, by Sandra Shapshay, contains no mentions not only of Hathaway but of Mitchell, Cobbe, Plumacher, or any of the other...

Eastern APA 2017: Biological Complexity and Race in Pop Culture

...Beginning with biological complexity, the presenters were interested in showing how complexity affects epistemological and ontological approaches to studying the world. The first presenter, Sandra Mitchell, emphasized that when we...