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Meet the APA: Lucy Santerre

Lucy Santerre is the APA’s Program Assistant for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s grant to support diversity institutes in philosophy. Introduction I am proud to say that joining the APA...

Sandy  Grant

Sandy Grant is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge and at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. She tweets at @TheSandyGrant. Tweet...

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...Pawliczek Lucy Pawliczek is a Program Assistant at the APA national office in Delaware, where she works on projects related to a diversity grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation....

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How playing Wittgensteinian language-games can set us free

We live out our lives amid a world of language, in which we use words to do things. Ordinarily we don’t notice this; we just get on with it. But...

Philosophy Is Not Advice

In these dark times, perhaps philosophy can help us. Perhaps. But what kind of philosophy do we need? It must be one that permits us to see what we are...

Stoicism Now: Conversation with Massimo Pigliucci

...a recent conversation on the blog, Sandy Grant argues that Stoicism thrived during slavery and women’s oppression, in which case it makes sense that Stoicism was popular then, because it...

Philosophy in Dark Times: Conversation with Sandy Grant

Sandy Grant is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge and at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. I spoke with Dr. Grant about philosophy’s role in the public sphere,...

Showing off is seen as insincere, but is it always bad?

Albert Einstein once said: ‘I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.’ In that quip is the claim that virtue does not parade itself. The virtuous do not show off. They...

APA Member Interview: Sandy Grant

Sandy Grant is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge and at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. She tweets at @TheSandyGrant. What excites you about philosophy? It is always...