Mission

Contact

Masthead

Partners

Community Guidelines

Editorial Code of Conduct

Republishing

Mission

The Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA) aims to share a variety of perspectives from a broad array of APA members, to highlight the activities being undertaken by the APA, as well as provide a forum where the APA leadership and membership can communicate with one another more effectively.

The views and opinions expressed in the blog posts are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the APA or the APA Blog.

Contact

• Substack: @APABlog
• Twitter @APA_Blog
• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/blogapa
• Instagram @APA_Blog
• LinkedIn APA Blog
• Email blog@apaonline.org
• Blog post submission form
• Sign up for our Newsletter 

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Sabrina D. MisirHiralall is the author of Devotional Hindu Dance: A Return to the Sacred published with Palgrave MacMillan and Confronting Orientalism: A Self-Study of Educating Through Hindu Dance published with Sense Publishers. She also served as the lead editor for the text Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals published in the Routledge in Religion Series. She published several articles in scholarly journals. For instance, her article, (Un)Dressing to Unveil a Spiritual Self, is published in the Journal of Aesthetic Education. MisirHiralall uses Kuchipudi Indian classical Hindu dance to educate non-Hindus about Hinduism with postcolonialism in mind. MisirHiralall received her doctorate degree in the Pedagogy and Philosophy program at Montclair State University. She teaches a diversity of courses across campuses in higher education in philosophy, religion, women and gender studies, and education. MisirHiralall earned the Adjunct Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award 2015 from Middlesex County College. She currently teaches part time virtually for the Educational Foundations Department and Religion Department at Montclair State University.  She also teaches part time virtually for St. John’s University and Three Rivers Community College. She is a member of the American Education Research Association, the American Academy of Religion, and the American Philosophical Association. Sabrina served as editor of the Teaching Beat, Work/Life Balance Beat, and the Public Philosophy Beat for the APA Blog.

Editors

Richard B. Gibson is the Blog’s Research and Diversity/Inclusiveness Editor, as well as the editor of the Bioethics series. He is a Lecturer in Law at Aston University and holds a PhD in Bioethics & Medical Jurisprudence from the University of Manchester. Richard’s research interests typically concern human enhancement, emergent technologies, novel beings, disability theory, and body modification. His current work explores the ethical implications of various issues and topics, including cryopreservation, non-military conscription, ectogenesis, global health & distributive justice, the philosophy of death and nihilism, and the utilization of obfuscatory legal language. Follow Richard on X @RichardBGibson and read his news analyst work at The Prindle Post.

Smrutipriya Pattnaik is the Teaching Beat editor and also works on the syllabus showcase series. She completed her Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India.  Her expertise lies in the fields of Social and Political Philosophy. Her research revolves around utopia, social imagination, and politics, particularly in the context of the crisis and violence of the previous century. She focuses on investigating the collapse narrative of the socialist experiment and its impact on glorifying Liberal-Capitalist-Democratic societies. Driven by her commitment to equality, freedom, and justice, she aims to bring forth a complex and just society. Currently working on her first book titled “Politics, Utopia, and Social Imagination,” she also serves as the Series Editor for the Syllabus Showcase Series featured on the American Philosophical Association (APA) Blog. Beyond her academic pursuits, she finds joy in hiking and reading fiction and mythological books.

Matthew Clemons holds a B.A. in Philosophy in the Arts from Belmont University and is a soon-to-be graduate in Philosophy at Stony Brook University. He works primarily in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Philosophy of Religion. His doctoral thesis, entitled “Perceiving the Essence: A Husserlian Explication of Aristotle’s Defense of Non-Contradiction,”explicates Aristotle’s defense of the legitimacy of the Principle of Non-Contradiction in Book IV of his Metaphysics through Husserl’s phenomenology, and particularly through the genetic phenomenology of the 1920s.   

Copy Editors

Hunter McClure graduated from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2020 with a Bachelor’s degree in English and minors in Philosophy and Early Modern Studies. He is currently pursuing an MA in Liberal Arts at St. John’s College Graduate Institute in Santa Fe, NM. Platonism, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, and Heidegger’s late-period works have been formative influences on his perspective. His interests include the ethics and critique of technology, biblical religion, virtue and character, philosophical anthropology, hermeneutics, classical political philosophy, and postliberalism. He was previously Junior Fellow at the Institute on Religion and Public Life. When not reading, he may be found feeding his chickens or hammering away in his woodshop.

Cassandra Dellinger graduated from Susquehanna University in 2021 with Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Publishing and Editing. Her areas of interest are feminist philosophy, philosophy of the mind, and any in-depth analysis of Plato’s works. She has written a paper discussing the physical limitations plaguing auxiliary women within Plato’s kallipolis, and is particularly interested in the feminist analysis of Plato. She was previously the Senior Editor/Co-President of Susquehanna’s chapter of Her Campus, an online feminist magazine.

Social Media Coordinator

Billy Koutcher is a political analyst based in London. He holds an MSc in political theory from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in philosophy from American University. His areas of passion are existentialism, postructuralism, and feminist political theory, while his writing is focused around questions of meaning and identity and their political implications. He is currently serving as the Blog of the APA’s social media coordinator. You can read more of his work at dilemmasofmeaning.substack.com.

Series Editors

Lewis R. Gordon (Editor, Black Issues in Philosophy) is Professor of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; the 2018–2019 Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal; and Chair of Global Collaborations for the Caribbean Philosophical Association.  His most recent books are the forthcoming Fear of a Black Consciousness (Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the USA and Penguin Book in the UK) and, with Fernanda Frizzo Bragato, Geopolitics and Decolonization: Perspectives from the Global South (London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018). Follow Lewis on Facebook and Twitter @lewgord.

Thomas Meagher (Co-editor, Black Issues in Philosophy) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sam Houston State University. He specializes in Africana philosophy, philosophy of race, phenomenology, political theory, existentialism, and philosophy of science. Meagher earned his PhD at the University of Connecticut in 2018 and has previously been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Quinnipiac University, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, and a W. E. B. Du Bois Visiting Scholar Fellow at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A list of his publications can be found at his website.

William A. B. Parkhurst (Series Editor, Teaching and Learning Video Series) is a PhD candidate at the University of South Florida. His dissertation focuses on Nietzsche’s critique of the principle of identity. His research uses a historical and archival approach to evidence. His work has been published in Nietzsche-Studien, Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch, and several book chapters. He has conducted research internationally in collaboration with the New York Public Library, the University of Edinburgh Archives, the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, the Goethe-und-Schiller Archiv, the Schopenhauer-Archiv, and the Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt. His archival research earned him a residential doctoral fellowship at the Linda Hall Library and a residential fellowship with the Leo Baeck Institute. He received his MA in Philosophy for San Jose State University and his BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Alida Liberman (Series Editor, Women in Philosophy) is Professor of Philosophy at Coastal Carolina University. Her research interests are in feminism, political philosophy, applied ethics, and moral psychology. She uses feminist principles and methods to address ethical issues such as racial and gender discrimination, ois an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Her research interests include practical ethics, normative ethics, and the space in between, as well as feminist philosophy. She is also interested in philosophical pedagogy and how to make philosophy classrooms more inclusive. You can find out more about her work at www.alidaliberman.com  

Elisabeth Pacquette (Series Editor, Women in Philosophy) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She works at the intersection of social and political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and decolonial theory. Her book, titled Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), engages French political theorist Alain Badiou’s discussion of Négritude and the Haitian Revolution to develop a nuanced critique of his theory of emancipation. Currently, she is working on a monograph on the writings of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter. Her publications can be found in the following journals: Badiou Studies; Philosophy Today; Radical Philosophy Review; Hypatia; philoSOPHIA; and Philosophy Compass. She is the founder of the Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop. She enjoys rock climbing, camping, knitting, and walking the dogs!

Cara Greene (Series Editor, Syllabus Showcase Series) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College. She received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of New Mexico in 2023. Her dissertation, “Bloody Rationality: The Dialectic of Modern Reason and Sacrifice in Hegel, Adorno, and Horkheimer,” established a theory of modern sacrifice in the work of Hegel, Adorno, and Horkheimer by bringing together their analyses of the relationship between forms of Enlightenment thought and the political catastrophes. Cara’s areas of research focus are Social and Political Philosophy, 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, and Critical Theory, and she also teaches a variety of courses in the History of Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Feminist Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, and Aesthetics. She was recently published in Continental Philosophy Review and in an edited volume titled Objective Fictions: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism. Currently, she is writing a journal article on the genealogy of the philosophical concept of “cunning” and a chapter on sacrifice in the work of Simone de Beauvoir for an edited volume. Cara is completing a 3-year term on the APA Graduate Student Council and is currently an editor for the APA Blog’s “Syllabus Showcase” series. She also co-founded an ongoing interdisciplinary intercampus research group, the “California Ideology Project,” dedicated to studying the enduring paradoxical character of the Golden State.\

Charlie Taben (Series Editor, Philosophy and Technology) graduated from Middlebury College in 1983 with a BA in philosophy and has been a financial services executive for nearly 40 years. He studied at Harvard University during his junior year and says one of the highlights of his life was taking John Rawls’ class. Today, Charlie remains engaged with the discipline, focusing on Spinoza, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer. He has worked with the APA Blog, creating the Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology Series. Charlie has also performed volunteer work for the Philosophical Society of England. You can find Charlie on Twitter @gbglax

Sara Bizarro, (Series Editor, Philosophy of Film Series) teaches part-time at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Delaware Valley University, and Rowan College Burlington County. She co-authored a book Unconditional Basic Income, A Defense of Freedom (2019), the book won the best essay first prize from the Portuguese Philosophy Society. She also recently published Free Will and A Clockwork Orange: A Polythetic View of Free Will, (2022) and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft on Philosophy Now(2021)She has authored many other articles and book chapters on many topics, from the philosophy of film to acting, and Wittgenstein. She teaches a class called Ethical Issues in the Movies and is developing a website with her students, see more at www.ethicsinfilm.net. You can learn more about her work at www.sarabizarro.net.

Jelena Markovic (Series Editor, Current Events in Public Philosophy) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Maison de la Création et de l’Innovation (MaCI) affiliated with the Centre for Philosophy of Memory and the Performance Lab at the University of Grenoble. One strand of her research focuses on grief, particularly how profound or “transformative” grief alters a person’s sense of what is significant in the world and calls on them to reorganize themselves as an agent. A second strand of her research focuses on the philosophical psychology of attention, particularly affect-biased attention (attention to emotionally salient stimuli). She received her PhD from the University of British Columbia.

Piyali Mitra (Series Editor, Ethical Issues in Public Philosophy) is working as director and secretary of The International Centre for Applied Ethics and Public Affairs (ICAEPA), Sheffield, United Kingdom remotely since February 2023. ICAEPA is trying to provide a dedicated platform to promote ethical decision particularly in public affairs to curb exploitation and promote transparency in medical research and advance moral practice in public philosophy. She has her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Calcutta, India. Her research involved the struggle over the role of women in the assisted reproductive technologies, moral judgement, and decision-making, as well as cognitive and psychological study of different religious practices. She published in many a reputed journals as Journal of Religion and Health, The American Journal of Bioethics and has her chapters in books like The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics published by Taylor and Francis Group and edited by Purushottama Bilimoria and Amy Rayner and, also in the book entitled Indigenous and Local Water Knowledge, Values and Practices Edited by Basu, M and DasGupta, R. published by Springer, Singapore. She is an alumnus of Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK. She has been a visiting scholar and is a participant in the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, of the Catholic University of America McLean Center for the Study of Culture and Values, Washington DC., USA. She is a member of the International Association of Bioethics, and is the Deputy Editor of Asian Bioethics Review, run under the auspices of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics in the National University of Singapore (NUS). This position is funded by Wellcome Grants.

Ionut Untea (Series Editor, Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy) is a Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Science of Southeast University, Nanjing. He obtained his French doctorate at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) in Paris in 2013, and during his PhD and postdoctoral years taught at several academic institutions in France. His first postdoctoral experience was at the University of Geneva in the academic year 2014-2015. In 2015, he was also invited as a Visiting Scholar to the five-week seminar Religion, Reconciliation and Peace at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. More recently (2021), he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, and in 2022-2023 spent nine months as a scholar-in-residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. His experience in Solitude allowed Ionut to connect with wonderful individuals, of very diverse profiles and orientations and coming from all over the world, most of them from underdeveloped and developing countries, and each one with their own amazing life story. This has been inspiring for Ionut, both in his work as a scholar and in the broadening of his own horizons. Ionut has published essays in many academic journals, including The Monist, The Pluralist, Philosophy East & West, Ethical Perspectives, Journal of European Studies, The American Journal of Semiotics, Philosophical Forum, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, and European Journal of English Studies. When not engaged in academic work, Ionut dedicates himself to bringing joy to his small family of three by cooking special dishes, making small surprises to lighten up boring days, and, a bit more seriously, helping his daughter make progress with languages, such as English, German and Romanian, become acquainted with her diverse heritage (Chinese, Romanian and beyond), discover her inner talents and cultivate her creativity. As a member of an Eastern European peasant family, Ionut is deeply committed to countering the negative perception that philosophy is something reserved for elites and is disconnected from ‘real’ problems of daily life. Ionut is expecting proposals for posts from people from all over the world and aiming at covering the gaps between the everyday and the academic and scientific spheres of life.

Eric Wilkinson (Series Editor, Philosophy and Law Series) is a PhD candidate and Vanier Scholar at McGill University. He has previously received a BA in Philosophy and a BSocSc in Political Science from the University of Ottawa, an MA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, and an MA in Political Science from York University. His research interests include metaethics, normative ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. He also enjoys writing on history of philosophy, philosophy of art, and Canadian politics. You can learn more about his work here.

Helena Moradi (Series Editor, Philosophy and Law Series) is a legal scholar and philosopher at Emory Law. Her current research within the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative centers on vulnerability theory, specifically its integration and application in legal philosophy. Her research and writing are particularly focused on the theoretical and normative dimensions of law and the implications of vulnerability theory. Dr. Moradi holds a law degree from Stockholm University, Humboldt University in Berlin, and a PhD from Tsinghua University in China. Prior to joining Emory, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University School of law.

Virginia Moscetti (Series Editor, Current Events in Public Philosophy) graduated from Swarthmore College in 2023 with Highest Honors in Philosophy and English Literature. She is currently pursuing an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy at the London School of Economics with a focus on the relationship between belief and political legitimacy. Virginia has strong interests in Kant and post-Kantian 20th-century European philosophy, especially Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. Her undergraduate thesis, which examines the literary implications of AI through phenomenological models of meaning and representation, is forthcoming in Reinvention: an International Journal of Undergraduate Research. She is also an Associate Podcaster for The Creative Process Podcast and is currently working on a project that uses Nietzsche’s parable of “The Madman” to complicate Kant’s views on sovereignty.

Martina Valković (Series Editor, Perspectives on Democracy) is a Research Assistant at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, where she is currently completing her PhD, and a visiting researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her PhD research centres around the ontological and methodological assumptions of certain cultural evolutionary theories and their problematic social and political implications. She has previously also researched norms and conventions.

Alexandra Frye (Series Editor) graduated from the University of Glasgow with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. After 15 years living and working across Asia-Pacific in the advertising industry, she returned to philosophy to complete a master’s degree at the University of Bristol. Her research focused on technology and ethics and the effects of technology on individual and collective epistemology. Since then, Alex has been based in Connecticut and has been working as a responsible AI advocate and consultant and is connected to many groups in the US who are committed to driving the development of technology towards the good of society.

Huw Davies (Series Editor, Loneliness and Philosophy) holds an MA in History of Political Thought and Intellectual History from University College London, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford. He currently works as a schoolteacher in London, having previously worked as a Police Officer in the Metropolitan Police Service. His areas of interest include the concepts of republican liberty and relational equality, as well as the works of Hannah Arendt.

Samuel A. Taylor (Series Editor, Professor Reflection Series) is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at Tuskegee University where he has taught since 2018. Before starting at Tuskegee, he was a philosophy instructor at Auburn University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota – Duluth. His main research focuses on issues at the intersection of epistemology and the philosophy of mind. His writing has been published in various venues including Synthese, Episteme, Acta Analytica, and Southwest Philosophy Review. He received his PhD from the University of Iowa in 2013 and his dissertation defended an internalist theory of justification that used the traditional concept of acquaintance to develop a solution to worries of epistemic bootstrapping. His courses introduce students to a broad range of philosophical issues including skepticism, echo chambers, neuroscientific challenges to free will, AI ethics, epistemic injustice, and more. His teaching focuses on developing an inclusive environment for engaging in philosophy and emphasizes how philosophical skills are relevant to students’ success outside the classroom. You can find more information about his research and teaching at his website www.samuel-a-taylor.com or by following his profile on PhilPeople.

Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Series Editor, Question-Focused Pedagogy) is a Professor of Philosophy at Elon University and works at the intersection of political theory, liberatory pedagogies, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He won the inaugural (2017) teaching award given by the American Philosophical Association, the American Association of Philosophy Teachers and the Teaching Philosophy Association, now called the David W. Concepción Prize for Excellence in Teaching Philosophy. He won Elon’s Daniels-Danieley Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018. He has twice won the Lenssen Prize, awarded by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers for the best essay on philosophy teaching and learning over a two-year period. With Anthony Weston, he is author of Thinking Through Questions: A Concise Invitation to Critical, Expansive, and Philosophical Inquiry (Hackett Publishing, 2020) and is currently writing Philosophy for the Rest of Us, a book that introduces students to the most foundational skills in philosophy (Flip Publishing, expected in late 2024).

Sabina García Ortega (Series Editor, Undergraduate Philosophy Club) is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto pursuing a double major in English and Philosophy. Sabina’s philosophical interests span feminist, Marxist, and race political theories, as well as epistemology, aesthetics, and existentialism. Notably, she presented her paper “Existence of Thought – Descartes’ Cogito Argument” at the 25th Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference and subsequently published it in The Oracle‘s summer 2023 issue 17 (York University’s Undergraduate Philosophical Review Journal). More recently, her work titled “The Medium of Film: Uncanniness and Narrative Hyper-Realism” was featured in A Priori‘s summer 2024 issue 7 (Brown University’s Undergraduate Philosophy Journal).

Ike Morton (Series Editor, Undergraduate Philosophy Club) is currently enrolled at Queen’s University, Canada, as an undergraduate student and is finishing his Bachelor’s degree of Philosophy. He aspires to pursue a Master’s degree in Ancient Philosophy, with a focus particularly on Epicureanism and Aristotelianism. Throughout his undergraduate studies, Ike has found himself involved in discussions of how Platonism, among other ancient schools of thought, can be applied to our daily lives. The idea of objective morality and its questionable existence keeps Ike motivated to continue his studies in Philosophy. Outside of academia, Ike tutors young students who want to learn music production software and has been creating music himself for nearly a decade.

Isaac Raymond (Series Editor, Graduate Student Reflection Series)  is a teaching assistant and graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Arkansas. He holds a Bachelor of Science (2024) in Interdisciplinary Studies and Theological Studies from Harding University, where he focused on philosophy through literature, comparative religion, linguistics, and computer science. His undergraduate studies culminated in a comparative linguistic, literary, and philosophical analysis of De Rerum Natura and the Platform Sutra. His philosophical interests include semiotics, semantics, narratology, speech act theory, comparative philosophy of religion, Mesopotamian philology, Assyriology, Kafka, and Deleuze and Guattari. He has presented work on poetic depictions of verbal microaggressions (North Carolina Philosophical Society 2024), Epicurean theology (Alpha Chi National 2024), justice and desire in Kafka’s The Trial (Harding University Undergraduate Research Conference 2024), and medieval Chinese Buddhist philosophy (Harding University Undergraduate Research Conference 2023) at national and local conferences. He plans to pursue a PhD in Philosophy following the completion of his Master’s degree.

Adam Zweber (Series Editor, AI and Teaching) earned his PhD in Philosophy from Stanford in 2023 and is currently a lecturer at UNC-Wilmington. He is interested in questions that run the gamut of value theory from metaethical naturalism to the ethics of AI use in education. His research on such topics has been published in Philosophical Studies, European Journal of Philosophy, and Teaching Philosophy. He is especially passionate about getting students to “see” philosophical questions as they arise outside the classroom. When he’s outside the classroom he enjoys pondering philosophy while painting, clothes-making, and marveling at the Sonoran Desert. 

Brianna Larson (Series Editor, Graduate Student Chronicles) is a Ph.D. student in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cincinnati and received a BA in philosophy from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She is also completing a graduate certificate in museum studies. Her primary research interests currently live at the intersection of topics in well-being, identity, and social philosophy and philosophy of science, particularly psychology and cognitive science. She actively participates in her university’s Philosophy for Children Outreach Group and UC’s Center for Public Engagement with Science. As such, she has secondary research interests in pedagogy and the scholarship of teaching and learning. When not doing philosophy, Brianna enjoys cooking, running, being outdoors, and traveling. You can find out more about her and her work on her website.

Past Editors-in-Chief

Nathan Eckstrand (nathaneckstrand@apaonline.org) is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University. He was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at Fort Hays State University and Marian University, and before that a Merton Teaching Fellow at Mercyhurst University in Erie, PA.  His dissertation, written under Fred Evans and defended in September 2014, is called “The Event of Revolution: Theorizing the Relationship between the State and Radical Change” and studies concepts of revolution from the Early Modern period to the present day.  Nathan is also co-editor of Philosophy and the Return of Violence: Essays from this Widening Gyre, and has published articles on Deleuze, Foucault, Fanon, and Said.  In addition to publishing his dissertation and writing articles about race, Marxism, and social contract theory, Nathan is working on a reader of theories of revolution.  Nathan’s primary research project at the moment is the question of how to conceive of revolution and resistance without making revolution advocate for one type of political state.  Nathan received his PhD from Duquesne University in 2014, his MA from Boston College in 2009, and his BA from Earlham College in 2005.  Follow Nathan on Twitter @NathanEckstrand.

Partners

The Blog of the APA is proud to be a part of content-sharing relationships with several other organizations.  Below you can find out information about our current partnerships.  If you are interested in pursuing a partnership with the Blog of the APA, please contact the lead editor at blog@apaonline.org.

Aeon is a not-for-profit digital magazine that publishes opinion pieces, essays, videos, and conversations.  The magazine was founded in London by Paul and Brigid Hains and has offices in London, Melbourne, and New York.  They ask the big questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on philosophy, science, psychology, health, society, technology, culture, and the arts, and are committed to big ideas, serious enquiry, and a humane worldview.  Find out more in our interview with Aeon Editor Sam Dresser.

The Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) was founded in 2008 by philosopher and award-winning broadcaster, Hilary Lawson. It aims to invigorate our lives and culture by placing big ideas and critical thinking at the heart of public life. Through the digital platform IAI TV and a programme of events including debates, retreats, and the world’s largest philosophy and music festival HowTheLightGetsIn, the IAI generates and incubates original and challenging ideas and conveys these to the national and international public.  Ideas are alive and evolving. At the edge there is rarely consensus. That’s why ideas matter – because they are in dispute. When they turn into knowledge and are recycled in textbooks they are already dead. And that’s why debates, rather than lectures, are at the centre of the IAI’s program.

The National Humanities Alliance (NHA) was founded in 1981 to promote and advocate for the humanities.  The NHA’s member organizations and institutions support its aims of advancing the study of humanities.  The NHA pursues these goals by efforts to increase support for funding with the executive and legislative branches of the federal government, advocating for “policies that advance humanities research, programming, preservation, and teaching”,  developing policy initiatives in consultation with its member organizations, and promoting appreciation for the humanities among the general public.

Oxford University Press boasts cutting-edge scholarship in philosophy including monographs, handbooks, readers, and textbooks. With over 300 journals, Oxford publishes key philosophy journals such as Analysis, Mind, The Monist, and The Philosophical Quarterly. Students and professionals worldwide can take advantage of outstanding products like Oxford Reference, Oxford Scholarship Online, and Oxford Handbooks Onlinefor access to millions of searchable articles, chapters, and reference entries. For the latest news, resources, and insights from the Philosophy team, follow us on Twitter @OUPPhilosophy or visit our philosophy landing page.

PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization) advocates and supports introducing philosophy to children and youth through programs, resource-sharing and the development of a national network of those working in pre-college philosophy. PLATO promotes philosophy classes for all pre-college students, including those in classrooms least likely to have access to academic enrichment programs. Bringing together the education and philosophy communities, PLATO celebrates diversity within the philosophy classroom and endorses a wide variety of philosophical approaches and methods. PLATO’s initiatives include a biennial national conference, a high school essay contest, the journal Questions: Philosophy for Young People, and more.

Filosofía en la Red is a philosophical dissemination platform in Spanish coordinated by Miguel Ángel García Calderón (@miguelangelgc). It seeks to create a plural space for dialogue. Started in 2014, the main motivation is to bring together, in a plural environment and with rigor and respect, texts that encourage and promote philosophy on the network, generating spaces for debate within a framework of tolerance and respect.

Created by Clifford Sosis in 2015, What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? is a website dedicated to publishing original in-depth autobiographical interviews with philosophers. These poignant and delightful dialogues show the role our idiosyncrasies and similarities play in philosophical theorizing, and how philosophical ideas influences our lives. The long-form conversations provide detailed portraits of a wide variety of philosophers, giving us a window into their minds and maybe the nature of philosophy itself. You can read excerpts and previews from Cliff’s interviews on the Blog here and support Cliff’s project here.

The Philosophers’ Magazine publishes philosophy that’s clear, thought-provoking, and relevant. Our contributors are mainly professional philosophers who care about good writing and about being understood.

Each issue features a mix of essays, interviews, opinions, columns, news and reviews. Visit their website here.

Daily Philosophy aims to make philosophy more accessible to the public, both by providing introductory articles on the history, areas and problems of philosophy and by applying philosophical thought to everyday problems. Visit their website here.

Community Guidelines

Commenting

The commenting policy of the Blog of the APA is for commenters to post under their public identity with a verifiable e-mail address.  If you have concerns about the perspectives that might be excluded from comment threads by disallowing anonymous/pseudonymous comments, please contact us so that we can consider ways to give voice to those perspectives. Comments that do not adhere to the following guidelines will be removed:

Do

• Treat others with respect.
• Be clear and concise.
• Be generous and constructive.
• Make relevant comments.

Don’t

• Use hate speech, attack other users on the basis of race, sex, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or medical condition.
• Personally attack another user. Bullying, harassing, or threatening a fellow user is strictly prohibited.
• Share intellectual property that is not yours. Make sure you have the rights to anything you post.
• Pretend you’re someone else. Do not assume another person’s identity.
• Post a user’s personal information that he or she does not wish to have on the site.

Editorial Code of Conduct

The following is a summary of our editorial principles and practices, which apply to all sections of the APA Blog, and to all Editorial Staff.

Professionalism

• Exercise good judgment and professionalism at all times.
• Communicate and conduct all work with honesty, integrity, respect, fairness, objectivity, and in good faith. This means not engaging in any conduct likely to cause offense to a reasonable person. Comments that would be regarded as unprofessional in a normal academic context, wherever they are made in electronic media or otherwise, are incompatible with serving as an APA Blog Editor.
• Support the open and civil exchange of views, even views that an Editor disagrees with.
• Be cautious when engaging in political and other outside activities that may compromise integrity or impartiality, or may damage credibility of the APA Blog.
• Avoid undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering information.

Public statements

• Editors are not authorized to speak for the APA or the APA Blog. If contacted by the press about an issue related to the Blog, refer the person to the Lead Editor.
• If posting or commenting on a blog, website, or social media, be clear that although an Editor can offer perspective, Editors do not speak for the APA Blog.
• The APA and the APA Blog are not responsible for any legal action that may be taken against or by an Editor who speaks outside of his or her professional capacity, except as required by law.

Editorial decisions

• Avoid and disclose conflicts of interest—real, potential, or perceived.
• Make informed and non-partisan editorial decisions, which means that, before making a decision, Editors must consider all material reasonably available to them, follow appropriate procedures, and consult with relevant committees, staff, and experts. Editors should not unduly reject a post that criticizes the work of a friend or colleague.
• Balance the need for freedom of expression against potential harm. Show compassion for those who may be affected.
• Clearly distinguish opinion from advertising and avoid hybrids that blur the lines between the two.
• Be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.
• Inform readers about controversial topics in a way that encourages critical thought.

Confidentiality

• Maintain the confidentiality of information provided to the Editorial Team and of editorial discussions, except as required by law.

Communication and meetings

• Respond to APA-related communications in a timely manner.
• Fully engage in the activities and responsibilities of the Blog. Commit to making a good faith effort to attend and engage in all Blog meetings.

Membership

• Pay APA membership dues on time (by September 1) and in full for each year of their term of service.

Republishing

All rights for reprint and republication of APA Blog pieces belong with the author of the pieces. Please send any requests for republication to the APA Blog in addition to the author.

You must attribute the article to the APA Blog and you must include the author’s name in your republication. Excerpts, links, and quotes may be used provided there is full and clear credit given to the author and the APA Blog with a direct link back to the original content. Content may not be sold or offered for sale.