Submissions

The Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA) provides a venue for APA members to share their perspectives and experiences on a variety of issues, and we are invested in making sure the blog’s content addresses your interests. To that end, the editorial team seeks proposals, submissions, and suggestions for posts for the blog. This includes topics that you’d like to read about as well as specific pitches for posts that you might like to write or see written. The editorial team accepts pitches, submissions, and suggestions on a rolling basis. Our policy is to publish work authored by APA members; however, we may consider submissions from nonmembers in unusual circumstances or on special topics. If you have an idea, please let us know via the submission form, and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

The types of submissions we are currently seeking include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Diversity and Inclusion (Michael Crawford, editor): Philosophy remains one of the least diverse academic disciplines. This topic seeks to highlight marginalized voices and includes posts on the challenges facing philosophers from traditionally underrepresented groups and exploring strategies for making the discipline more inclusive on the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels. The APA Blog aims to continue ongoing discussions and begin new ones.
• Public Philosophy (Martina Valković, editor): This topic explores philosophy in the public interest that is, philosophy that informs civic debate and civic life. Posts in this topic use philosophical techniques, methods, and concepts, addressing issues of civic import in ways that are accessible to the general public.
• Research (Michael Crawford, editor): Are you working on a project that you would like to let the philosophical community know about? If you have a call for papers for conferences, special journal issues, edited collections, or a recently published collection or manuscript, or if you know of anyone who is doing some really interesting work, please let us know.
• Teaching (Smrutipriya Pattnaik, editor): Have you had success with a novel approach in the classroom? Share your results. Or do you have an upcoming class that you aren’t entirely confident on how to approach? Let us know so that we can crowdsource strategies. Approaches or concerns about pedagogy, assessment tools, or course design are all welcome
• Work/Life Balance (Smrutipriya Pattnaik, editor): Life and work can be stressful. How do you cope? Do you have interests and hobbies? Are you a “multipotentialite” with diverse passions? Share your strategies and diversions with us! On the blog, we’ll be including profiles of APA members that spotlight what captures their interest not only inside the office but also outside it.
• Others (including Issues in Philosophy and Service): If you’d like to write about topics that philosophers or those interested in philosophy deal with but that don’t fall into any of the above categories, please reach out. We’ll happily consider your pitch.

We also have a number of ongoing special series, including:

Diversity and Inclusion

• Black Issues in Philosophy (Lewis Gordon and Thomas Meagher, series editors): Offers announcements, discussions, critical reviews, opinionated statements (op-eds), and philosophical suggestions, ideas, or explorations relevant to the status of philosophers of African descent and readers interested in such issues. This series is committee-appointed.
• Women in Philosophy (Alida Liberman and Elisabeth Paquette, series editors): Informs people throughout the field of philosophy about new ideas and interesting events relevant to the study of gender, serving as a place of dialogue for on the topic. This series is committee-appointed.

Public philosophy

• Current Events in Public Philosophy Series (Michael Crawford and Jelena Markovic, series editors): Explores how important contemporary events may involve tension between our right to self-determine and our responsibilities to those around us, and how the social, political, and ethical conflicts between the two poles can have important philosophical ramifications, which often expand beyond our initial intuitions.
• Ethical Dilemmas in Philosophy Series (Benjamin Randolph, Piyali Mitra, Ionut Untea, series editors): Introduces tough ethical dilemmas that philosophers may wrestle with.
• Everyday Lifestyle Series (Laura Engels, Cara Cummings-Coughlin, series editors): Shares articles on topics such as food, vacation, and hobbies.
• Law and Philosophy Series (Eric Wilkinson, Helena Moradi, series editors): Examines philosophical questions related to the legal sphere.
• Philosophy of Film Series (Sara Bizaro, Owen Griffiths, series editors): Provides philosophical analysis of films that may appeal to the philosophical community.

Research

• Bioethics Series (Michael Crawford, series editor): Explores the intersection between philosophy and biology in all its forms—from medicine to ecology, human enhancement to mass extinction.
• Recently Published Book Spotlight (Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen, series editor): Informs readers about new monographs by interviewing their authors.

Teaching

• Graduate Student Reflection Series (Maya Lomeli, series editor): Provides opportunities for graduate students to discuss their experiences while pursuing graduate studies in the field of philosophy.
• Professor Reflection Series (Samuel Taylor, series editor): A place for professors to reflect on philosophy courses that they have taught.
• Syllabus Showcase Series (Cara Greene and Smrutipriya Paitnaik, series editors): Provides a chance for members to share their favorite classes, and it acts as a repository of readings, assignments, and teaching techniques for others to deploy.
• Teaching and Learning Video Series (William Parkhurst, series editor): Features tools for teaching philosophy through videos—especially funny ones.
• Undergraduate Philosophy Club Series (Sabina Garcia, series editor): Features undergraduate philosophy clubs across the nation. This series is designed to encourage undergraduate opportunities in philosophy.
• Question-Focused Pedagogy (Stephen Bloch-Schulman, series editor): Looks at how to ask questions effectively.

Others

• Inside the APA Series (Erin Shepherd, series editor): Offers insight into what happens behind the scenes in the American Philosophical Association. This series is committee-appointed.
• Meet the APA Series (Erin Shepherd, series editor): Introduces the public to individuals at APA headquarters. This series is committee-appointed.
• Navigating (Living) Philosophy (Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen, series editor): Invites seasoned philosophers to share critical reflections on emergent and institutionalized shapes of and encounters within philosophy with the goal of helping young academics and students navigate philosophy today.
• Perspectives on Democracy (Martina Valković, series editor): Aims to shine a light on democracy from different historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives, with an eye firmly on democracy’s future. By doing so, it hopes to contribute to democratic thinking and practice at this crucial moment.
• Philosophy and Technology (Charlie Taben, series editor): Explores philosophical issues related to technology and its development, including ethical, ontological, and epistemological implications.
• Reports from Abroad (Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen, series editor): Features reflections from APA members researching or studying “non-Eurocentric” philosophy abroad. It explores how local institutions and global contexts shape the possibilities of research, speech, and our visions of philosophy; it seeks to complicate immediate conceptions of “abroad” given our globalized world.
• Tech and Society (Alexandra Frye, series editor): Explores compelling and challenging developments in AI from a multidisciplinary perspective. It includes interviews with industry experts on technology and emerging innovations that may threaten human and social values, and it engages philosophers to provide conceptual clarity and rigorous analysis, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of these issues and the necessary considerations surrounding them.

Past Series Open to Submissions

While the following series have ended, we still welcome submissions on these topics:

• Early Career Research Spotlight of the Research beat introduces blog readers to new research through interviews with early-career philosophers on their work.
• Graduate Student Chronicles of the Issues in Philosophy Beat invites graduate students to reflect on aspects of their graduate experience and the challenges they have faced. It seeks to highlight diverse perspectives on the graduate student experience.
• Philosophy in the Contemporary World is aimed at exploring the various ways philosophy can be used to discuss issues of relevance to our society. There are no methodological, topical, or doctrinal limitations to this series; philosophers of all persuasions are invited to submit posts regarding issues of concern to them.We look forward to reading about your ideas for the blog! Please submit them via the submission form.

List of Series Editors

• Alex Meaden (editor, Tech & and Society)
• André Penne-Firma (editor Reports from Abroad)
• Anna McConnell (co-editor, Everyday Lifestyle)
• Brianna Larson (co-editor, Graduate Student Chronicles)
• Charlie Taben (editor, Technology in Philosophy)
• Elisabeth Paquette (co-editor, Women in Philosophy)
• Eric Wilkinson (editor, Law and Philosophy)
• Evelyn Rose Maude (co-editor, Graduate Student Chronicles)
• Giacomo Figa-Talamanca (co-editor, Everyday Lifestyle)
• Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (editor, Democracy as a Way of Life)
• Lina Salazar (translator, Filosofía en la Red)
• Michael Crawford (editor, Bioethics, Recently Published Book Spotlight)
• Miguel Ángel (editor, Filosofía en la Red)
• Nathan Eckstrand (co-editor, Philosophy of Film)
• Sara Bizarro (co-editor, Philosophy of Film)
• Shadi Heidarifar (co-editor, Women in Philosophy)
• Untea Ionut (editor, Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy)
• Virginia Moscetti (editor, Current Events in Public Philosophy)